[Edu-sig] LIVEWIRES Package problems...

[BJ MacNevin]

By george that did it! Thanks a lot, John! I really appreciate the help!
BJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Zelle" <john.zelle at wartburg.edu>
To: "BJ MacNevin" <brian at macnevin.net>
Cc: "'Edu-sig'" <edu-sig at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] LIVEWIRES Package problems...


> I have never used the LIVEWIRES material, so I don't have specific
> knowledge. I was wondering if you are running this out of IDLE. The new
> version of IDLE (by default) does not merge the event-loops of Tk
> subprocesses. This leaves some graphics packages apparently unresponsive
> when being tested interactively under IDLE. If this is your situation,
> try running IDLE with the -n switch, or try using a plain vanilla Python
> shell (not IDLE) and see if that solves the problem.
>
> If you are not using IDLE, then just ignore this post, as it clearly
> isn't your problem :-)
>
> --John
>
> BJ MacNevin wrote:
>
> >If anyone is familiar with the Livewires package...
> >
> >I can't get the graphics windows to behave. When I run the test() then
> >everything seems to be working fine. But when I try to use it this
happens:
> >
> >begin_graphics()    #The graphics window opens as it does for test()
> >
> >draw(200,200)   #nothing happens. No graphics.
> >
> >And then, when the mouse is over the window there is a WAIT cursor... and
if
> >I click, it all stops working. DOH! Could there be a mouse driver
problem?
> >
> >I have no clue at all.
> >
> >Thanks fro any suggestions!
> >
> >BJ MacNevin
> >
> >
> >
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>    Associate Prof. of CS   |  Dept. Math/CS/Physics
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