From: Arthur <ajs...@op...> - 2003-03-04 03:32:47
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Proof of concept: Ruth Chabay's Tower of Hanoi VPython demo as a Windows executable. http://www.dstoys.org/Members/ajsiegel/TowerSetup/file_view The executable created using Python distutils together with py2exe. Uses Inno Setup to create an easy install, unistall of the executable and dependencies. (Wanted to get hands-on with it) Even used the VPython export to Povray facility to create a cute desktop icon for it. Button 1 pressed to pick and move the rings. Art |
From: Kirby U. <ur...@qw...> - 2003-03-04 03:47:37
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At 10:32 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Arthur wrote: >Proof of concept: > >Ruth Chabay's Tower of Hanoi VPython demo as a Windows executable. > >http://www.dstoys.org/Members/ajsiegel/TowerSetup/file_view I'll give that a different URL: http://www.dstoys.com/content/education/index_html/Visual%20Arts/Interactive dstoys.org is a community portal requiring an account. However, once a community resource is published, it becomes world-accessible through dstoys.com When you submitted this resource for publication, it went into a workflow queue. An editor had to give final approval -- in this case me. So now people may check it out without needing to join dstoys.org (although that's certainly an option, for those with more than a casual interest in design science). Note that all this is handled through Plone, which sits atop the Content Management Framework (CMF) which sits atop Zope, the web application server -- which sits atop Python! (which sits atop C which...) Kirby |
From: Arthur <ajs...@op...> - 2003-03-04 03:58:35
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> I'll give that a different URL: > > http://www.dstoys.com/content/education/index_html/Visual%20Arts/Interactive > > dstoys.org is a community portal requiring an account. However, once a > community resource is published, it becomes world-accessible through > dstoys.com > > When you submitted this resource for publication, it went into a workflow > queue. An editor had to give final approval -- in this case me. Nice to have an in with the editor. I wondered about this, since this is the first time I tried to publish anything at dstoys. Tested it by signing out, and reentering the url, and it let me through. Cookie? > So now people may check it out without needing to join dstoys.org (although that's > certainly an option, for those with more than a casual interest in design > science). Thanks for making it available. > > Note that all this is handled through Plone, which sits atop the Content > Management Framework (CMF) which sits atop Zope, the web application > server -- which sits atop Python! (which sits atop C which...) I'm not generally a wiki type guy. but I'm finding this interface really, really nice. And have just begun to explore some of its possiblities. Art |
From: Bruce S. <bas...@un...> - 2003-03-04 03:52:44
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Cool! And only a megabyte. One oddity is that at least on my Windows machine the file downloaded without the .exe extension, which I then had to add manually....? Bruce Sherwood ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...> To: <vis...@li...> Cc: <ed...@py...> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:32 PM Subject: [Visualpython-users] Towers of Hanoi > Proof of concept: > > Ruth Chabay's Tower of Hanoi VPython demo as a Windows executable. > > http://www.dstoys.org/Members/ajsiegel/TowerSetup/file_view > > The executable created using Python distutils together with py2exe. > > Uses Inno Setup to create an easy install, unistall of the executable and > dependencies. (Wanted to get hands-on with it) > > Even used the VPython export to Povray facility to create a cute desktop > icon for it. > > Button 1 pressed to pick and move the rings. > > Art > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX > and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com > _______________________________________________ > Visualpython-users mailing list > Vis...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/visualpython-users > > |
From: Arthur <ajs...@op...> - 2003-03-04 04:09:55
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> Cool! And only a megabyte. > > One oddity is that at least on my Windows machine the file downloaded > without the .exe extension, which I then had to add manually....? > Purely a matter of my misunderstanding the interface to uploading a file at dstoys - to which I am new. Trying to get it fixed. Art |
From: Arthur <ajs...@op...> - 2003-03-04 14:35:08
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[Bruce] > Cool! And only a megabyte. Of the megabyte, probably about 80% is essentially a runtime environment - which theoretically is a one time download. If one could educate a Setup script sufficiently to look for the environment, the distribution of even the most complex VPython constructions could be done as an executable of < 250k. An eye blink at decent bandwidth. Setup could only go back for the "runtime" if it doesn't find it on the machine. Not terribly different from what is normal for Flash or Java applets. Probably the best available alternative to a Java based VPython - in some ways better, I think. Of course, the Windows only aspect is a big downside. I won't even try to approach what would be necessary to make this a true crossplatfrom capability. Art |