gui:

 - fixing about menu
 - fixing splash screen

dev/how_to_build_gui.txt

@@ -1,17 +1,40 @@
+Packages
+--------
+>>> pip install pyqt5 vtk imageio py-splash
+
+Last Built on:
+ - Python 3.11.9, 2024/11/23 (get the dev version)
+
 Windows
 -------
-1.  Use 32-bit or 64-bit Python 3.7
+1.  Use 64-bit Python 3.10+
 2.  Verify the gui works by typing:
     >>> pyNastranGUI
-3.  Download pyInstaller -> http://www.pyinstaller.org/
-    - pyInstaller 3.1 (https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/releases/download/v3.1/PyInstaller-3.1.zip)
+3.  Download pyInstaller -> https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
+    - Get the dev version from github
 4.  Extract pyInstaller
 5.  Go into the pyInstaller directory and run setup.py
-6.  In pyInstaller/building/toc_conversion.py; line 135, change:
-       OLD : os.makedirs(workpath)
-       NEW : if not os.path.exists(workpath):
-                 os.makedirs(workpath)
-7.  Go into pyNastran/dev and run:
+6.  DEPRECATED: In pyInstaller/building/toc_conversion.py; line 135, change:
+       OLD: os.makedirs(workpath)
+       NEW: if not os.path.exists(workpath):
+                os.makedirs(workpath)
+7.  In pyInstaller/archive/writers.py; line 138, skip the __pycache__ directory:
+       OLD:
+            # Write entries' data and collect TOC entries
+            toc = []
+            for entry in entries:
+                toc_entry = self._write_entry(fp, entry)
+                toc.append(toc_entry)
+       NEW:
+            # Write entries' data and collect TOC entries
+            toc = []
+            for entry in entries:
+                dest_name, src_name, compress, typecode = entry
+                if '__pycache__' in dest_name:
+                    continue
+                toc_entry = self._write_entry(fp, entry)
+                toc.append(toc_entry)
+8.  Go into pyNastran/dev and run:
     >>> pyinstaller pyNastranGUI.spec
 
 

dev/pyNastranGUI.spec

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ IS_RELEASE = True
 USE_TODAY = True
 IS_ONEDIR = False # True=onedir; False=onefile
 
-MAKE_SPLASH = False # requires tk
+MAKE_SPLASH = True # requires tk
 BUILD_EXE = True
 BUILD_COLLECT = False
 

pyNastran/gui/main_window.py

@@ -171,8 +171,17 @@ def __init__(self, inputs, **kwds):
         self.setup_controls()
         self.setup_post(inputs)
 
-        if is_pynastrangui_exe and '_PYIBoot_SPLASH' in os.environ and importlib.util.find_spec("pyi_splash"):
-            import pyi_splash
+        if 0:  # pragma: no cover
+            print(f'is_pynastrangui_exe = {is_pynastrangui_exe}')
+            if is_pynastrangui_exe:
+                print(f'os.environ = {os.environ}')
+                print('_PYIBoot_SPLASH', '_PYIBoot_SPLASH' in os.environ)
+                if '_PYIBoot_SPLASH' in os.environ:
+                    is_pysplash = importlib.util.find_spec("pyi_splash")
+                    print(f'is_pysplash', is_pysplash)
+
+        if is_pynastrangui_exe: # and '_PYIBoot_SPLASH' in os.environ and importlib.util.find_spec("pyi_splash"):
+            import pyi_splash   # pip install py-splash
             # Update the text on the splash screen
             pyi_splash.update_text("PyInstaller is a great software!")
             #pyi_splash.update_text("Second time's a charm!")

pyNastran/gui/menus/about/about.py

@@ -229,12 +229,21 @@ def get_packages() -> dict[str, str]:
     if 'pyside' in qt_name.lower():
         del packages['QScintilla2']
 
-    for name in ['setuptools', 'matplotlib', 'pandas', 'h5py', 'tables', 'imageio', 'PIL', 'pygments']:
+    pkgs = [
+        'setuptools', 'matplotlib', 'pandas', 'h5py', 'tables',
+        'imageio', 'PIL', 'pygments']
+    for name in pkgs:
         try:
             module = importlib.import_module(name, package=None)
         except ImportError:
             continue
-        packages[name] = module.__version__
+
+        try:
+            pkg_version = module.__version__
+        except AttributeError:
+            continue
+        packages[name] = pkg_version
+
     return packages
 
 def get_version() -> dict[str, str]: