I've worked on this a bit but the answer is elusive and not yet
determined.
I'm running on Windows XP SP2 on both my laptop and my desktop.
The file blocking I fixed, but it did not make a difference in my
problem.
One thing that is odd is that my results seem to be so inconsistent.
What I'm doing is I've downloaded a Dabo 9.1 zip file for windows. I
create a folder, unzip to that folder. Then I update my python dabo.pth
file to point to the location of the dabo module folder. I update the
ui\__init__.py file to use wxversion.select("2.8-unicode") just before
it try's loading wx. I then run the classdesigner.py from the ide
folder. Usually I'm doing it from a command prompt so the error
messages remain if it the app is unable to successfully open.
The part that's inconsistent is that I've only once received the message
when I run the classdesigner that this appears to be the first time you
are running dabo do you want to update. Most times I get no message
about that. I then go into preferences and click the update now button.
I've sometimes started by opening the dabodemo app first. I'm more
likely to get the this appears to be the first time message when I run
it, but again it's inconsistent.
Is there somewhere outside of the dabo modules folder and the
application folders that is persisting the information about the first
time dabo is run? When I've run a test and then want to start again I'll
delete the folder into which I've placed both the dabo module and the
dabo applications. It's usually just the dabo folder expanded from the
zip file. So usually my structure is somepath\dabo which has
somepath\dabo\dabo the modules folder and somepath\dabo\ide or
somepath\dabo\demo the apps. If I delete somepath\dabo or rename it and
expand the contents of the downloaded zip file to somepath\dabo again,
shouldn't it be just like starting over as far as dabo is concerned?
The permissions error I was getting before is restricted to just the
dabodemo application when I try to run web update. I never get that
message when I'm working on classdesigner. It seems that somewhere Dabo
is having trouble updating the framework.
The one time I was able to update the classdesigner and have it open
again was the following. I installed in %userprofile%\dabo. Ran
dabodemo and it said it appears to be the first time running. I
updated. The app closed and when I ran it again it asked me again if I
wanted to update. I did so and then it closed again. I ran it again
and this time it opened. By the way it was updated to 5105. I then
closed the demo and tried to open the class designer. I received the
error no attribute CxnFile. I then deleted all the folders, and
extracted them again from the zip file. This time I ran the
classdesigner first and I did NOT get the message about first time
running dabo. I did not update when it asked me. I opened it and went
to preferences. I clicked the update now button and received a message
about updates available. I believe it said something about updates for
both classdesigner and dabo but not sure. I clicked yes to upgrade. It
upgraded to 5105. I closed program. I then ran classdesigner again and
it opened fine. I have not been able to duplicate this success since.
I've checked all possible permissions issues that I know. The owner is
my account, I'm running as an admin. I've replaced all permissions on
the extracted files. They don't have any streams that would cause
windows to block them. I get similar results in any folders I try.
I'm not messing with my laptop install because it's working and I'm
using it to run through the tutorials.
Very confused.
Matt J.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Ed Leafe
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:34 PM
To: Dabo Users list
Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Dabo 0.9.1 ran webupdate now broken
On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Matt Jackson wrote:
> I started to write to say that I've checked all possible security
> problems.
> I was wrong, I'd checked all security issues that I was aware of but
> not the one's I wasn't aware of.
> There were some unknown unknowns.
>
> Turns out that many of the files I downloaded have been blocked by
> windows. The message that shows
> up in the file properties dialog box is
> "this file came from another computer and might be blocked to help
> protect this computer"
Oh geez. How are you supposed to update things in Windows then?
> Here's a good article on the issue and some ways to fix the problem
> other than clicking the unblock button individually on all files:
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2006/12/19/tips-steams-zones-vista-
and-blocked-files-in-ie.aspx
OK, I'll take a look at that in the next few days.
> I'll let you know if I still have the problem after I unblock the
> files but I have a feeling that this is the problem.
Please let me know what you find. And if there are any other
Windows
users out there who have experience with this issue, please post
whatever advice you can.
-- Ed Leafe
[excessive quoting removed by server]
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