This article supplements either Enthought training class setup instructions, or the article Using the Enthought Deployment Manager (EDM) with the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE.
Install the Enthought Deployment Manager (EDM)
Recent EDM installers for the Mac are not signed. This is because of changed Apple signing procedures, which we have no current plans to implement.
If you have admin rights to the machine, we recommend that you install the latest version. One method is to right-click on the downloaded .pkg file, click Open while holding down the Shift key, then "Yes" to "are you sure?" Or you can install EDM 2.1.0 which is signed with Apple's previous procedure, and should suffice for many purposes. For the differences, see http://docs.enthought.com/edm/dev/history.html .
Install Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Microsoft provides the VS Code installer for macOS as a .zip file containing "Visual Studio Code.app" When unzipping, please drag this application to your Mac Applications folder rather than leaving it in your Downloads folder.
Launch VS Code from a command line, not from icon or Spotlight
It is necessary to launch VS Code from Terminal by typing the command code , rather than from a desktop or dock icon or Spotlight. Note that if you already launched VS Code from an icon or Spotlight, you must completely quit it before restarting it from Terminal, otherwise you are not really restarting it, just switching to it.
By default on macOS, VS Code does not enable launching from Terminal. You can enable this either by following these instructions from Microsoft, or by adding a "soft link" to VS Code in a directory that is already on your PATH. To add such a link, copy/paste the following long command into a Terminal, then enter your macOS login password when prompted:
sudo ln -s "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code" /usr/local/bin/code
Whichever way you enable it, you can then launch VS Code by opening a Mac Terminal window and entering the following command:
code
or, if you also have conda installed on your system:
conda deactivate
code
[Fixed] Python graphics on macOS Big Sur
This only applies to Python environments built from pre-2021 packages, and not updated.
If you are using Enthought Python to create graphics (plotting or GUI) using the widely-used Qt graphics backend, as is standard in Enthought training courses, and you still have a qt version older than 5.12 installed, and for some reason you cannot update the packages in this Python environment, then you will need to set the environment variable QT_MAC_WANTS_LAYER=1. A simple way to do this is: in Terminal, before starting VS Code in Terminal, enter this command:
export QT_MAC_WANTS_LAYER=1
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