<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Firstly, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to help me.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I have carried out the steps you suggested.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I also entered the "set build commands" page and in the field to the right of the execute field I entered "%e;"</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Now when I try to execute</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I get a "C:\ WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" window opening,saying</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>access denied</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>press any key to continue...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>when I press any key, the following message flashes up momentarily</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>the batch file cannot be found.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I don't know if that means anything to you or not.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>but as I say thanks for trying to help, I do appreciate it</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On
Tuesday, 2 September 2014, 22:37, Matthew Brush <mbrush@codebrainz.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 14-09-02 11:44 AM, james bernard wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I am a 61 year old total novice, and I would like to use GEANY as an IDE for the PYTHON programming language.<br clear="none">> I have a HP laptop with windows 8.1 installed and I have downloaded PYTHON 2.7.8 and GEANY 1.24. when I try to execute some code I have written I get the following error message.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 19:41:30: Failed to execute "(null)" (start-script could not be created: Failed to create file: Permission denied)<br clear="none">> Can anyone help me get started<br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">When Geany runs your Python script, it first writes a "runner" script to <br clear="none">allow you to see
the output of the Python script. It sounds like it's <br clear="none">trying create it in a non-accessible directory. You might be able to <br clear="none">make it work by right-clicking on the shortcut to Geany and in the <br clear="none">properties window, change the "Start in" directory to something inside <br clear="none">your personal directory (probably something like "C:\Users\You\Projects" <br clear="none">or whatever you want, as long as it's under your personal directory). <br clear="none">Alternatively, your Python script itself might be in a non-writable <br clear="none">directory, which might also cause this problem. You should move it to <br clear="none">anywhere under your personal directory (as above).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This might allow Geany to create this run script. If it's not that, <br clear="none">someone else might have a better idea, I'm far from a Win8 expert :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers,<br
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