Joe: I had that problem too as a newbie. I still am not sure where to put modules to load. I am putting them as subdirectories of the python executable files. 1. First you have to check you loaded the "Pyro" module at all. From the cmd line in MS_Windows Python Help () Modules See if Pyro was loaded. It seems you must load pyro to get it to run. 2. Install Pyro and make sure you are successful: you should see a spew of modules loaded in the cmd box if it loads OK. 3. First I ran ephys_server "python ephys_server". You should see a windows box for a opening a port 7766 or the like. Then I ran ephys_gui (I think that ran in python windows as a .pyw file). Then I was able to get to the construction screens you mentioned. Not so simple for us newbies. Ethan. -----Original Message----- From: joe voss [mailto:joe.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:14 AM To: visionegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [visionegg] getting started Hello everybody, I want to perform some electrophysiological experiments on the visual system of birds. As I searched the internet I came accross the Vision Egg programm and when I saw the screenshots of the Ephys_gui I found this programm to fit very well to my experimental setup. I want to present gratings, bars etc with different properties and in varying angles. The problem is that I am new to any programming. I successfully installed the programms as recommended under "Instruction for Python2.3" and downloaded the demos. If I go to the Python folder (using the Windows-"Start"-button - "Programs" - "Python 2.3.4"), I can start: IDLE (python GUI), Module Docs, Python (command line), etc... OK, now my question: how can I make the Ephys_gui run (...if I doubleclic on the demofile nothing happends)? Is there any way to perform easy experiments using Vision Egg without learning a whole programming language (the Ephys_gui seem to provide all parameters I want to be controlled...)? I hope anyone can give me some advice. Thanks in advance. Joe ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html