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.