How to configure Python Kivy for PyCharm on Windows?

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Install and open PyCharm

  1. If you already had it installed and have a project open, click File -> Settings (Ctrl + Alt + S). (If not, create a new project, and click the ‘...‘ (or settings image ) next to interpreter, and skip step 2)
  2. Under Project Settings, click Project Interpreter -> Python Interpreters
  3. Click the little green + and select local (You can also set up an interpreter to your installed python from this list)
  4. Point it to ..\Kivy\Python\python.exe and click ok (my path was c:\Program files (x86)\Kivy\Python\python.exe since that is where I unzipped the kivy zip file to)

I have also attached a settings.jar file. This is the kv language definition. It is not complete, but it helps a lot.
Click File->Import and select the settings.jar file.
Only FileTypes will be ticked. Import this and you will have “kv language file” definition under File->Settings-IDE Settings->File Types

Open a kv file to see the differentiation in colours, as well as autocomplete

  • Widgets are type 1
  • Properties are type 2
  • all events (on_something) are type 3
  • type 4 is just self and root.

That is all for PyCharm, the rest is Windows 7 specific

  1. open a command prompt and browse to your ..\Kivy\Python\lib folder
  2. type mklink /D kivy "..\Kivy\kivy\kivy" (my line was mklink /D kivy "c:\Program files (x86)\Kivy\kivy\kivy")
    This will set up a symlink so that your all your kivy python files are read and their definitions are included, in order to get autocomplete

Now we need to set up the environment variables. You could do this per project inside PyCharm, but might as well do it in windows, so you only need to select the python interpreter each time.

Click start and type envir Select the second one. (System variables) (You could also get here with Win+PauseBreak-> Click Advanced system settings)
Click Environment variables

Now add these (once again, just point to wherever you have your kivy folder. You can also find all these in the kivy.bat file, just find and replace the variables with your path)

GST_PLUGIN_PATH 
c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\gstreamer\lib\gstreamer-0.10

GST_REGISTRY 
c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\gstreamer\registry.bin

PATH 
c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy;c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\Python;c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\gstreamer\bin;c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\MinGW\bin;c:\Program Files (x86)\Kivy\kivy;%PATH

Restart your machine. (For the environment variables to load)

Now when you open your kivy project, just select the Kivy interpreter you set up earlier, and bobs your uncle.

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