Joe Heafner wrote: > I have installed Python 2.5.1 and the associated visual package (known > as VPython) under 10.4.9. I have tried all day to create a Platypus > app out of the /sw/bin/vpython2.5 script but I can't get it to work. I > just got twelve brand new MacBooks for my physics classes and I would > like for students to be able to double click one icon to launch > VPython. Ideally, I'd like for the Platypus app to also start X11 and > then launch the VPython script, and launching X11 is no problem. I'd > appreciate any suggestions.
The following worked for me: I clicked on /sw/bin/vpython2.5 in the Finder and told it to use X11.app for opening it. Then I made a symlink on the Desktop ln -s /sw/bin/vpython2.5 ~/Desktop/VisualPython Double-clicking the icon on the desktop makes the Idle window appear as it should; it even starts X11 if it is not running. I am not sure if there is a way to copy the result from one machine to another, but it takes only a couple of seconds for each user to install this. I am also not sure if you can replace the ugly standard icon by anything else. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
