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[Visualpython-users] continued difficulties in OS X

[Lenore H. <lh...@si...>]

Thank you Aaron, Martin, and Gary for your help.  Martin's suggestion  
to look at "fink describe visual-py23"  (which turns into "show  
package info" in Fink Commander) got me the piece I needed.  I have  
to manually start X11 and then use /sw/bin/vpython.

I'm using OS X 10.4.3, X11 1.1 - XFree86 4.4.0 with an Apple  
copyright as well, and visual-py23 2.1.9-6.

I do have to use /sw/bin/vpython rather than vpython as X11  
apparently doesn't have /sw/bin in the path and I haven't (yet) fixed  
that.

I'm working my way not through VPython_Intro.pdf.  I note that on the  
Mac, it is cmd-mouse to move the camera and option-mouse to zoom as  
opposed to shift and cmd respectively as noted in the file.

Thanks again.

Lenore

Re: [Visualpython-users] continued difficulties in OS X

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Actually, the mouse button bindings can be chosen by you. It is a 
feature of the X window system that the end user gets to specify how to 
interpret mouse+keyset; I think it's a menu option to get to this. 
Apparently the bindings mention in the tutorial refer to an older system.

Bruce Sherwood

Lenore Horner wrote:

> Thank you Aaron, Martin, and Gary for your help.  Martin's suggestion  
> to look at "fink describe visual-py23"  (which turns into "show  
> package info" in Fink Commander) got me the piece I needed.  I have  
> to manually start X11 and then use /sw/bin/vpython.
>
> I'm using OS X 10.4.3, X11 1.1 - XFree86 4.4.0 with an Apple  
> copyright as well, and visual-py23 2.1.9-6.
>
> I do have to use /sw/bin/vpython rather than vpython as X11  
> apparently doesn't have /sw/bin in the path and I haven't (yet) fixed  
> that.
>
> I'm working my way not through VPython_Intro.pdf.  I note that on the  
> Mac, it is cmd-mouse to move the camera and option-mouse to zoom as  
> opposed to shift and cmd respectively as noted in the file.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Lenore
>
>
>
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Re: [Visualpython-users] continued difficulties in OS X

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 13:21 -0600, Lenore Horner wrote:
> Thank you Aaron, Martin, and Gary for your help.  Martin's suggestion  
> to look at "fink describe visual-py23"  (which turns into "show  
> package info" in Fink Commander) got me the piece I needed.  I have  
> to manually start X11 and then use /sw/bin/vpython.

If anyone knows how to start Apple's X server from the command-line,
that action can be integrated to /sw/bin/vpython.

-Jonathan

Re: [Visualpython-users] continued difficulties in OS X

[Aaron T. <ti...@ma...>]

open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app

will start X11.

As far as /sw/bin not being in the path, just create a symbolic link  
to vpython in /usr/bin. To create a symbolic link, use

ln -s /sw/bin/vpython vpython

Now, typing "vpython" will open vpython.

Generally, I edit my python files in a text editor BBedit (an often  
used programmer's editor for the Mac) and run the python files from  
the command line. However, if you type "python filename.py" then you  
will run the Mac python installation which doesn't have visual. You  
have to run the Fink distribution of python. I created a symbolic  
link called "py" that points to /sw/bin/vpython2.3.

That allows me to run my python programs from the command line by  
typing "py filename.py".

On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 13:21 -0600, Lenore Horner wrote:
>> Thank you Aaron, Martin, and Gary for your help.  Martin's suggestion
>> to look at "fink describe visual-py23"  (which turns into "show
>> package info" in Fink Commander) got me the piece I needed.  I have
>> to manually start X11 and then use /sw/bin/vpython.
>
> If anyone knows how to start Apple's X server from the command-line,
> that action can be integrated to /sw/bin/vpython.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
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