I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io <nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io> On Behalf Of Travis Roth
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 10:04 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Ok that makes since.  And it works partly.   I also need to use the PIL library so when I did the old plugin I put the package for PIL and the package for aenum in the folder. And then referenced them just like I would any other time.  Now that is not working.  The following is the code I used before what do I need to do now.  Is there a better way to include two packages that are not installed with NVDA.

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Add bundled copy of PIL to module search path.

sys.path.append(os.path.join(PLUGIN_DIR, "PIL"))

import ImageGrab

del sys.path[-1]

I have another set of this code in graphit.py to import from aenum but it used to be

From aenum import IntFlag

From aenum import enum

Now that will not work.  I tried doing all kinds of things for the above problem but I am at a loss how to fix it.  Is there a way to install packages into plugins now or is there some python way to fix this.

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Ok I am stuck.  Is there some way to install packages because so far nothing I do has made it so I can use the following packages in a plugin

Aenum, and pillow. 

If I was writing a regular python program I would just pip install the packages and be done.  Since this is enclosed in nvda this does not work.  I don’t see anything in the development documents about this problem.   Is it that no one uses external packages with their plugins?  That is a big shocking.

Ken

Ok that makes since.  And it works partly.   I also need to use the PIL library so when I did the old plugin I put the package for PIL and the package for aenum in the folder. And then referenced them just like I would any other time.  Now that is not working.  The following is the code I used before what do I need to do now.  Is there a better way to include two packages that are not installed with NVDA.

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Add bundled copy of PIL to module search path.

sys.path.append(os.path.join(PLUGIN_DIR, "PIL"))

import ImageGrab

del sys.path[-1]

I have another set of this code in graphit.py to import from aenum but it used to be

From aenum import IntFlag

From aenum import enum

Now that will not work.  I tried doing all kinds of things for the above problem but I am at a loss how to fix it.  Is there a way to install packages into plugins now or is there some python way to fix this.

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Hi,

Resource Monitor uses psutil module.

To use external Python modules, you must copy the contents of the module to the place where you need to use it. For example, to use psutil inside a global plugin named “something”, you must copy the psutil module folder itself to globalPlugins/something and import it from __init__.py. This will work well if the module uses Python standard libraries that ships with NVDA (as part of its package process, Python will call py2exe to package NVDA modules and dependencies inside an executable archive powered by NSIS, as py2exe will pick up libraires that NVDA and its dependencies import).

Cheers,

Joseph

Ok I am stuck.  Is there some way to install packages because so far nothing I do has made it so I can use the following packages in a plugin

Aenum, and pillow. 

If I was writing a regular python program I would just pip install the packages and be done.  Since this is enclosed in nvda this does not work.  I don’t see anything in the development documents about this problem.   Is it that no one uses external packages with their plugins?  That is a big shocking.

Ken

Ok that makes since.  And it works partly.   I also need to use the PIL library so when I did the old plugin I put the package for PIL and the package for aenum in the folder. And then referenced them just like I would any other time.  Now that is not working.  The following is the code I used before what do I need to do now.  Is there a better way to include two packages that are not installed with NVDA.

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Add bundled copy of PIL to module search path.

sys.path.append(os.path.join(PLUGIN_DIR, "PIL"))

import ImageGrab

del sys.path[-1]

I have another set of this code in graphit.py to import from aenum but it used to be

From aenum import IntFlag

From aenum import enum

Now that will not work.  I tried doing all kinds of things for the above problem but I am at a loss how to fix it.  Is there a way to install packages into plugins now or is there some python way to fix this.

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Hi,

Resource Monitor uses psutil module.

To use external Python modules, you must copy the contents of the module to the place where you need to use it. For example, to use psutil inside a global plugin named “something”, you must copy the psutil module folder itself to globalPlugins/something and import it from __init__.py. This will work well if the module uses Python standard libraries that ships with NVDA (as part of its package process, Python will call py2exe to package NVDA modules and dependencies inside an executable archive powered by NSIS, as py2exe will pick up libraires that NVDA and its dependencies import).

Cheers,

Joseph

Ok I am stuck.  Is there some way to install packages because so far nothing I do has made it so I can use the following packages in a plugin

Aenum, and pillow. 

If I was writing a regular python program I would just pip install the packages and be done.  Since this is enclosed in nvda this does not work.  I don’t see anything in the development documents about this problem.   Is it that no one uses external packages with their plugins?  That is a big shocking.

