[Python-ideas] A GUI for beginners and experts alike

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 04:17:20 EDT 2018


https://docs.python-guide.org/scenarios/gui/ lists a bunch of great GUI
projects for Python.

https://github.com/realpython/python-guide/blob/master/docs/scenarios/gui.rst

On Friday, August 24, 2018, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2018, Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> Thank you for your prompt response. You wrote
>>
>> > Maybe we're on different planes?
>> >
>> > I'm talking about 5 lines of Python code to get a custom layout GUI on
>> the screen:
>> >
>> > import PySimpleGUI as sg
>> >
>> > form = sg.FlexForm('Simple data entry form')  # begin with a blank form
>> >
>> > layout = [
>> >           [sg.Text('Please enter your Name, Address, Phone')],
>> >           [sg.Text('Name', size=(15, 1)), sg.InputText('1',
>> key='name')],
>> >           [sg.Text('Address', size=(15, 1)), sg.InputText('2',
>> key='address')],
>> >           [sg.Text('Phone', size=(15, 1)), sg.InputText('3',
>> key='phone')],
>> >           [sg.Submit(), sg.Cancel()]
>> >          ]
>> >
>> > button, values = form.LayoutAndRead(layout)
>>
>> The execution of this code, depends on PySimpleGUI, which in turn depends
>> on tkinter, which is in turn a thin layer on top of Tcl/Tk. And Tcl/Tk
>> provides the GUI layer.
>> (See https://docs.python.org/3/library/tk.html.)
>>
>> I'm suggest that sometimes it may be better to use HTML5 to provide the
>> GUI layer. I pointed to Elm, to show how powerful HTML5 has become.
>>
>
> BeeWare uses Toga (a widget toolkit) and Briefcase (a build tool) to build
> native GUIs and SPA web apps
>
> > Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows,
> MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS using rich, native user interfaces. One
> codebase. Multiple apps.
>
> Briefcase can build Django apps.
>
> https://pybee.org
> https://pybee.org/project/using/
> https://briefcase.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/tutorial-0.html
> https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/tutorial-0.html
>
> It's definitely not a single file module, though.
>
> Bottle is a single file web framework ('microframework'); but it doesn't
> have a widget toolkit.
>
> Web development is not as easy to learn as a simple GUI api for beginners
> (and then learning what to avoid in terms of websec is a lot to learn).
>
> There was a thread about deprecating Tk awhile back. There also I think I
> mentioned that asyncio event loop support would be great for real world
> apps.
>
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