MS Windows

Install Python for MS Windows

Install a supported version of Python. Usually the last four stable versions are supported. Download the Windows 10 64-bit installer from python.org

  1. After downloading, right click the file and select Run as administrator.
  2. Check the Add Python 3.x to PATH box at the bottom
  3. Click Custom Installation
  4. Click Next
  5. Check Install for all users box at the top
  6. Click Install

Install pyFltk for MS Windows

  1. Open a command prompt using cmd or powershell.
  2. Run the following command:
pip  install  pyfltk

Download FLTK C++ Documentation

FLTK C++ documentation has excellent documentation which is easy to read and understand for python.

Download the full C++ FLTK 1.x.x docs in your prefered format. For the HTML tar.gz file extract in Powershell with the command:

tar -xvzf fltk-1.x.x-docs-html.tar.gz

Access the demo pyFltk programs and python specific documentation

After installing pyFltk then the python specific documentation and test programs will be located in directories,

C:\Program Files\Python3xx\Lib\site-packages\fltk\test
C:\Program Files\Python3xx\Lib\site-packages\fltk\docs