[Visualpython-users] help with moveable python CD

[Joe H. <hea...@ct...>]

VPython has been installed in one of our computer labs but our IT  
guys used TQCrunas. At least it seems to be running properly. Last  
night I created a Moveable Python CD on my XP box as home as per  
instructions previously posted here. The CD seemed to work correctly  
at home. I brought it to work today and discovered that the computers  
in our computer labs have the CD drives locked down and therefore  
will not recognize CDs. (Can anyone explain the logic buying  
reasonably functional computers and then locking them down so they  
can't be used in computer literacy courses?) So now I won't be able  
to provide my students with quick VPython updates.

When I try running IDLE from the CD in my Win2k box at work, I get  
the following error message:

E:\movpy-0.4.6-2.4-standard\movpy\movpyw.exe.log could not be opened:  
permission denied

It's attempting to open a file on the CD but this didn't happen on  
the XP box at home. What accounts for the difference?

Now, when I try to run IDLE from the CD on a computer in my regular  
classroom (in which the CD drives are enabled for use by my astronomy  
classes), I get no error messages at all but nothing executes. I've  
no idea what to look for to fix the problem. I've tried everything  
labeled "IDLE" that I could find and no luck.

What would I need to do to execute the VPython version of IDLE (IDLE  
Fork?) on the CD?

Joe Heafner
heafnerj(at)ctc(dot)net