Instructions for a windows installation:

These instruction can be found in c:\page\doc.

The new installation package is page-2.2.exe. Running the installation program page-2.2.exe does not install Python, Tcl, or Tix. It will be necessary to do those installs separately. Fortunately, they are all standard installations. The steps necessary are the following:

  1. Install Python-2.2 Download Python-2.2.exe and from www.python.org. The default installation directory is C:\Python22 and that is where I put it. To complete the installation you will need to add the installation directory to your path.
  2. Install Tcl. The version that I have been testing with is ActiveTcl8.3.4.1-8.win32-ix86.exe which is available from activestate.com. You may think that Python installs tcl support, but support for executing tcl scripts is missing and that is required for running PAGE. I recommend that you install Tcl into c:\Tcl; it's the default directory. To complete the installation you will need to add the {installation directory}/bin to your path. That is, if you did use c:\Tcl as the installation directory then add C:\Tcl\bin to your path.
  3. Install Tix into the same directory into which you installed Tcl. Unfortunately, the Tix home page does not as yet provided a Tix installer for windows. As a temporary expedient I have provided tix8183_setup.exe. When executing tix8183_setup.exe, use as the installation directory the one used for Tcl. I suspect that soon an official tix installer will be available. Obviously, that is the one you will want to use.
  4. Execute page-2.2.exe to install PAGE and when given a chance to select the input directory make your choice. Obviously, I like c:\page. I recommend that you add the installation directory to your path. As part of executing page-2.2.exe, Tix files will be transfered from the Tcl installation directory to the Python installation directory. This is necessary for executing Tix under Python. A dialog box will appear allowing you to cancel this transfer. In general it is necessary to do it at least once following the Tix install However, it is not necessary to do it repeatedly. This step installs an icon on the desktop. For it to work properly the script winpg.bat mentioned below needs to be set correctly.
  5. The final step is to modify the script winpg.bat in the PAGE install directory to set the correct value of VTCL_HOME to be the name of the page installation directory.
The windows installation of PAGE will move the necessary Tix files from the Tcl installation directory into the Python installation directory tree. So it is necessary to have Tcl and Python installed when you are installing PAGE.

The installation can be tested by executing the following command:

	c:\page\winpg

which will test the PAGE installation itself. When it comes up, try

	 File -> Open -> examples/t3.tcl.

The other interesting command is:

	python t3.py

which runs the the python GUI generated by PAGE.

If things don't seem to work you can try the following steps to confirm the installation.