This page is for the old release Vision Egg 1.0.
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Here are the all the steps in detail required to get the Vision Egg to run on your Windows system. The entire process should only take a few minutes.
Instructions for Python 2.4
Download and install:
See below for instructions on installing the demo scripts and other, optional packages
Instructions for Python 2.5
Here is the latest revision of the Vision Egg (SVN rev 1389 as of 2007-05-16). Be aware that it, along with all the Python 2.5 binaries it depends on, is not as well tested as it is for Python 2.4.
Download and install:
Numeric-24.2.win32-py2.5.exe (thanks to the biopython project for this binary)
PyOpenGL-2.0.2.01.py2.5-numpy24.exe (thanks to Giovanni Bajo for this binary)
See below for instructions on installing the demo scripts and other, optional packages
Instructions for Python 2.3 (old)
Download and install:
PyOpenGL-2.0.1.08.py2.3-numpy23.exe
Get Vision Egg for Python 2.3 from the DownloadAndInstall page.
See below for instructions on installing the demo scripts and other, optional packages
Instructions for Python 2.2 (old)
INSTALLING PYTHON
Get Python from www.python.org. I recommend Python-2.2.1.exe (6.8 MB). More recent releases of Python are available, but a bug (SF #651701) affects ephys_server/gui in Python 2.2.2 and 2.2.3. (Python 2.3 and above are OK.)
Save it to disk, double click the icon to run the installer. I recommend installing all of the components. You should now have a functioning copy of Python.
INSTALL NUMERIC PYTHON
Get the numeric python ("numpy") release 21 from http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/. The windows binary installer is Numeric-21.0.win32-py2.2.exe (444kB). The newer release is incompatibile with PyOpenGL-2.0.0.4 Windows binary release listed below. Therefore be sure you use Numeric-21.0.
Save this file to disk, double click its icons to run the installer. You should now have a functioning copy of numeric python and its FFT module.
INSTALL PYTHON IMAGING LIBRARY
Get the latest release of the python imaging library ("PIL") from http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm. At the time of writing the latest windows binary installer is PIL-1.1.4.win32-py2.2.exe (396 kB).
Save it to disk, double click the icon to run the installer. You should now have a functioning copy of the python imaging library.
INSTALL PYOPENGL
Get the latest release of PyOpenGL from http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net. At the time of writing the latest windows installer is PyOpenGL-2.0.0.44.win32-py2.2.exe (1.57MB).
Save it to disk, double click the icon to run the installer. You should now have a functioning copy of PyOpenGL.
INSTALL PYGAME
Get pygame-1.5.3.win32-py22.exe (743 kB). (Home site: http://pygame.org/.) Newer releases are compiled for newer versions of Numeric, and do not work properly for the version used with PyOpenGL.
Save it to disk, double click the icon to run the installer. You should now have a functioning copy of pygame.
INSTALL THE VISION EGG!
Get the latest windows binary installer from the downloads page.
Save it to disk, double click the icon to run the installer. You should now have a functioning copy of the Vision Egg.
Don't forget to download the demo programs. Expand the archive in a directory of your choice. Check your installation by running check-config.py. If you have any problems, please let me know.
Install and run the demos
The demo programs are not installed with the Vision Egg library, but must be downloaded separately (see the downloads page). Running the programs from the command line lets you see any output or errors.
Optional: set your video timing parameters
It is sometimes difficult to get exactly the the video mode that you want with Windows. These applications may help you set non-standard refresh rates.
I recommend you first try RefreshForce (available from http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/). If this doesn't do what you need, get PowerStrip. PowerStrip is a Windows shareware utility to set your video mode for the exact frame rate and resolution you want. Get it from http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm
You may also be interested in trying Refresh Rate Fixer from http://www.radeon2.ru/refreshfix_eng.html This utility updates your Windows registry with new video modes, which you can choose from the normal ''Display Settings->Advanced'' control panel.
Optional: put Python on your path
If you want to run Python direct from the command line, you'll need to have ''python.exe'' on your path. To do this, right click on ''My Computer'' in Windows Explorer or the Desktop. Select ''Properties''. Go to ''Advanced->Environment Variables''. Edit the system variable ''Path'' so that it includes ''C:\Python22'' (for Python 2.2) or ''C:\Python23'' (for Python 2.3).
Optional: install winioport to use the parallel port
Win32 parallel port data acquisition and triggering is currently implemented using the "winioport" module. Get this from Dincer Aydin's webpage. To install, unzip to it's own directory, run InstallDriver.exe. Move winioport.py, windll.py, and calldll.pyd into C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages.
Note: It looks like Dincer Aydin is not updating winioport. I have made dlportio as a drop-in replacement. Recent versions of the Vision Egg should automatically detect dlportio if installed.