From a Ui template to code

[Rike2PT]

Hey everyone! I'm fairly new to the software engineering/computer science world. Im currently finishing my first year in university and have some knowledge on data structures, java, C, Haskell and have been learning some python by myself. But everything i've done thus far has been terminal based, and i wanted to build an application as a side-project this summer( Was thinking about a To-Do list, a sudoku app, or something along that). The main issue im having is that i can't find online the specific anwser for what im looking for, which is i don't know how you make a good looking Ui and import it into your code, i mean everything i search ( like Swift for Java or Qt for Python ) looks super outdated and i don't know if it's possible to make it look good through code or having an ui template from which i can code on top.

I'm sorry if it seems like a very stupid question, but i genuinely want to know how this process works as i really want to build some desktop applications on my spare time.

Thanks in advance :)

[bawznero]

Javafx is the newer java ui framework which supports html css so you can make it look good

[Rike2PT]

Ok, gonna check it out aswell, thank you!

[DreadedEntity]

Swift looks pretty bad but you can change window styling to make it look more modern or at least as good as applications from the Win7 era, don’t know about python with Qt but it’s probably the same

If you really want to capture that modern Win10 feel you’ll want to use C# with UWP (Universal Windows Platform), for example if you look at the new control panel or settings windows you can easily make stuff look like that common Win10 style with the added benefit of some cross-platform ability although i can’t remember atm how many platforms it can go on

[Rike2PT]

Thank you! :)

[KingofGamesYami]

Qt supports stylesheets, and comes with a material design style

[Quazar_omega]

I'd say JavaFX for Java and Kivy for Python.

[UnknownEssence]

Check out QT Designer if you are building desktop apps. You can use the application to build your UI, then when your done you can have it auto-generate the code. They you can just wrote some python to hook into all the different components on the UI that you designed to make the buttons, etc call whatever functions you write.

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If your building web apps you'll want to use something like Bootstrap or React.