A little patch to let it run on Windows and others...

[jnko]

In gui.py replace line "CONFIG_FILE = '~/.brother_solver'" with CONFIG_FILE = os.path.expanduser('~/.brother_solver')

In order to install on Windows:

1. Get curl for Windows - just google it
2. Since setuptools for Python3 does not work at all, you should use "Distribute", a fork. http://packages.python.org/distribute/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute

From the bottom of the page to install distribute:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ python distribute_setup.py

1. setup.py install --user
2. Config file needs to be placed into users home (just like as in UN*X)

Works fine in Win32 ;-)

[thammi]

I am quite sure that the change you propose is already included. 'os.path.expanduser()' is called in line 136.

I will include your installation instructions in the readme if that is ok with you.

[jnko]

Yes, you are right. It was already included. Sorry about this.

I'll add a little bit more details about installing on Windows. Additionally I think about extending your project. My main thoughts are:

• Timeout: Send a wrong solved captcha (one or two times) is probably better than send nothing and a get a 7? credits decrease. (Needs to be verified)
• Pause/Play button : When "Waiting" simply pause, otherwise wait until got credits, then pause; when waiting for captcha, do the above and auto-pause.(always useful)
• Zoom: Sometimes captchas are hard to read. Add Zoom, rotate controls, probably with mouse wheel / mouse over
• Notification when a new catcha should be resolved: Bring the window to front, but do nut interrupt the current work. Just take attention (one or two times - see point one, and the auto-pause)

Well these are just my two cents and thoughts. I will investigate it when I've a little bit spare time (which is quite rare ;-)