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

[Andre Roberge]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:42 PM Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

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> On 23 Aug 2018, at 19:49, Mike Barnett <mike_barnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Python has dropped the GUI ball, at least for beginners (in my opinion)
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> I think that this is a very interesting project. Having a simple way to do
> GUI's is great for beginners and experienced people.
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> What I'd suggest is that this would be better if you could extent beyond
> the simple using the underlying toolkit.
> But I'd not use tk as the base I'd use PyQt, IMHO, its the best toolkit
> for building GUIs with python.
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While I agree that PyQt is better than tkinter, and I even wrote a simple
interface for it (https://github.com/aroberge/easygui_qt), I think that any
"single install, easy to use" GUI toolkit should be based on what's in the
standard library and, for better or for worse, that is tkinter. So I think
that the right choice was made for PySimpleGUI.

André

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> I'd love to start with the simple and build on top the complex stuff only
> when I need it.
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> Barry
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