SPE 0.7.5

Beta-release. Use at your own risk.

If you used SPE before, first uninstall...

- Windows: Uninstall SPE with Add/Remove Progams in the control panel. 
           Spe should be mentioned as 'Python x.x SPE-x.x.x.x' 
           If you don't find this entry, than do the action (Unix*) below.

- Unix*:   Remove any '_spe' and 'sm' folders from your python site-packages directory.

... than install

- Windows: Use the win32 installer. This will create icons on desktop & start menu and
           register SPE in the context menu of Windows Explorer. (Do not use the script 
           spe_wininst.py, it will be called by the win32 installer automatically.)
           Be sure you downloaded the right version, eg -py24 is for python2.4

- Unix*:   Do the usual:
           >>> python setup.py install

Please use the berlios site for bug reports, patches, forums, etc...

For more info: http://www.stani.be/python/spe/blog

Donations are more than welcome.

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Half good news for Mac users, the moment that I will buy a Mac is coming closer but I still need a bit more than 200 euros. The faster you donate, the faster you will get SPE gracefully on Mac.

Please consider contributing to SPE. Bugfixing is the best way to know its code. I will give you full assistance. Are you native english speaking? Please read the manual and take out all the stupid mistakes. Do you speak another language. Please translate the manual. For a lot of languages people are already translating (even including Chinese!), so probably you can just join, to share the cake. Do you have other talents (web design, zope, images, photoshop, ...), contact me. Do you have not any talent, ok, grab your wallet and donate some money!

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MINI FAQ (Bigger FAQ in manual, please read if you have problems.)

1.

*QUESTION:*

I'm trying to install SPE 0.7.4.z on my Linux (Ubuntu) box.

The manual says I should type: python setup.py install - but there's
no "setup.py" script in the SPE directory I downloaded.

OK, the README file told me to  "Copy the '_spe' folder to your python lib/site-packages directory", so I did this. But then what?

I start Python and type "import _spe", but then it tells me:

"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_spe/info.py", line 96, in ?
    INFO['encoding']    = wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding()

What more do I need to do to get your IDE up and running?

*ANSWER:*

Your version of wxPython is out of date, you need at least wxPython 2.5.4.1 Please upgrade and if you don't know how, trial and error an old version of SPE:
http://projects.blender.org/frs/?group_id=30&release_id=209

Don't ask which one, for sure one will work. You can always try to send an email to your linux distibution to ask to make a new wxPython package available or that they upgrade wxPython in next release.

2.

*QUESTION:*

During install I get this ogl missing error....

  File "C:\Progs\Python23\Lib\site-packages\sm\uml.py", line 3, in ?
    import wx, wx.lib.ogl as ogl
ImportError: No module named ogl

*ANSWER:

Your version of wxPython is not built with ogl support. Again you need at least wxPython 2.5.4.1 with ogl support enabled. The ogl demo in the wxPython demo also won't work for you. This has nothing to do with SPE, so please, if you have further questions about these, please post them on the wxPython-user list:

http://www.wxpython.org/maillist.php