Running from Source Code on Windows

It's not as complicated as you might think. There's just a lot of dependancies to some very fine work done by other people.

1. Create a directory for your code. Example: C:\vpt or "C:\Program Files\Virtual Page Turner" (how)
2. Download the source code file from the web store, http://www.virtualpianist.com/zencart
3. Using Winzip, extract the files into your new directory.
4. Download the ImageMagick installer from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows
5. Run the ImageMagick installer.
6. Download the ghostscript installer from http://ghostscript.com/releases (Select ghostscript-8.63.tar.gz)
7. Run the ghostscript installer
8. Download the Accidentals Font from http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/free-fonts-available-for-download
9. Install the Font (how)
10. Download Python version 2.5.2 from http://www.python.org/download (Not everything is comatible with 2.6 yet)
11. Install Python
12. Download wxPython toolkit from http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries (Select Unicode version 2.5)
13. Install wxPython
14. Create the environment variable VPT_HOME and set it to your directory you created in step 1 (how)
15. You can now double click on the vpt.bat file or run from a command shell python vpt.py

Running the binary executable on windows

1. Create a directory for your code. Example: C:\vpt or "C:\Program Files\Virtual Page Turner" (how)
2. Download the binary code from the web store, http://www.virtualpianist.com/zencart
3. Extract the files into your new directory
4. Download the ImageMagick installer from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows
5. Run the ImageMagick installer.
6. Download the ghostscript installer from http://ghostscript.com/releases (Select ghostscript-8.63.tar.gz)
7. Run the ghostscript installer
8. Download the Accidentals Font from http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/free-fonts-available-for-download
9. Install the Font (how)
10. Create the environment variable VPT_HOME and set it to your directory you created in step 1 (how)
11. You can now double click on the vpt.exe file or run from a command shell vpt.exe

Running from the Disk on Windows

1. Put disk in optical drive
2. run setup.exe
3. Virtual Page Turner should appear in your Programs menu

Creating a directory in Windows

1. Open up "My Computer"
2. Double click on the disk you want to use
3. Create a new folder and give it a name like vpt or whatever you want.

Installing a font in Windows

(from http://www.myfonts.com/support/help_install_win.html)

1. Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel
   
   Note: In Windows XP, choose Start > Control Panel
    
   
2. Double-click the Fonts folder.
    
   
3. Choose File > Install New Font.
    
   
4. Locate the fonts you want to install.
   
   
   • In the Drives list, select the drive and the folder containing the fonts you want to install.
      
     
   • In the Folders list, select a folder that contains the fonts you want to install. (Make sure you have unzipped them first.) The fonts in the folder appear under List of Fonts.
      
     
5. Select the fonts to install. To select more than one font, hold down the CTRL key and click each font.
    
   
6. To copy the fonts to the Fonts folder, make sure the Copy fonts to the Fonts folder check box is selected.
   
   Note: If installing fonts from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM, you should make sure this check box is selected. Otherwise, to use the fonts in your applications, you must always keep the disk in the disk drive.
    
   
7. Click OK to install the fonts.

Creating an enviornment variable in Windows

(from http://www.cs.usask.ca/~wew036/latex/env.html)

• In Windows 95/98/ME, append these lines to the end of your c:\autoexec.bat using notepad, and then reboot your computer:

    set HOME=d:\home  set DISPLAY=localhost:0  set PATH=.;d:\cygwin\bin;d:\cygwin\usr\bin;d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;d:\gs\gs8.00\bin;d:\gs\gs8.00\lib;%PATH%    

• In Windows NT/2000/XP, follow the following steps:
  1. Open Control Panel
  2. Click the System icon and the window pops up (screenshot)
  3. Go to the Advanced pane (screenshot)
  4. Click the Environment Variables button (screenshot)
  5. There are two seperated windows showing two sets of environment variables. Select the "new" button for the upper window to create a new environment variable (screenshot). Select the "Edit" button for the upper window to edit an existing environment variable. Probably you need to create the "HOME" and "DISPLAY" variable, and edit the "PATH" variable.
  6. The value of "DISPLAY" should be localhost:0
  7. The value of "HOME" should be the directory name where you want to put your .profile file. For example: d:\home.
  8. You should add these values to the beginning of your "PATH" variable: