Windows Gui Frontend

[Igor Korot]

Hi, Thomas,

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 12:40 PM Thomas Passin <list1 at tompassin.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

I suggest going with wxPython/wxGlade.

Thank you.

>
> >>
> >> 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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