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ShellRox

Reputation: 2602

Installing Kivy-designer

I was wondering if there's an easy way to install kivy-designer. I am on Mac OS X and followed all the steps to install Kivy itself but when i tried to open application, it wasn't responding. However, when i wrote "kivy" in console, it launched the Python shell and I had no errors after executing command "import kivy":

[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/.kivy/logs/kivy_16-03-31_1.txt



[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.1

[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.5.0 (default, Dec 12 2015, 05:50:29) 

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)]

Then i tried to install kivy-designer , using git, on the first try i got error that i needed to install cython, after i fixed it, by installing it with homebrew, new error appeared: 

[CRITICAL] [Text        ] Unable to find any valuable Text provider at all!

pygame - ImportError: No module named pygame

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 59, in core_select_lib

    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pygame.py", line 12, in <module>

    import pygame




pil - ImportError: No module named PIL

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 59, in core_select_lib

    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/core/text/text_pil.py", line 8, in <module>

    from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw




[CRITICAL] [App         ] Unable to get a Text provider, abort.

I tried to install pyGame using homebrew

Also tried this:

 git clone http://github.com/tito/osxrelocator

and even tried to reinstall Kivy with git:

git clone http://github.com/kivy/kivy

.

But i was getting same errors, without any updates.

Update:

Now i also tried:

kivy main.py but i got this error:

   File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
     from designer.app import DesignerApp
   File "/Users/macbook/kivy-designer/kivy-designer/designer/app.py", line 8, in <module>
     from designer.add_file import AddFileDialog
   File "/Users/macbook/kivy-designer/kivy-designer/designer/add_file.py", line 5, in <module>
     from kivy.garden.filebrowser import FileBrowser
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 636, in _load_backward_compatible
 KeyError: 'kivy.garden.filebrowser'

Anyways, my question is:

is there any way to install Kivy-designer app easily on Mac OS X?, or how can i fix these errors ?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4561

Answers (2)

pab4ing
pab4ing

Reputation: 21

If you use the osx .app package it's very important that you follow the explanations here https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-osx.html.

That means for Python modules (it this case to install the dependencies for kivy-designer): 

kivy -m pip install <modulename>

In order to use binaries installed as mentioned above (like kivy-garden) you have to activate the virtual environment. In this example to install filebrowser.

source /Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/activate
garden install filebrowser
deactivate

Now I have observed that even by doing this last, filebrowser was being installed under homedirectory/.kivy/garden/garden.filebrowser. This was generating the error KeyError: 'kivy.garden.filebrowser' because it couldn't find it.

The solution here is to copy the files from garden.filebrowser into /Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/kivy/kivy/garden

With this it should be all fine to start kivy-designer:

kivy -m designer

It took me a bit of time to find this. Hope this can help :)

Upvotes: 0

ShellRox
ShellRox

Reputation: 2602

Ok i found on how to solve this error, Thanks to zeeMonkeez for helping me:

The problem is that Homebrew is installing PyGame wrongly.

If your PyGame is not getting imported.

You need to try:

pip install hg+bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

and then upgrading pip:

pip install --upgrade pip

It should open main.py without any errors.

Upvotes: 1

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