Help with Black Adder...

[rapskat]

Error Log for Sat, 08 Jun 2002 15:29:00 -0400: segfault in module
"Boudewijn Rempt" - dump details are as follows...

> rapskat wrote:
> 
>> Greetings All.  I'm just getting started with python and I chose Black
>> Adder as a RAD IDE.  Since my background is (ugh!) VB, I'm used to the
>> whole Top Down IDE thing.
> 
> Well, before I started using Python a few years ago, I was a VB
> programmer, too. (And Oracle before that -- I've come a long way, I
> think). Currently, I use XEmacs for everything, so the transition can be
> made, but you need a strong incentive. For me that incentive was to have
> to write a book on PyQt and BlackAdder in docbook sgml. And from using
> XEmacs for docbook to using it for everything else (except mail and
> news) was an insidiuous process. I've now redefined KDE to accept ctrl-s
> for search, and ctrl-x-s for save :-).
> 
> 
>> My questions are:
>> 
>> 1) I am having problems with BA not finding the PyQT libs.  I installed
>> both from the rpm's (I'm using RH 7.3).  But when I start BA it gives
>> me an error that it couldn't find the PyQT modules and that they won't
>> be available for the session.  I've tried removing them and
>> reinstalling to no avail.  I've run ldconfig as well.  Has anyone ele
>> seen anything like this and any ideas on how to resolve it?
> 
> I'm not sure that the current version of BlackAdder includes the PyQt
> library -- the commercial version does, I think, but the demo version
> doesn't. Or something like that. Check whether all libs are really
> there; then check whether LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the location of the
> relevant .so's, whether BLACKADDERDIR is correct, and whether
> BLACKADDERPYTHON is set correctly.
> 
> (There's a layouto in my book on page 39: the second export ought to be
> on the next line.)
 
Thank you for all of your responses.

I will look for your publication, Boudewijn, I think it may provide the
answers to both my current and future issues.

I will also check those variables and see if perhaps they aren't properly
set.

Thanks again!

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