All Boa samples execution of command failed access is denied

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Erik,

Erik Vandamme wrote:

Hi Werner,
Win XP SP2

Very strange, I have been using Boa on that platform for a long time, currently I don't have it on that machine anymore as I moved over to a Vista machine for dev and use the XP machine for testing.

On the Vista machine I tried all kind of things without success to get an error when running the Boa examples.

Can you provide more details on:
- what Python, wxPython and Boa version are you using
- what folder is Boa installed in
- details steps you perform to reproduce the error with complete error message and/or traceback you get

Werner

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Werner,
I uninstalled Boa (because in the doc/help it said that one could
install undre Python25\site-packages…
Installing it ther gave same result, then I found a directiry
c:\Python25 with just the debugger in it and then copied all Boa stuff
from …\site-packages
Re-made sure all folderrs/files under c:\Python were not read-only and
then run everythhing sample again
see below for result:
Traceback (most recent
call last):
File “Everything.py”, line 6, in
wxversion.select(‘2.5’)
File “C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\wxversion.py”, line 152, in select
raise VersionError(“Requested version of wxPython not found”)
wxversion.VersionError: Requested version of wxPython not found

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:

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Erik,

Erik Vandamme wrote:

Hi Werner,

Win XP SP2

Very strange, I have been using Boa on that platform for a long time,
currently I don’t have it on that machine anymore as I moved over to a
Vista machine for dev and use the XP machine for testing.

On the Vista machine I tried all kind of things without success to get
an error when running the Boa examples.

Can you provide more details on:

  • what Python, wxPython and Boa version are you using

  • what folder is Boa installed in

  • details steps you perform to reproduce the error with complete error
    message and/or traceback you get

Werner

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Werner,
That worked! Thanks.
So not only does that code need patching, but some-one need to look at
the installer and where it puts stuff, so its target should be
“c:\Python25\Boa Constructor” not site-packages.

What’s with the folder names containing white space anyway, as an old
fashioned PC developer (say from 1986) that gives me the shivers…

Cheers

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:

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54 Hilltop Road - WAMBERAL NSW 2260 Australia
Skype - erik_vandamme
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Erik,

Erik Vandamme wrote:

Werner,

I uninstalled Boa (because in the doc/help it said that one could
install undre Python25\site-packages…

Installing it ther gave same result, then I found a directiry
c:\Python25 with just the debugger in it and then copied all Boa stuff
from …\site-packages

Not sure what you are saying here, but as you are getting an exception
it looks like the access rights are worked out.

Re-made sure all folderrs/files under

c:\Python were not read-only and then run everythhing sample again

see below for result:

*/Traceback (most recent call last):

File “Everything.py”, line 6, in 

wxversion.select('2.5')

File “C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\wxversion.py”, line 152, in
select

raise VersionError("Requested version of wxPython not found")

wxversion.VersionError: Requested version of wxPython not found/*

It looks like no one has tried to use this example for some time. To
make it compatible with recent versions of wxPython you need to make
the following changes:

line 6: wxversion.select(‘2.5’)

change it to: wxversion.ensureMinimal(‘2.5’)

change the “ID=” to “id=” for wx.lib.buttons.GenButton,
wx.lib.buttons.GenBitmapButton and wx.lib.buttons.GenToggleButton.

I will see that this gets update in the cvs version.

Werner

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Werner,

Obviously, if Riaan does allt ths by himself it is a magnificent job.

I am just downloading your Wine Cellar app to see what a completed boa
app can look like.

Cheers

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:

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Erik,

Erik Vandamme wrote:

Werner,

That worked! Thanks.

Great.

So not only does that code need patching,

That can happen, you know Boa is mainly maintained by one person and
Riaan does a great job to keep it up to date with development on the
wxPython and Python side.

I use Boa for about 3 years to develop my little shareware application
() and I am still very happy with it.
I still don’t understand why there was a problem. I had Boa under the
wxPython folder for a long time and now for quite some time I have it
in:
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\boa
without any issues at all.
I would think that is no issue any more, I personally don’t use spaces
but I never had problems dealing with folder names with spaces (mostly
you just have to put the folder name in quotes).
Werner

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but some-one need to look at the *installer
*and where it puts stuff, so its target should be “c:\Python25\Boa
Constructor” not site-packages.

What's with the folder names containing white

space anyway, as an old fashioned PC developer (say from 1986) that
gives me the shivers…

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