Windows Gui Frontend

[Thomas Passin]

On 4/1/2023 1:28 PM, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 4/1/2023 1:21 PM, Jim Schwartz wrote:
>> Are there any ide’s that will let me design the screen and convert it 
>> to python?  I doubt it because it was mentioned that this is time 
>> consuming.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by "let me design the screen", but Pyside 
> (which I think is now called Pyside2) may be suitable.  It is part the 
> Qt framework.

I should have added that in my experience, the screen layout of controls 
is not the hardest and most time-consuming part of developing GUIs.  The 
hard part is getting the screen elements and other components to do what 
you want in the way that you want it.

For example, the Tk.Text class can be used as a fairly full-featured 
editor, but try figuring out how to highlight part of the text - not so 
obvious.  Or say you decide you want to have a button flash when 
clicked, but you don't like the standard flash effect and want to change 
it.  Those are a few of the kinds of things that you have to deal with 
and that soak up the time.  It's not usually screen design.

>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Apr 1, 2023, at 10:37 AM, Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/1/23, Jim Schwartz <jschwar at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> I have another question.  I have an app written in python, but I 
>>>> want to
>>>> add a windows GUI front end to it.  Can this be done in python?  What
>>>> packages would allow me to do that?
>>>
>>> Here are a few of the GUI toolkit libraries in common use:
>>>
>>>     * tkinter (Tk)
>>>     * PyQt (Qt)
>>>     * PySide (Qt)
>>>     * wxPython (wxWidgets)
>>>     * PyGObject (GTK)
>>>
>>> tkinter is included in Python's standard library.
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