This app can't run on your PC

[GitHubKitten]

When trying to run handwrite, after having installed all the required other things, I get the message:

"This app can't run on your PC"

i.e. as a Blue Windows 10 information window.

Since there is no .exe file, I can't set to run in configuration mode.

Please help.

[yashlamba]

@GitHubKitten, handwrite is just a CLI tool and isn't packaged as an application. You can't run it as any other application on windows.

[GitHubKitten]

Thanks. I am trying to run it from cmd prompt now. But it's not working, I can an error. Here is the cmd prompt messages (please note I am not a developer). Can you see what the error is and how to fix it? To clarify, this is the command I used: "handwrite C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.jpg C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts"

See the full cmd dialogue below:

c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts>handwrite C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.jpg C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\handwrite.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 56, in main
converters(
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 34, in converters
run(sheet, output_directory, directory, config, metadata)
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\cli.py", line 14, in run
SVGtoTTF().convert(characters_dir, output_directory, config, metadata)
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\handwrite\svgtottf.py", line 28, in convert
subprocess.run(
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 548, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1026, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1538, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

c:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts>

[yashlamba]

Looks like you don't have fontforge installed correctly, make sure you enable scripting when installing. If I remember correctly, it comes up as an option when installing.