[Visualpython-users] Re: Windows 2000 with VPython

My physics student provided lots of details (see below). I vaguely remember 
having heard of this bug -- that IDLE comes up on Windows, and one can 
edit, but F5 does nothing. Does anyone recall seeing this before, and what 
the problem was? Can it be that the networking on a particular computer 
could be messed up in such a way that IDLE can't open a socket to start the 
other process?

Bruce Sherwood

--On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 13:25 -0400 William Chase 
<wc...@an...> wrote:

> I ran through the installation procedure posted on the VPython website,
> first installing Python 2.1, then the VPython & IDLE expansions.
> Everything installed with no problems, and I can edit text and create
> *.py files with no problem, but whenever I am in the IDLE for VPython
> (not the command/shell), upon pressing F5 to compile, nothing happens. No
> output windows appear, no compilation or graphics windows appear, etc.
> The only way I can get a successful compile is if I double-click on an
> individual *.py file; then, instead of opening the file in the IDLE, it
> auto-compiles it and runs it, but without any output window (I'm sure you
> can understand how difficult that makes debugging). Any ideas you have as
>    to how I might fix this would be VERY appreciated. I have tried
>    uninstalling/reinstalling, but to no avail. Furthermore, before I
>    formatted my hard drive about a year ago, I had installed VPython on
>    my Win2000 machine (Upon Nick Fotopoulos' recommendation), and had the
>    same problem.