I picked this up from wxPython-users:

http://lists.wxwidgets.org/pipermail/wxpython-users/2007-November/070442.html

seems to be  a bug with wxGTK

Victor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oeyvind Brandtsegg" 
To: 
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:20 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: partikkel cloud designer


> The errors probably stems from a problem with the gui objects that
> does not display on your system.
> See: http://oeyvind.teks.no/results/applications/partikkelapplications.htm
> (bottom of the page) for a screenshot of how it should look.
>
> Could you send me a complete console print ? (everything printed in
> the console when you run main.py)
> It seems that you might not be loading (all) the presets. You should
> see a line like:
> loaded cloud4bird
> for every file in the /presets directory (here, I have 129 of them).
> You don't need all the presets for the application to run (they just
> contain more examples of sonic textures), but if they fail to load, it
> might give me an indicator as to where this goes wrong for you.
>
> Also, what wx version are you using ?
> I'm on wx 2.8.4 (unicode), please do report if you're using the ansi
> or unicode version.
> PartikkelCloudDesigner uses dynamic execution of code (evaluation of
> autogenerated text strings as python code) to automate the generation
> of the large number of gui controls. It might be that there's a
> problem with the differences in string parsing between the ansi and
> unicode versions of wx.
>
> best
> Oeyvind
>
> 2008/4/22, Rob Canning :
>> hi
>> i am trying to get partikkel cloud designer working
>> i have installed python-csound wxversion python-gumpy
>> partikkel explorer seems to work fine
>> partikkelclouddesigner starts fine with no errors - i can even load cloud
>> presets and make it make sounds
>> the only things that appear in the gui are the file menu and the toggle 
>> just
>> below it in the cloud play controls
>> there are no gui items at all in the cloud preset controls.
>> what am i doing wrong?
>> some errors from the terminal that look relevant are:
>>
>> (python:13596): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_file_system_unix_get_info: assertion
>> `g_path_is_absolute (filename)' failed
>> loaded cloud4bird
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File
>> "/home/rob/apps/partikkelCloudDesigner/playControls.py",
>> line 259, in MenuControls
>>   self.cloudPresetOpen()
>>  File
>> "/home/rob/apps/partikkelCloudDesigner/playControls.py",
>> line 381, in cloudPresetOpen
>>   self.eventCaller.updateCloudPresetGui()
>>  File
>> "/home/rob/apps/partikkelCloudDesigner/eventCaller.py",
>> line 62, in updateCloudPresetGui
>>   eval(ctrlFunc)
>>  File "string", line 1, in 
>> AttributeError: 'TextCtrl' object has no attribute 'ChangeValue'
>>
>>
>> i am on debian testing
>> python 2.5
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> rob c
>>
>
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