HELP!!! Installing Blt for Pmw

[Gary Richardson]

Take a look at my post on 12 Dec 01.

Barry Drake <bldrake1 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1011744932.1938.python-list at python.org...
> All,
> I'm having the same problem as others here.  I've
> duplicated a previous message below since my setup is
> exactly the same.  Copying the .dll and .lib files to
> every concievable subdirectory doesn't seem to work,
> including the Windows System directory.
>
> Someone must have gotten this to work at sometime in
> the past!!!  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Barry L. Drake
> ----------------------------------
> Previous posting:
>
>
> Dear Pythonistas!
>
> After having installed successfully Python -
> MageWidgets and
> after having run partially successfully the  All.py -
> demo
> I ran into a problem when trying to install blt -
> which is
> necessary to execute some of the options in All.py (
> and which
> I'm rather interested to use):
>
> I'm running Python 2.1 in the ActiveState-flavour
> (including Tcl/Tkinter)
> under WindowsNT 4.0
>
> I downloaded blt2_4u-for-8_3.exe
>
> and then tinkered around a lot of time without
> success,
>
> The installer ran "successfully", but I seem not to
> know where to
> install the things correctly (Perhaps the installer
> doesn't know that
> I want to know them with Python?.
>
> It installs 3 subdirectories:
>     bin
>     include
>     lib
> but not in the correct place.
> It doesn't seem to modify then registry (hopefully).
>
> So All.py complains still with:
> "I'm sorry, but btl has not been installed" ... or
> similar
>
> My dir-structure is:
>
> C:\Python21\
>       DLLs
>       Doc
>       Lib
>       libs
>       Pmw
>       pygame
>       tcl\
>            tcl8.3
>            tk8.3
>
> ( and more ...)
>
>
> Could anybody help with hints
>    - if I downloaded the correct file
>    - what to enter when asked for the install-dir
>    - how to get it to run
>
> (Dirty question, I assume)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Gregor Lingl
>
>
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