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Installing on Windows 8.1

Open TuggyNE opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

How do I get this to work? I gather this is a Python 2 script, so I tried installing wxpython with the Python 2.7 pip, but I get a build error since I only have VS 2015 (and 2019) and not the ancient VC++9 build environment.

Running with Python 3 (which somehow can install wxpython just fine) doesn't seem too workable either, even with 2to3. I'm not much of a Python programmer, so AttributeError: module 'wx' has no attribute 'TaskBarIcon' on line 1892 is pretty daunting.

TuggyNE avatar Jan 06 '22 06:01 TuggyNE

Well, for future generations, the solution at present is actually pretty simple. There is at least one fork (pixelbath's) that has been successfully ported to Python 3 and suffers only mild, probably idiosyncratic locale problems when performing the basic function of capturing webcam images. (I have not tried https://github.com/IsenfireLDC/chronolapse or https://github.com/ZirconCode/chronolapse, which also purport to be Python 3 conversions. They may have the same bug or may have fixed it, or have other bugs instead.)

TuggyNE avatar Jan 06 '22 06:01 TuggyNE

Thanks for looking at that and suggesting some forks! Fork authors - feel free to create PRs!

collingreen avatar Feb 03 '22 19:02 collingreen