Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-27 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Cool, I went to the UofA for my MS in ECE, 2000. I did my theses under Chuck Higgins. -- http://neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu/pubs/ma_schwager_msthesis.pdf The tools we had were constantly underwhelming me, so I've been thinking for years that a properly designed new toolset for students should be m

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi, Actually I was thinking of doing the bulk of everything in Python, and then embedding a Python interpreter into the CAD program. Anything in C++ would be to speed up critical things, like rules checking, etc. I have looked at python cad (found it a year or two ago) and am inspired by it; I'm

Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Python, so I have a question about writing an application that also has a scripting ability. I'm thinking of Eric3 as an example. It's written in Python, but it also has an interpreter window. The user doesn't have access (I don't think...) to all the internal stuff that

Eric3 for Windows not firing up.

2005-08-24 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi, I downloaded Python 2.4.1 for Windows and PyQtGPL10.exe and Eric3snapshot2005-04-10.exe from http://pythonqt.vanrietpaap.nl/ They seemed to install fine. Python 2.4.1 works. I tried Linguist and Designer, but there was some entrypoint error in qt-mt3.dll. I copied this file into the c:\wind