could not start boa constructor on windows with python2.7

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I am trying to install Boa Constructor on windows 7. I am using python 27. After installing when i run Boa.py it gave me an error

Starting Boa Constructor v0.6.1
importing wxPython
reading user preferences
Created directory: C:\Users\SONY\.boa-constructor
Created directory: C:\Users\SONY\.boa-constructor\docs-cache
Created directory: C:\Users\SONY\.boa-constructor\Plug-ins
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\boa-constructor\Boa.py", line 271, in <mod
ule>
    import Preferences, Utils
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\boa-constructor\Preferences.py", line 151,
 in <module>
    execfile(file)
  File "C:\Users\SONY\.boa-constructor\prefs.rc.py", line 26, in <module>
    splitterStyle = wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE | wx.SP_3DSASH | wx.NO_3D
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'NO_3D'

Can somebody please help

Try using an up to date rad tool such as wxformbuilder – user2963623 Jul 24 '14 at 15:48 — user2963623, Jul 24 '14 at 15:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 13:27

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Boa Constructor appears to be importing wx incorrectly. It should not be doing this: import wxPython. That was deprecated many years ago. I am guessing you are using wxPython 3.x, which Boa Constructor does not support. If you want to continue using this tool, you will have to downgrade your wxPython installation.

answered Jul 24 '14 at 13:27

Mike Driscoll

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No the problem was with the NO_3D not defined .. once i defined it in the __init__ method to 0... it worked – Prakhar Jul 25 '14 at 12:00
If you're defining it yourself, then that just proves the issue I was talking about. wxPython has removed wx.NO_3D. You should read this other post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21304450/can-not-start-boa-constructor-successfully as it sounds like you may need to modify Boa Constructor's source to completely get rid of this issue. – Mike Driscoll Jul 25 '14 at 13:11
yeah after defining that value it is working fine .. i am able to create and run my gui perfectly – Prakhar Jul 25 '14 at 20:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '14 at 13:55

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I too faced the same problem and downgrading to wxPython version 2.8.12.1 worked for me.

answered Nov 11 '14 at 13:55

varun

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '14 at 15:46

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If you want to keep using Boa you might want to look at this fork of it.

https://bitbucket.org/cwt/boa-constructor

Looks pretty active and seems to be running against recent versions of wxPython.

answered Nov 11 '14 at 15:46

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 06 '14 at 19:23

to run the BOA Constructor in Python 2.7, you can use wxPython version 2.8.11.0. or 2.8.12.1

for a more complete solution, you can read it here : http://sourceforge.net/p/boa-constructor/discussion/5483/thread/e6f45f66/

to download wxpython version above, please go to here : http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#wxpython

could not start boa constructor on windows with python2.7

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