Qualitative analysis software for video and audio data  
Developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Education Research  

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To move around within this setup procedure, use these links:

  OS X
  Python
  wxPython
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Setting up your Computer - Mac OS X 10.4

Python

Transana is written in Python. Information and downloads are available at http:\\www.python.org . We are currently using version 2.5.2. THis is NOT the version of Python that comes with OS X 10.4, so an upgrade is necessary.

If you are not familiar with Python, you might want to take a look at the Python Tutorial . (Note that the Tutorial is for the latest version of Python, not for version 2.5.2, but the differences are relatively small.) There are also a number of good books available for learning Python. You don't need to spend any time learning Tkinter or Tcl/Tk GUI programming for Python, as Transana does not use that approach to building its graphical user interface.

The next step is to set up wxPython.