fails to install on windows

[tolomea]

Trying to install this on a win7 machine I get the following stack:

$ python setup.py install Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 20, in from gtkspellcheck import version File "c:\code\pygtkspellcheck\src\gtkspellcheckinit.py", line 37, in import gtk File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gtkinit.py", line 30, in import gobject as _gobject File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gobjectinit.py", line 26, in from glib import spawn_async, idle_add, timeout_add, timeout_add_seconds, \ File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\glibinit.py", line 22, in from glib._glib import * ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

here's some version info

$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import gtk gtk.ver (2, 28, 3)

Any suggestions about what might be going wrong?

[koehlma]

Hmmm... I searched a little bit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6079685/what-is-wrong-with-my-windows-gtk-for-python-installation Have you tried this so far? Because I have no Windows 7 installation at the moment I can't test this my self.

[tolomea]

Yeah, and various other variations on that theme, none of which helped, although remarkably I don't seem to have broken my system yet. Perhaps I should give up and setup a linux virtual machine.

[tolomea]

The odd thing and what I suspect is the key to this mess, is that I can import gtk from the python prompt with no problems. It's only when running your setup.py that it fails.

[tolomea]

It seems to be the import of enchant, if I comment that out of init.py then the setup install runs and I fail at runtime with:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 12, in from gtkspellcheck import SpellChecker, languages, language_exists ImportError: cannot import name languages

[tolomea]

putting the enchant import after the gtk import has the same effect as commenting it out, specifically the languages import error above, here's the enchant version if that helps any

C:\code\blog>python Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import enchant enchant.version '1.6.5'

[koehlma]

If you are using the newest version, there was an API change. There is no language list and language_exists on module level anymore. Please check the documentation http://koehlma.github.com/pygtkspellcheck/ or the new example. There is a languages attribute for every SpellCheck instance because the list can vary if you set for example a different dictionary directory for each enchant.Broker. So, adapt your application and try it again with the enchant import behind the gtk import. What happens?

[tolomea]

Yeah, that got me past the pygtkspellcheck specific problems, now I'm just bashing up against not having gi.repository which has broken all of my code. I'm not clear why I don't have that or even if I'm supposed to have it, do you know anything about gi.repository on windows?

[koehlma]

There is no GObject-Introspection for windows yet. (Except if you use Cygwin - if I remember right)

You have to backport your application to PyGTK. Indeed you have to maintain 3 versions of your application - like pygtkspellcheck does. PyGTK with Gtk 2, GObject-Introspection with Gtk 2 and GObject-Introspection with Gtk 3.

[tolomea]

awesome, that's going to be a touch tedious, thanks for the help, I'll let you know how it goes

[koehlma]

I fixed the import issue, now you only have to backport your application - good luck

[tolomea]

I have the backport done and everything seems to be working fine, including the spell checking. Having done my backport I'm curious about a couple of things in yours.

    if _gobject:
        menu = gtk.Menu.new()
    else:
        menu = gtk.Menu()

Under gobject I don't use the new function in places like this, I just call the default constructor, so I don't need the if statement at all, is this required for a gobject 2/3 difference? or is it redundant?

window = gtk.Window.new(gtk.WindowType(0))

Why is the gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL constant not used here instead of the explicit 0?

[tolomea]

btw, thanks for your help and for creating the spellchecker in the first place

[koehlma]

I think code says more than thousand words:

if _gobject:
    menu = gtk.Menu.new()
else:
    menu = gtk.Menu()

>>> gtk.Window(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                                                        
TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)                                                                                                                                                                            
>>> gtk.Window.new(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL)                                                                                                                                                                                                  
<Window object at 0x1e3fe60 (GtkWindow at 0x1ecf090)> >>> gtk.Window(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL) 

(the new method is like the original C method - http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ - sometimes it works without new and sometimes not, so I decided to use new everytime)

There is no gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL constant over gi.repository.

>>> gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 243, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self._introspection_module, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 105, in __getattr__
    self.__name__, name))
AttributeError: 'gi.repository.Gtk' object has no attribute 'WINDOW_TOPLEVEL'
>>> gtk.WindowType(0)
<enum GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL of type GtkWindowType>

But I think I could use gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL instead (or do you mean this by gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL).

[tolomea]

(the new method is like the original C method - http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ - sometimes it works without new and sometimes not, so I decided to use new everytime)

I understand that reasoning, I took the opposite approach of only using new where it was required in order to minimise the number of places where I switch on _gobject

gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL

I may have confused things here, this was not about sharing code between gobject and gtk, it was purely about gtk style, I see you've changed it now.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, koehlma < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I think code says more than thousand words:

if _gobject: menu = gtk.Menu.new() else: menu = gtk.Menu()

gtk.Window(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: GObject.init() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) gtk.Window.new(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL) <Window object at 0x1e3fe60 (GtkWindow at 0x1ecf090)> >>> gtk.Window(gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL)

(the new method is like the original C method - http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ - sometimes it works without new and sometimes not, so I decided to use new everytime)

There is no gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL constant over gi.repository.

gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 243, in getattr return getattr(self._introspection_module, name) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 105, in getattr self.name, name)) AttributeError: 'gi.repository.Gtk' object has no attribute 'WINDOW_TOPLEVEL' gtk.WindowType(0)

But I think I could use gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL instead (or do you mean this by gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL).

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