Re: TECH: IPA Zounds v3.0 released

Paul Bennett writes:

 > Right. I'm a moron. I can't get it to run.

No, I think it's Windows that makes life difficult for everyone.

 > running install_scripts
 > # So far, so good, right?

Yes.

 > # I thought I understood that the install would make the scripts
 > visible from anywhere

It *should* do, though that depends (on Windows) on the Python
installation setting the PATH environment variable - which it doesn't
do, apparently. You can add C:\Python24\Scripts or whatever the
directory is to the PATH, and that should work. I believe that the .py
extension is registered to be executable by the Python installer.

 > Where is this libpath set, since it's not configured via Windows
 > environment variables? Is it more likely to be a Python thing, a
 > pygtk thing, or an ipa-zounds thing?

It's a Python thing. Try adding:

sys.path.append("C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin")

to ipa-zounds.py after the line "from threading import Thread". I hope
that helps matters.

It's disturbing that it didn't just work, though - when I was testing
it on a Windows box it all went fine after installing PyGTK and GTK.

I'm going to make a Windows EXE which bundles everything up early next
week - it's been requested by a few people, and should save on a lot
of these hassles. For now I can only apologise that it doesn't work
for you - I don't develop on Windows, and have limited access to a
Windows machine; once IPA Zounds works for me on that OS, I tend to
breathe a sigh of relief and stop using it.

 > I have a Linux box I can try this on, too. That feels like it might
 > be easier.

Almost certainly. But if you have problems with that too, let me know
- there I can probably be of more help.

Jamie
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