On Thursday 11 August 2005 20:56, Colin J. Williams wrote: > I have installed DABO etc. and started on the test. > > It fails at import dabo. Presumably this is because the installer > failed to place dabo in Python's site-packages. > > Presumably, I should move the RunTime\dabo to Python\Lib\site-packages. > > Is this correct and is there anything else I should do.
Yes, the diagnosis is correct, but not the solution. The Runtime engine comes with its own copy of Python, wxPython, etc., and will not modify any version of Python already installed on your system. It's a completely self-contained universe. If you want to install Dabo into your current Python, you should download the source installer, and run setup.py. If you want to use the Runtime Engine, which has its own Python, complete with wxPython, MySQLdb, kinterbasdb, and more, as well as Dabo, you need to launch your scripts using the daborun.exe program in the base runtime folder. If you're still stuck, let me know what you've already tried, and I'll be glad to help. > The WIKI is looking for ideas. (1) I presume you are familiar with > Boa-Constructor. Ryaan Boosen has wrestled with thes problems. Which problems? A standalone runtime engine? > (2) I suggest that, for a file format, you consider OASIS. This is used > by OpenOffice.org I've looked at that, and none of the existing formats are even close to being sufficient for describing a page of sized objects with associated properties and method code, which is what we need for our class files. I also don't see a lot of benefit, since Dabo classes aren't documents that will need to be shared by various vendors and edited in other programs. They can be edited in any text editor. -- -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
