Setting up an environment in Visual Studio

• First Clone PyXRD source code:

  • In visual studio go to "View > Team Explorer" in the menu
  • In the Team Explorer view, you'll have a section called 'local git repositories'
  • Click on 'Clone' and paste the Github repository url for pyxrd (https://github.com/PyXRD/PyXRD.git)
  • Choose where you want to put the source code
  • Press 'Clone'

• Then create a new visual studio project:

  • Go to "File > New > New Project"
  • Select Python > From Existing Python Code
  • Give it a proper name, and select the location where you cloned the PyXRD sources - make sure it is the root folder containing the pyxrd and mvc folders
  • In the Wizard just click Finish

• Then add a new Python environment pointing to the python that came with the PyXRD bundle installer (solves some issues as GTK is not readily available on windows)

  • Open the Solution Explorer ("View > Solution Explorer" in case it's closed)

  • Right click Python Environments and select "View All Python Environments"

  • Scroll down in the top list of environments untill you find the " + Custom..." button and click it

  • Enter the following:

    Description = PyXRDPython Prefix path = C:\Program Files (x86)\PyXRD\lib\python3.6 Interpreter path = C:\Program Files (x86)\PyXRD\bin\python3.exe Windowed interpreter = C:\Program Files (x86)\PyXRD\bin\python3w.exe Language version = 3.6 Architecture = 32-bit Path env. variable = PYTHONPATH

  • Then click Apply

• Go back to the solution explorer

  • Right click Python Evironments again and select Add/Remove Python Environments
  • In the dialog select only the PyXRDPython environment we just created

• Finally set the startup file:

  • In the solution explorer navigate to pyxrd > main.py
  • Right click and select "Set as startup file"

You're all ready to run the code.