Finally got around to trying this and really like it. Great job, this is definitely going on my list of always-run exes for DF.
I'd also like to add a +1 to the idea of allowing the user to specify extra panes, allowing them to display messages in any number of customisable divisions.
PTW - this is already great, and it looks like ongoing development will be more reliable than it's predecessors.
I tried adding my utility to the utility folder (the .exe i've compiled with py2exe), and I get the following error when I try and open it through the LNP.
Weird. I also get an error, and launching it from a .bat script works... except through PyLNP.
I have this problem from PyLNP as well. I can run AnnouncementWindow.exe fine by double clicking on it (no need for a BAT), but executing it from PyLNP gives me a bunch of errors in the log about not being able to find TCL:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.pyc", line 4, in <module>
File "Window.pyo", line 161, in __init__
File "Tkinter.pyo", line 1814, in __init__
_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
{C:\Users\tomjo\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI71642\_MEI\tcl} C:/Users/tomjo/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI71642/_MEI/tcl8.5 C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/Utilities/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/Utilities/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/Utilities/library C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/library C:/Games/DWARFF~1/LNP/tcl8.5.15/library C:/Games/DWARFF~1/tcl8.5.15/library
C:/Users/tomjo/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI71642/_MEI/tcl/init.tcl: version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.15, need exactly 8.5.2
version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.15, need exactly 8.5.2
while executing
"package require -exact Tcl 8.5.2"
(file "C:/Users/tomjo/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI71642/_MEI/tcl/init.tcl" line 20)
invoked from within
"source C:/Users/tomjo/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI71642/_MEI/tcl/init.tcl"
("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list source $tclfile]"
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
The errors all relate to a temporary directory, and I've looked in my Temp folder and see a couple named as above, eg _MEI81642, containing files relating to PyLNP. For example, containing LNP.ICO, PyLNP.exe.manifest, and then a bunch of Python DLLs, including tcl85.dll.
So it seems that an option for packaging Python EXEs on Windows is as archives which expand library and other files to a temp folder and then execute from there. At least, this is one way Python executables can run on Windows - not a method seemingly used by AW, but used by PyLNP and at least one other Python app on my system (I see I have another _MEI* folder from some other app, not PyLNP - possibly Google Drive in fact.)
Both PyLNP and AnnouncementWindow use TCL: AW uses version 8.5.2 and PyLNP is 8.5.15. So the problem is that when AW runs from PyLNP it seems to include PyLNP's temp folder in its search for tcl*.dll, and look there first - before its own folder. This causes it to fail on the package requirements, because it finds PyLNP's 8.5.15 tcl85.dll, and its rules specify that it requires only version 8.5.2 (
package require -exact Tcl 8.5.2) It's probably an environment problem, inheriting PyLNP's environment which specifies PyLNP's Temp folder at the start.
Maybe there's a setting you can specify that can change where the Windows version looks for includes, such on Windows it only looks for TCL in the same directory where AW.exe is found? Or looks there first at least; ignoring any environment PATH.
Or, perhaps you can make the EXE the same way that PyLNP is made, such that it has tcl85.dll bundled in the Exe and it expands this into a Temp folder before running? If it had its own temp folder it would presumably look there before any other Python temp folder. That would also mean you could distribute fewer files, in the same way that PyLNP distributes only an Exe: with the DLLs and other files baked into that Exe.
Or perhaps the quickest fix for now would be to just change AW's packaging requirement rules to specify that TCL can be any 8.5 version from 8.5.2 onwards. The logs show "package require -exact Tcl 8.5.2", so if this could be changed to whatever syntax accepts 8.5.* then it could use either its own 8.5.2 or PyLNP's 8.5.15 version of tcl.dll. (This is of course assuming that nothing breaks with a higher 8.5 version! Hopefully not as the versioning suggests it should only be bugfixes from 8.5.2 -> 8.5.15.)
I suppose that might not be the best long term solution, as it requires that AW can always work with every version of 8.5.* TCL that might be found on a system. But it should work quickly for now, if the fundamental environment search path issue can't be fixed as quickly/easily.
Hope that helps and thanks again for the great tool, really like it.
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