Thread: [Visualpython-users] Tk + Visual; Red Hat problems?

1) Several people have asked about combining Tkinter and Visual. In the 
Windows download area of http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual is a 
demo program zip file that now includes Tk-Visual.py, a small program that 
illustrates having sliders in a Tkinter window controlling attributes of a 
Visual window display.

2) A Red Hat 6.2 Linux user of VPython reports that once he closes a Visual 
window, Python is dead. However, he also says that he has made lots of 
piece-wise updates to Linux. Those of you who use Red Hat Linux, have you 
encountered this problem, or is it just specific to that one user's 
environment? Thanks for input.

Bruce Sherwood

Hi, all

My previous notes may have vanished in the aether;  at least I never saw
them echoed back from the list.  So I've un and re-subscribed at a
different address.

I have to admit that I have yet to get Visual Python working on
RedHat.  I've checked out the 'visual' and 'cvisual' modules, but 'make'
in the cvisual subdirectory fails because of the lack of gtkgl include
files such as gtkglarea.h.  This file and the similar ones are not listed
in a complete set of contents I made of all the RPM's which come with
RedHat 6.2.  Where are they?

-- 
Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
ste...@cs...

I do see notes from you in the archives stored at sourceforge.net. The 
previous one found there was 11/22. Unfortunately I can't comment on the 
RedHat problems other than to say that I have received reports from people 
who used the info at our FAQ (at http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual) 
and were indeed able to get VPython running on RedHat Linux. Perhaps 
someone knowledgeable will respond to your question (and it sounds like it 
would be prudent to copy you personally, not just mail to the email list!).

Bruce Sherwood

--On Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:56 PM -0800 Stephen Walton 
<sw...@su...> wrote:

> My previous notes may have vanished in the aether;  at least I never saw
> them echoed back from the list.  So I've un and re-subscribed at a
> different address.
>
> I have to admit that I have yet to get Visual Python working on
> RedHat.  I've checked out the 'visual' and 'cvisual' modules, but 'make'
> in the cvisual subdirectory fails because of the lack of gtkgl include
> files such as gtkglarea.h.  This file and the similar ones are not listed
> in a complete set of contents I made of all the RPM's which come with
> RedHat 6.2.  Where are they?

> I have to admit that I have yet to get Visual Python working on
> RedHat.  I've checked out the 'visual' and 'cvisual' modules, but 'make'
> in the cvisual subdirectory fails because of the lack of gtkgl include
> files such as gtkglarea.h.  This file and the similar ones are not listed
> in a complete set of contents I made of all the RPM's which come with
> RedHat 6.2.  Where are they?

gtkglarea is available as a tarball from

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea

I can't comment on the RPMs, because I don't maintain them, I've never
seen them, and I don't have an RPM-based distribution.  Maybe they just
don't work?

Dave

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Scherer wrote:

> I can't comment on the RPMs, because I don't maintain them, I've never
> seen them, and I don't have an RPM-based distribution.  Maybe they just
> don't work?
> 
in general, the place to get Gtk-related RPMs would be helixcode.com.

in life as a whole, it should be noted that not all that much comes with
redhat.

to fix this, you can try getting RPMs from rpmfind.net (otherwise known as
rufus.w3.org) where they are listed in alphabetical order. be careful -- there
are RPMs from many distros there. Mandrake and RH packages are sometimes
interchangeable. SuSE (and any others) generally are not. Oh, and watch out for
packages of other architectures.

or skip it all and use debian.


ari

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Stephen Walton wrote:

> I have to admit that I have yet to get Visual Python working on
> RedHat.  I've checked out the 'visual' and 'cvisual' modules, but 'make'
> in the cvisual subdirectory fails because of the lack of gtkgl include
> files such as gtkglarea.h.  This file and the similar ones are not listed
> in a complete set of contents I made of all the RPM's which come with
> RedHat 6.2.  Where are they?

They are part of the RH6.2 "Powertools" collection.

Roger.