I agree about the wine layer. Not my favorite choice, but I’ve got some commitments to deal with.
Yes, actually, I did see your post but didn’t work for me - After 50 million searches and installs I can’t remember what the specific problem was, but it didn’t solve it for me. However, it did motivate my own solution although that was before I ran into the $var problem. I was just happy PsychoPy launched and seemed to be functional.
Apparently, the 2023.1.1.zip and the 2023.1.1.tar.gz files on github extract as 2023.1.1, but the PsychoPy that launches is actually 2022.1.4. Which may have caused the original problems. I’ve now downloaded the 2023.1.2 and that’s the one that seemed to work – except for the $var problem. It’s so maddening because it only affects the text component – any other component (sound, movie, image) happily accepts $var. And, everything else runs as it should.
Re the paramsCtrl.py file I did do a global search and no luck. I will do another deep dive into the .wine directory and see if there’s anything there.