Help with Black Adder...

[Boudewijn Rempt]

rapskat wrote:

> Greetings All.  I'm just getting started with python and I chose Black
> Adder as a RAD IDE.  Since my background is (ugh!) VB, I'm used to the
> whole Top Down IDE thing.

Well, before I started using Python a few years ago, I was a VB programmer,
too. (And Oracle before that -- I've come a long way, I think). Currently,
I use XEmacs for everything, so the transition can be made, but you need
a strong incentive. For me that incentive was to have to write a book on
PyQt and BlackAdder in docbook sgml. And from using XEmacs for docbook to
using it for everything else (except mail and news) was an insidiuous 
process. I've now redefined KDE to accept ctrl-s for search, and ctrl-x-s 
for save :-).

> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) I am having problems with BA not finding the PyQT libs.  I installed
> both from the rpm's (I'm using RH 7.3).  But when I start BA it gives me
> an error that it couldn't find the PyQT modules and that they won't be
> available for the session.  I've tried removing them and reinstalling to
> no avail.  I've run ldconfig as well.  Has anyone ele seen anything like
> this and any ideas on how to resolve it?

I'm not sure that the current version of BlackAdder includes the PyQt 
library -- the commercial version does, I think, but the demo version
doesn't. Or something like that. Check whether all libs are really there;
then check whether LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the location of the relevant
.so's, whether BLACKADDERDIR is correct, and whether BLACKADDERPYTHON is
set correctly.

(There's a layouto in my book on page 39: the second export ought to be
on the next line.)


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