Ken

Ok that makes since.  And it works partly.   I also need to use the PIL library so when I did the old plugin I put the package for PIL and the package for aenum in the folder. And then referenced them just like I would any other time.  Now that is not working.  The following is the code I used before what do I need to do now.  Is there a better way to include two packages that are not installed with NVDA.

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Add bundled copy of PIL to module search path.

sys.path.append(os.path.join(PLUGIN_DIR, "PIL"))

import ImageGrab

del sys.path[-1]

I have another set of this code in graphit.py to import from aenum but it used to be

From aenum import IntFlag

From aenum import enum

Now that will not work.  I tried doing all kinds of things for the above problem but I am at a loss how to fix it.  Is there a way to install packages into plugins now or is there some python way to fix this.

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Hi,

Resource Monitor uses psutil module.

To use external Python modules, you must copy the contents of the module to the place where you need to use it. For example, to use psutil inside a global plugin named “something”, you must copy the psutil module folder itself to globalPlugins/something and import it from __init__.py. This will work well if the module uses Python standard libraries that ships with NVDA (as part of its package process, Python will call py2exe to package NVDA modules and dependencies inside an executable archive powered by NSIS, as py2exe will pick up libraires that NVDA and its dependencies import).

Cheers,

Joseph

Ok I am stuck.  Is there some way to install packages because so far nothing I do has made it so I can use the following packages in a plugin

Aenum, and pillow. 

If I was writing a regular python program I would just pip install the packages and be done.  Since this is enclosed in nvda this does not work.  I don’t see anything in the development documents about this problem.   Is it that no one uses external packages with their plugins?  That is a big shocking.

Ken

Ok that makes since.  And it works partly.   I also need to use the PIL library so when I did the old plugin I put the package for PIL and the package for aenum in the folder. And then referenced them just like I would any other time.  Now that is not working.  The following is the code I used before what do I need to do now.  Is there a better way to include two packages that are not installed with NVDA.

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Add bundled copy of PIL to module search path.

sys.path.append(os.path.join(PLUGIN_DIR, "PIL"))

import ImageGrab

del sys.path[-1]

I have another set of this code in graphit.py to import from aenum but it used to be

From aenum import IntFlag

From aenum import enum

Now that will not work.  I tried doing all kinds of things for the above problem but I am at a loss how to fix it.  Is there a way to install packages into plugins now or is there some python way to fix this.

Hi,

You must use relative import like so:

from . import modname

This, by the way, also works in Python 2.

Cheers,

Joseph

I think this changed in python3 and I usually have to mess around until it works. I don’t know the directory structure you have, but for something like

\addon\appModules\appllicationName

If you then have __init__.py and myModule.py and myFunctions.py you need to tell it to look in the current directory for other files in that folder such as

import .myModule

from .myFunctions import makeBraille, makeSpeech

I have an old global plug in for before NVDA was switched to  3.x   It worked fine and I have fixed all the problems that have to do with the difference in python types.

Here is the problem I have several python files in the global plugin.  The

__init__.py file has an import like this:

Import myclass

Then there is a file in the same folder

Myclass.py

The global plugin can not find the file I am importing.  It used to work fine is there some new thing I have to do to let the global plugin know where my other classes are? Note I have my global plugin in a folder like myplugin under the developer scratchpad folder and I know it is at least being found because if I take the class I am importing out the key press works fine and presents the message I want it to.     In the log though it says it can’t find myclass module.

Ken

Ok. I just changed my modules I am using to the 3.7 versions since
that is what nvda is using. I moved them into my graphiti folder so that:
Scratchpad\globalplugins\graphiti\PIL

Scratchpad is not for simple modules it is for developing modules of any

" About PIL/Pillow, what procedure you have follow to collect its files?"
I don't understand what your asking here.

Ah Ok to be clear about the whole process.

I have created a Graphiti folder which will be a global plugin. This
plugin worked in the past. It is currently under scratchpad global plugins.

I used pip in my windows python3.7.2 since that is what I saw NVDA was
using to pip install pillow and aenum. My test program to do what I
want the plugin to do works fine outside of NVDA.

