gwsmhg

Peter Williams pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au
Wed Jun 17 21:42:29 CDT 2009


Peter Williams wrote:
> Alex K wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Could anyone please help me installing gwsmhg on Windows? I didn't 
>> find ready-to-use binary package, so I tried to run it from Python 
>> scripts myself. But I stuck: python25 - yes
>> pygtk2 - yes
>> pygtksourceview - fail
>> pycairo - yes
>> pygobject2 - yes
>>
>> As I understood, pygtksourceview version 1 required?
> 
> It shouldn't be as I'm using pygtksourceview-2.4.0-1.fc10.x86_64 on my 
> development machine.
> 
>> I can't find compiled module for Python. (no problems finding 
>> pygtksourceview2, but gwsmhg doesn't work with it)
>>
> 
> I suspect this a problem with pygtksourceview2 on Windows rather than 
> with gwsmhg.  Does it work with other programs?
> 
> The next release of gwsmhg will have a work around for this problem by 
> using the normal gtk.TextView widget when pygtksourceview import fails. 
>  This will mean that some minor features (such as a right margin 
> indicator at 80 characters) will be lost.
> 
> In the meantime, the attached patch to v-0.4 should do the same trick.
> 
> Could you let me know if it works?  Plus any other problems encountered 
> on Windows as I am unable to test on Windows at the moment (although I 
> am trying to resurrect an old XP laptop with a broken screen, by 
> plugging it into a TV, to do testing in the future)?

I've got this working and tested a patched gwsmhg which revealed that 
the patch missed one import of gtksourceview.  In 
gswmhg_pkg/file_tree.py replace "gtksourceview" with 
"gwsmhg_pkg.sourceview" and it should work.

Cheers
Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au

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