Thanks for the links, but they are still not basic enough, because even the editor seems to work different to what I know from Lite-C or that what I've seen of C++.

What do I have to do, when I get a window called Python Shell with this contend?

this is an interactive python shell. you can enter python commands there and immediately see the results. you could use it as a powerful pocket calculator, for quickly trying out short code snippets, or more experienced users can open a python shell for interacting with their running program (think of execute() in c-script just much more powerful).

IDLE by default starts with just this shell. you can open a new empty source code file with "file -> new window". enter your program there, save it and run it with f5.

I gonna try this with your knights on wheels example, just have to find the resources on my harddisk.

I'm quite dumb, i know! :P But now, I got a step further.
Although, I don't know what I missed this time.

Which dll is it missing?

are you using python 2.5 (since it says so in your IDLE shell)? my wrapper needs python 2.6.

(unfortunately it would be a bit cumbersome to compile the wrapper for python 2.5 since it has to be compiled with the same visual c++ version the python dll got compiled with and i think for python 2.5 it was visual c++ 2005 which i don't really want to download and install.)

the other reason could be that your acknex.dll is missing in the directory.

Got it!
Installed Python 2.6.2,
extracted the pya7_alpha.exe into the python26 folder
and copied the acknex.dll into the same folder.

Started IDLE(Python GUI) from the start menu,
clicked File --> Open..,
opened the knight_on_wheels.py in the python26 folder
and hit F5!

It works!

great!

you don't have to work directly in the python26 or gstudio7 folder though.

this python wrapper sounds really interesting. i have worked few years with python so i could benefit from this because i just started using game studio. Still i find C lite very easy but Python is more powerful because the standard library and hundreds of libraries and modules freely available (although is probably slower).

So far i cannot make it to work, i have python2.6 installed, then uncompressed pyA7 to my hardrive. Then edited the .bat files like this and run it
"C:\Program Files\GStudio7\wed.exe" -p c:\python26\python.exe
copy c:\python26\acknex.dll C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\pyA7

at this point i try to run knights_on_wheels.py and I get this DLL error :

IDLE 2.6.2 ==== No Subprocess ====
>>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\pyA7\knights_on_wheels.py", line 12, in <module>
from a7_scheduler import *
File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\pyA7\a7_scheduler.py", line 3, in <module>
from a7 import level_load as _level_load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.


Could this be because my A7 engine is old? I get SED > Help > About and there it says Version : 7.02.4

I am not sure if this is the right way to run it.

acknex.dll is in the same directory I uncompressed pya7_alpha.exe

I also tried to copy acknex.dll to python2.6 together with a7_scheduler.py and a7.pyd and get the same error.

it would be good to have a step by step explanation of how to set it up. maybe i have not found it?

yes, your engine is too old. you need 7.77 or newer.

ok, thanks for quick reply!