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Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping tool (and looking for maintainers)
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Windows 8 #13

Open gschulfer opened 9 years ago

gschulfer commented 9 years ago

my machine was upgraded to Windows 8 for work and Labyrinth stopped launching. any idea if there's a simple fix? thanks!

takluyver commented 9 years ago

It may be as simple as rebuilding the installer with a newer version of PyNSIST - some of the earlier versions caused problems on recent Windows versions. I have a Windows 7 VM I can test on. Or it may be some other issue. Does it give any kind of error message?

gschulfer commented 9 years ago

no, for me simply nothing happens...

takluyver commented 9 years ago

hmm. Can you try opening a command prompt, going to the directory where it's installed (probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Labyrinth, and running it with py Labyrinth.launch.py. There might be an error that you don't see.

gschulfer commented 9 years ago

nothing's happening sadly. screenshot attached

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hmm. Can you try opening a command prompt, going to the directory where it's installed (probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Labyrinth, and running it with py Labyrinth.launch.py. There might be an error that you don't see.

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takluyver commented 9 years ago

The attachment didn't make it, unfortunately - I think you need to go to Github, and drag the file onto the comment box.

takluyver commented 9 years ago

I've just tried it on my Windows 7 VM, and it still works.

It just occurred to me: when you say it was upgraded, do you actually mean that Windows was upgraded and you're still using the same installation of Labyrinth? If so, try uninstalling it and reinstalling it; it might start working.

If it's still not working: can you start Python, which should have been installed along with Labyrinth?

gschulfer commented 9 years ago

sorry, i didn't upload that screenshot yesterday. here it is. i uninstalled and reinstalled Labyrinth and Python a couple times using the 0.6 Windows installer you created a few months ago, but no luck. Python opens fine. thanks as always for your help! labyrinth-command-prompt

takluyver commented 9 years ago

Oh, wait, I forgot that I made it log errors to a file (d'oh!). Go and find %APPDATA%\Labyrinth.launch.pyw.log - the contents of that should show what the error is.

%APPDATA% is typically C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming, though it may be different if work sets up your computer.