I cant create my first presentation even though I followed the instructions provided.

[Ammar34]

I am trying to render my first presentation but I am getting an error that says no config file found. it asks me to use Slide as base class for scene which i am doing as is evident in the following code: P.S i am using manimCE v0.6.0

from manim import *
from mytextemplate import *
from manim_presentation import Slide

class Testing(Slide):
    def construct(self):
        introduction = MyTexTemplate("Introduction",tex_type = "tex",font = "Alegreya-Regular")
        self.add(introduction)
        self.wait(1)
        self.pause()

The introduction variable is created and uses a custom module that I modified to suit my needs. Following is the error code after the using manim_presentation Testing File "C:\Users\khans\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\manim_presentation-script.py", line 33, in sys.exit(load_entry_point('manim-presentation==0.1.3', 'console_scripts', 'manim_presentation')()) File "c:\users\khans\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\manim_presentation\present.py", line 238, in main raise Exception(f"File {config_file} does not exist, check the scene name and make sure to use Slide as your scene base class") Exception: File ./presentation\Testing.json does not exist, check the scene name and make sure to use Slide as your scene base class

[Ammar34]

i even tried the example.py but got the same error.

[galatolofederico]

Hi, this is very likely due to the fact that i wrote and tested manim-presentation on Linux. Can you try running it inside WSL?

[Ammar34]

Sure, i will give it a try and see if it works.

[Ammar34]

However, can you pls do some testing and make it work on windows?

[mxsdev]

Works for me on Windows 10 Pro x64 10.0.19042 Build 19042. Are you cd'ed into the local directory?

If not then the issue may be this line in present.py:

parser.add_argument("--folder", type=str, default="./presentation", help="Presentation files folder")

Perhaps changing "./presentation" to os.path.normcase("./presentation") is necessary.

[Ammar34]

Works for me on Windows 10 Pro x64 10.0.19042 Build 19042. Are you cd'ed into the local directory?

If not then the issue may be this line in present.py:

parser.add_argument("--folder", type=str, default="./presentation", help="Presentation files folder")

Perhaps changing "./presentation" to os.path.normcase("./presentation") is necessary.

I will try that today, I installed the manim-presentation in python site-packages and that is already added to the path. i dont know what you mean by cd'ing into the local directory. I tried looking for presentation folder in directory where my test file resides but its not there. Pls do elaborate.

[Ammar34]

I found the presentation folder and json file in the local directory. I just have to rerun the program and make the change suggested by @charburgx. hope it works

[galatolofederico]

Hi @charburgx thanks for the insight! I added os.path.normcase in 4216299.