Kivy App Loads With Other Colors Than Defaults Every Launch (bug)

June 27, 2022 Post a Comment

(Python 3.7.3 / Kivy 1.10.1 / Win10 patch 1809) Hi, thanks for taking some time to read me. I'm having an issue with Kivy loading my app's text with different colors than the defau

Solution 1:

OS - Windows 10

Uninstall Kivy & Dependencies

python -m pip uninstall kivy
python -m pip uninstall kivy.deps.sdl2
python -m pip uninstall kivy.deps.glew
python -m pip uninstall kivy.deps.gstreamer

Installation

python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
python -m pip install kivy.deps.sdl2==0.1.18
python -m pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy.deps.glew
python -m pip install kivy.deps.gstreamer
python -m pip install kivy.deps.angle
python -m pip install kivy

Verify SDL2 - 0.1.18

Check that kivy.deps.sdl2 is version 0.1.18 i.e. folder name, kivy.deps.sdl2-0.1.18.dist-info, in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Lib\site-packages. Replace username with your user-name.

Solution 2:

Got my answer thanks to inclement, installing this wheel below helped me to get rid of this bug. Thanks a lot !

Wheel for Python 3.7 64 bit : https://kivy.org/downloads/appveyor/kivy/Kivy-1.11.0.dev0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

Other wheels : https://kivy.org/downloads/appveyor/kivy/

EDIT : Well, it worked for a moment, then the problem reappeared even with my original mytest.py, and I haven't done anything to Kivy's site-packages files after upgrading to Kivy 1.11.0.dev0. Is Kivy really suitable for developing stable apps or is it always that messy ? I really want it to work, Kivy looks interesting, but it doesn't look stable at all. I don't even know where to post now so I guess I'll edit this post until I get answers so I'll post answers afterwards.

EDIT 2 : Just a screenshot :

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