[Nvda-dev] How to get the source code to NVDA?

Søren Jensen slj at coolfortheblind.dk
Mon Aug 18 16:16:41 UTC 2008


Hi Peter.

It works now.
I picked the wrong file from source forge.net. I didn't noticed that they 
have put the oldest file at the top...
Best regards Søren.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Vágner" <peter.v at datagate.sk>
To: "News and discussion for NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access),a free and open 
source screen reader for Microsoft Windows" <nvda-dev at lists.nvaccess.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nvda-dev] How to get the source code to NVDA?


> Hello,
> A few things you should check:
> 1) have you extracted misc dependencies?
> 2) are you runing comtypes 0.4.2 or never?
> 3) have you got unicode version of wxpython?
> 4) have you installed Python Windows Extensions (for python 2.5), build 
> 210
> All these are also listed in the dependencies.txt file in the same
> folder where source folder is located.
>
> If this does not help you can post your nvda.log file. For source code
> version of NVDA this is generated in the same folder where nvda.pyw is.
>
> Thanks for the interest
>
> Peter
>
> Søren Jensen  wrote:
>> Hi Aleksey.
>>
>> Yeah. I have runned the generate.py file, and it seems to compile it
>> successfully.
>>
>> Best regards Søren.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Aleksey"<aleksey_s at voliacable.com>
>> To: "News and discussion for NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access),a free and 
>> open
>> source screen reader for Microsoft Windows"<nvda-dev at lists.nvaccess.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nvda-dev] How to get the source code to NVDA?
>>
>>
>> Hello, Søren!
>>
>> Sunday, August 17, 2008, 2:39:50 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> SJ>  installing the file called: py2exe-0.6.8.win32-py2.3.exe. When I try 
>> to
>> SJ>  install it, I got the following message:
>> this is old version for python 2.3, becouse nvda is written with
>> python 2.5 you ofcourse need all depts for this python version.
>> SJ>  When I try to run the nvda.pyw file, the NVDA startup sound plays, 
>> then
>> the
>> SJ>  windows error sound and finally the program closes. It doesn't gives 
>> me
>> any
>> SJ>  errors in text.
>> in all cases as i know py2exe is not required to run nvda from the
>> sources, only for compile it. so your error not depends on the package
>> py2exe. for consistense: have you run generate.py file before
>> attempting to start nvda.pyw?
>>
>>
>>
>
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