#🔒 toga help for beginner

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@grizzled lagoon

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high pier
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looks like you did, however click on the 3 dots there, find the option that allows you to view the extension

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yes

feral monolith
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Paste the link to your thread yesterday. This was explained how to pip in your venv

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You can paste a link to a locked thread

high pier
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sorry, it's view > show > file name extensions

feral monolith
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Yes, click one of those messages and copy link

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See the steps you did afterwards

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To activate the environment

potent fjord
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cd is to change directory

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it does not activate a venv

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tho it will be easier to activate your venv if you are in the correct directory

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so why are you using the exact path

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instead of using python

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also when a path contains spaces, you must surround it in quotes

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how do you surround something in quotes?

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well yes, but no

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use python as your venv is active

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ok, what is the goal

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that is very unclear

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why did you open a new cmd window

feral monolith
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I was assuming this: #python-discussion message

potent fjord
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you didn't ask if you were

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what

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ok

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now do python -m pip install toga-demo

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now you tell me what happened

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but there was output in cmd

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just screenshot bro

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ok so it was successful in downloading

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as you can see at the bottom

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ok so make that file

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with that content

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what editor are you using

high pier
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visual studio code, pycharm, etc

potent fjord
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ok so... pycharm makes its own venvs

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potent fjord
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how are there two directories called "venv" there...

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oh one is .venv

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that is surely the one that pycharm created

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god this is a mess

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why do you have "toga-tutorial" inside your "First Try With python" directory?

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it would make sense to be in one directory up

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yes

drowsy beacon
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it might be simpler to rm the directory and just start from the beggining

potent fjord
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yes I would delete all your toga stuff

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and delete the "venv" (not the ".venv")

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above New there

high pier
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i would just delete everything in that folder tbh

potent fjord
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well in that case, delete the directory entirely

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yeah

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you have to close it in pycharm

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pause

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lemme google how to create pycharm projects

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ok, right click that First Try With python and delete it from that menu I guess

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then click New Project and screenshot (when you're back)

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make a good name for your project

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in the style of snake_case

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your_project_name

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probably don't put project in the name

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it's implied that it's a project

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toga_testing or something

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genius

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ok, it is using python 3.11

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do you want that?

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it's ok then

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click create

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now give me a moment

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close the venv folder, you shouldn't change anything in there manually

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and you don't need Explorer open anymore

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just use pycharm

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make a new file via pycharm in your project

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name it like main.py or something, doesn't matter really

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yep looks good

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click on the arrow by the .venv folder to collapse it

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yep

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in the pycharm terminal

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open it and check if the venv is active

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ok great, so now do python -m pip install --upgrade pip to make sure you have the latest version of pip (you probably should? doesn't hurt to check)

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great, now do python -m pip install toga-demo

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yes I just said

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ok

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now paste that code from the tutorial into your main.py file

fierce wharfBOT
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Hey @grizzled lagoon!

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potent fjord
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it should be clear what I'm talking about

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you don't need to post this painful formatting again

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(discord does format stuff with certain characters)

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now, how does the site tell you to run it?

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"yes" is not a valid response to that question lol

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no, you use your brain cells to run a different file

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this tutorial doesn't look great

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running without the -m syntax should work fine

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do python main.py in your terminal

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there yah go

high pier
potent fjord
high pier
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it's part of the toga-demo i believe

high pier
potent fjord
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toga-demo is the site-package

high pier
potent fjord
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what

high pier
potent fjord
potent fjord
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whatever you want

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was just here to get you running

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how is that related to Toga

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"A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit."

high pier
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it's a GUI toolkit, like tkinter.

potent fjord
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it's to make graphical user interfaces

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you didn't make anything

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if you don't have any more questions about installing toga and running their demo, can do !close

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GL

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who's that

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no

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I'm gxþbxi

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that third letter is not a b

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it is "thorn"

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like in the word "think"

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old english letter

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