I Then copied pil, a pil folder from site-packages, pillow dist file
and aenum from the site-packages folder and an aenum file into the
graphiti folder.
I also have one Graphiti.py in the graphiti folder that is the code
that controls the graphiti. Finally I have the script for NVDA
__init__.py

All of that is in the graphiti folder. I copied it using the windows GUI
copy so it should have copied the entire folder. I do wish that NVDA
had a pip of its own or some system that add-ons or plugins could add
libraries without copying.

This all worked in the older nvda. Again I test by commenting out the
librarys and the plugin is definitely being activated because I can
see my messages. I am more than willing to zip this up if experts out
there think they can see the problem.

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Alberto Buffolino
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:54 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

Ken Perry, il 16/01/2022 19.34, ha scritto:

Scratchpad is not for simple modules it is for developing modules of
any

kind as far as I know.
Alberto:
I'm not sure, I remember errors on absence of GlobalPlugin class, like
if NVDA would want to find only NVDA modules, and to redistribute you
should change folder structure and code accordingly, so... but ok,
this is a my personal opinion.

" About PIL/Pillow, what procedure you have follow to collect its files?"
I don't understand what your asking here.

Alberto:
I'm asking what actions you have done to populate PIL folder, or where
you copied it from.
Have you installed it via pip and then copied some files? Or have you
downloaded Pillow-9.0.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl from Pypi and then
extracted the PIL folder?
I suspect the latter is a good procedure, but I not tested yet.
Alberto

Ah Ok to be clear about the whole process.

I have created a Graphiti folder which will be a global plugin. This
plugin worked in the past. It is currently under scratchpad global plugins.

I used pip in my windows python3.7.2 since that is what I saw NVDA was
using to pip install pillow and aenum. My test program to do what I
want the plugin to do works fine outside of NVDA.

I Then copied pil, a pil folder from site-packages, pillow dist file
and aenum from the site-packages folder and an aenum file into the
graphiti folder.
I also have one Graphiti.py in the graphiti folder that is the code
that controls the graphiti. Finally I have the script for NVDA
__init__.py

All of that is in the graphiti folder. I copied it using the windows GUI
copy so it should have copied the entire folder. I do wish that NVDA
had a pip of its own or some system that add-ons or plugins could add
libraries without copying.

This all worked in the older nvda. Again I test by commenting out the
librarys and the plugin is definitely being activated because I can
see my messages. I am more than willing to zip this up if experts out
there think they can see the problem.

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Alberto Buffolino
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:54 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

Ken Perry, il 16/01/2022 19.34, ha scritto:

Scratchpad is not for simple modules it is for developing modules of
any

kind as far as I know.
Alberto:
I'm not sure, I remember errors on absence of GlobalPlugin class, like
if NVDA would want to find only NVDA modules, and to redistribute you
should change folder structure and code accordingly, so... but ok,
this is a my personal opinion.

" About PIL/Pillow, what procedure you have follow to collect its files?"
I don't understand what your asking here.

Alberto:
I'm asking what actions you have done to populate PIL folder, or where
you copied it from.
Have you installed it via pip and then copied some files? Or have you
downloaded Pillow-9.0.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl from Pypi and then
extracted the PIL folder?
I suspect the latter is a good procedure, but I not tested yet.
Alberto

Here is a link to the broken Graphiti plugin. I think you will see I have what you say in the code. It does not work.


The link to the graphiti plugin

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckj23wr2xsop7ov/graphiti.zip?dl=0

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io> On Behalf Of Lukasz Golonka via
groups.io
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 4:20 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

I've bundled pillow with my OCR add-on for Python 3 based NVDA successfully in the past, so this is certainly possible. My folder layout was as you've described i.e:
- A folder in the golbalPlugins folder of my add-on
- Inside it a __init__.py and an PIL folder.

In __init__.py I had the following code:

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Pillow requires pathlib which is not bundled with NVDA # Therefore
place it in the plugin directory and add it temporarily to PYTHONPATH
sys.path.append(PLUGIN_DIR)
from .PIL import ImageGrab
from .PIL import Image
del sys.path[-1]

If you want feel free to send a zip file of the plugin and I can take a look.


--
HTH
Lukasz

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:02:21 -0500
"Ken Perry" <kperry@blinksoft.com> wrote:

Ah Ok to be clear about the whole process.

I have created a Graphiti folder which will be a global plugin.
This plugin worked in the past. It is currently under scratchpad global plugins.

I used pip in my windows python3.7.2 since that is what I saw NVDA
was using to pip install pillow and aenum. My test program to do
what I want the plugin to do works fine outside of NVDA.

