Trying out Kivy

[Cecil Westerhof]

On Friday 13 Nov 2015 20:53 CET, Michael Torrie wrote:

> On 11/13/2015 11:30 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> On Friday 13 Nov 2015 18:21 CET, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/13/2015 09:33 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>> I tried to install pygame and PIL with pip3, but that did not
>>>> find anything.
>>>
>>> The replacement for PIL is called Pillow. I'm not sure if it's a
>>> drop-in replacement or not. If it's not, then you'd have to modify
>>> Kivy to import from Pillow. Pillow does support Python3.
>>
>> After installing Pillow the error about PIL disappeared, but I got
>> new errors about bcm and x11.
>
> Traceback?

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[INFO              ] [Logger      ] Record log in /home/cecil/.kivy/logs/kivy_15-11-13_28.txt
[INFO              ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.0
[INFO              ] [Python      ] v3.4.1 (default, May 23 2014, 17:48:28) [GCC]
[INFO              ] [Factory     ] 173 symbols loaded
[INFO              ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_gif, img_pil (img_pygame, img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO              ] [Text        ] Provider: pil(['text_pygame'] ignored)
[CRITICAL          ] [Window      ] Unable to find any valuable Window provider at all!
egl_rpi - ImportError: cannot import name 'bcm'
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/window/window_egl_rpi.py", line 12, in <module>
    from kivy.lib.vidcore_lite import bcm, egl

pygame - ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/window/window_pygame.py", line 8, in <module>
    import pygame

x11 - ImportError: No module named 'kivy.core.window.window_x11'
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/core/__init__.py", line 57, in core_select_lib
    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)

[CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Window, abort.
 Exception ignored in: 'kivy.properties.dpi2px'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/utils.py", line 360, in __get__
     retval = self.func(inst)
   File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/metrics.py", line 169, in dpi
     EventLoop.ensure_window()
   File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 126, in ensure_window
     sys.exit(1)
 SystemExit: 1
[CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Window, abort.


I see a difference with python2. (Did not notice it before.) With
python3 v1.9.0 is installed, but with python2 v1.8.0.
    [INFO              ] Kivy v1.8.0

Maybe that is the problem?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof