textext having dependency issues in windows

[wormite]

The current support for GTK seems to be having problems. After the installation of textext, once ran, the python script reports an exception of "Neither pygtk nor Tkinter is available!". I have tried to modify the pygtk import in the textext.py. It seems the pygtk import itself is ok, but the import gtk reports an exception.
I wonder what dependeny is required in order for the import gtk to work under the currently installed site-packages of the python script under windows.
Lun.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Well, as a matter of fact the stable release currently does offer neither tkinter nor pygtk out of the box (exactly as the error message stated).

You might have luck with
- copying tkinter from an official Python 2.7.12 installation
- installing pygtk following the hints at [1]

I have not used an extension requiring these dependencies myself yet (so there might be a better approach) but that's how I'd try to tackle it.

[1] http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

P.S. For pygtk the last bullet point (The PyGTK, PyCairo and PyGObject modules [...]) should probably be sufficient as Inkscape ships with a Python interpreter and gtk+ libraries, but I'm only guessing here, so I might be wrong.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

As we switched our build system / packaging in 0.92.2 this bug is probably obsolete.

That being said
- we now ship tkinter
- it was broken in 0.92.2 but should be fixed for the next version,
  see bug #1735451
- we're actively working with upstream now regarding Windows support,
  see https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext/issues/44/tcl-not-found