Features¶
This section shows all available packages after successful installation together with features the KivyInstaller provides.
Packages¶
- docutils
- Kivy-Garden
- pip
- Pygments
- PyInstaller
- pypiwin32
- requests
- setuptools
- wget
- wheel
Extra packages¶
There are optional packages you may want to install later (see kivy help
command), however compilers need some post-install editing, otherwise they
won’t work with Kivy. A command for installing compiler also opens
a documentation page related to the chosen compiler if available:
- Kivy Designer
- MinGWPy (GCC)
- Visual C++ 9.0 standalone compiler (MSVC)
- Visual C++ 10.0 standalone SDK (MSVC)
- Visual C++ 14.0 Build Tools 2015 (MSVC)
Extra PATH¶
Since 1.4
there is a new empty file extrapath.kivyinstaller
available
that provides a user an easy way to extend PATH
without using set
command manually on each run of cmd.exe
or edit environment variables.
The PATH from extrapath
file will be also available in every shortcut i.e.
Quick Launch, Send To, even Taskbar if you create shortcut for it
manually.
Usage¶
Just paste a new path as it is, without quotes or any other extra characters
into the file. The path separator for Windows is a backslash (\
).
Example:
C:\Users\John
For more paths, separate them with semicolon as in casual PATH
setting:
C:\Users\John;C:\Users\Guest
Do not end the line with a semicolon or write multiple lines. The file works in a single line mode.
Shortcuts¶
There’s an option to allow creating shortcuts for your installation. Those will
be placed into two locations: Send to
and Quick Launch
.
Running .py
file with Send to
option works on WinXP and higher, however
taskbar shortcut works only on WinXP and WinVista. The taskbar item runs either
as a console, or uses a file that can be drag&dropped to it. The shortcut will
run the file directly as if python.exe
was called.
Useful for running snippets of code from your desktop. Shortcuts are removed
together with all other data after kivy uninstall
.
Win7+¶
On Windows 7 and higher the taskbar has a different functionality than original
Quick Launch
, therefore a bad workaround is to drag&drop a manually created
shortcut for kivy.bat
to the taskbar, however script drag&dropping won’t
work this way.
To make drag&dropping work, re-enable Quick Launch
in your system.