I Then copied pil, a pil folder from site-packages, pillow dist file
and aenum from the site-packages folder and an aenum file into the
graphiti folder.
I also have one Graphiti.py in the graphiti folder that is the code
that controls the graphiti. Finally I have the script for NVDA
__init__.py

All of that is in the graphiti folder. I copied it using the windows GUI
copy so it should have copied the entire folder. I do wish that
NVDA had a pip of its own or some system that add-ons or plugins
could add libraries without copying.

This all worked in the older nvda. Again I test by commenting out
the librarys and the plugin is definitely being activated because I
can see my messages. I am more than willing to zip this up if
experts out there think they can see the problem.

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Alberto Buffolino
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:54 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

Ken Perry, il 16/01/2022 19.34, ha scritto:

Scratchpad is not for simple modules it is for developing modules
of any

kind as far as I know.
Alberto:
I'm not sure, I remember errors on absence of GlobalPlugin class,
like if NVDA would want to find only NVDA modules, and to
redistribute you should change folder structure and code
accordingly, so... but ok, this is a my personal opinion.

" About PIL/Pillow, what procedure you have follow to collect its files?"
I don't understand what your asking here.

Alberto:
I'm asking what actions you have done to populate PIL folder, or
where you copied it from.
Have you installed it via pip and then copied some files? Or have
you downloaded Pillow-9.0.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl from Pypi and then
extracted the PIL folder?
I suspect the latter is a good procedure, but I not tested yet.
Alberto

Here is a link to the broken Graphiti plugin. I think you will see I have what you say in the code. It does not work.


The link to the graphiti plugin

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckj23wr2xsop7ov/graphiti.zip?dl=0

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io> On Behalf Of Lukasz Golonka via
groups.io
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 4:20 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

I've bundled pillow with my OCR add-on for Python 3 based NVDA successfully in the past, so this is certainly possible. My folder layout was as you've described i.e:
- A folder in the golbalPlugins folder of my add-on
- Inside it a __init__.py and an PIL folder.

In __init__.py I had the following code:

PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

# Pillow requires pathlib which is not bundled with NVDA # Therefore
place it in the plugin directory and add it temporarily to PYTHONPATH
sys.path.append(PLUGIN_DIR)
from .PIL import ImageGrab
from .PIL import Image
del sys.path[-1]

If you want feel free to send a zip file of the plugin and I can take a look.


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HTH
Lukasz

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:02:21 -0500
"Ken Perry" <kperry@blinksoft.com> wrote:

Ah Ok to be clear about the whole process.

I have created a Graphiti folder which will be a global plugin.
This plugin worked in the past. It is currently under scratchpad global plugins.

I used pip in my windows python3.7.2 since that is what I saw NVDA
was using to pip install pillow and aenum. My test program to do
what I want the plugin to do works fine outside of NVDA.

I Then copied pil, a pil folder from site-packages, pillow dist file
and aenum from the site-packages folder and an aenum file into the
graphiti folder.
I also have one Graphiti.py in the graphiti folder that is the code
that controls the graphiti. Finally I have the script for NVDA
__init__.py

All of that is in the graphiti folder. I copied it using the windows GUI
copy so it should have copied the entire folder. I do wish that
NVDA had a pip of its own or some system that add-ons or plugins
could add libraries without copying.

This all worked in the older nvda. Again I test by commenting out
the librarys and the plugin is definitely being activated because I
can see my messages. I am more than willing to zip this up if
experts out there think they can see the problem.

Ken



-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
<nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Alberto Buffolino
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:54 PM
To: nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] A global plugin problem

Ken Perry, il 16/01/2022 19.34, ha scritto:

Scratchpad is not for simple modules it is for developing modules
of any

kind as far as I know.
Alberto:
I'm not sure, I remember errors on absence of GlobalPlugin class,
like if NVDA would want to find only NVDA modules, and to
redistribute you should change folder structure and code
accordingly, so... but ok, this is a my personal opinion.

" About PIL/Pillow, what procedure you have follow to collect its files?"
I don't understand what your asking here.

Alberto:
I'm asking what actions you have done to populate PIL folder, or
where you copied it from.
Have you installed it via pip and then copied some files? Or have
you downloaded Pillow-9.0.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl from Pypi and then
extracted the PIL folder?
I suspect the latter is a good procedure, but I not tested yet.
Alberto