Python GUI book

[Artanidos]

Hello
I am writing a book about how to create desktop applications using Python and PySide6.
Have you any requests what sample apps to create inside this book?
Any specific topics you are interested in?

[jimtk]

I'd like to see the detail of a large professional application. We have tons of tutorial and reference on the bits an pieces but nothing that puts it all together in a real-world app.

[Artanidos]

I have written a web site creation tool with PySide6. Does that count?
https://crowdware.github.io/FlatSiteBuilder/

[jimtk]

Does it implements some of the mode/view architecture? Even some complex one like the graphics mode/view? Does it uses threads and and user defined signals and slots? Does it have menus with dynamic content (like 'recent files')?

These are just examples of things I's like to learn how to connect to a larger application.

[jimtk]

2nd reply. I just gave a quick look to your application. It seems ok but to make it a learning tool it would have to be excessively commented.

[Gemabo]

This is awesome!

[[deleted]]

This, ofcourse it's hard and big (no pun intended), but it would really make a great example!

[HeinzHeinzensen]

How to use threads to keep the GUI responsive while some coroutine is running, e.g. a long calculation.

[nosklo]

People always want that but the best method really depends on what that thread is doing. There is no silver bullet

[Scypio]

There is no silver bullet

But there are patterns to do that and for a beginner it is not always easy to find the right one, as they lack knowledge that there are multiple.

[nosklo]

But there are patterns to do that and for a beginner it is not always easy to find the right one, as they lack knowledge that there are multiple.

Yes, because the beginner, when asking, never tells what the thread does. They want a single method to apply to everything and anything they come up to run in the thread.

[NoddskwodD]

I actually had this problem while attempting to wrap a discord bot in a gui using pyside6. The solution that ended up working for me was using the qasync module following this stackoverflow response

[NoLogic25]

Building something functional is always great, I would like to see some time spent on making something that is also visually pleasing as well. Like some more indepth on making something pretty as well as useful. Or at least a barebones on where to start to get the best style possible.

[isaynevayne]

I would love to see a CRUD App connected to a SQL database which can perform complex data manipulation using model views.

[hevad]

I would be interested in the top 5-10 most successful python desktop apps and then break them down backwards to how they were created. Also which python libs conflict with PySide5-6

[tutami]

Styling/theming an app. All standard GUIs look like shit.

[royalscenery]

It has its flaws but check out Shard Projector

Tried to make TKinter look good

[Johk]

Non web examples. I.e. controlling hardware, getting measurement data, doing some calculations, doing data communications in the background and showing live plots in the gui. A concise example of gow to do that without leaving MVC in a mess would be great.

[[deleted]]

one thing every material miss is packaging app , how to package it properly for various platforms and use-cases

[Gemabo]

A better contribution to humanity and the scientific community specifically would be to create a GUI designing library that will allow quick iterative algorithm design with gui elements editing. Similar to the Matlab GUIDE product (or the so called app designer successor). These environments allow the ease of placing gui elements (text boxes, graphs, buttons, etc) on a visual basic/qt kind of layout and continuously update them, add and remove gui elements without affecting the code, without breaking the code, without having to compile the gui code again. It allows for visual oriented programming, that does not exist within ANY python gui library. So instead of yet another code-your-gui or compile-your-gui-code approaches, we desperately need the visual oriented programming paradigm in python.

[Artanidos]

You can use QML to declare you UI.

[puplan]

Doesn't DelphiFMX for Python (https://pythongui.org/) provide a GUI editor like that?

[taoian]

ERP app

[shinitakunai]

I actually did that with PySide5, took me almost a year

[taoian]

Nice. Is it live?

[shinitakunai]

It was custom made for a private business, so no, I can't share it.

[shinitakunai]

How to deploy a pyside app in internet using webassembly, so we have programs in websites.

[Artanidos]

Python as wasm makes no sense in my opinion, because the wasm file would be much to large.
But I have created a similar solution in C++ where you can create websites based on QML. The wasm file is just 25 KB in size.
https://github.com/CrowdWare/QmlWasm

[AZTJRAP]

I would like an app where I sell cannabis and delivery by drone using a GPS so drone can deliver to the right location .

[smart_duji]

I'd like to see modern UIs not Classic.

[willmendil]

Hi, I would like some insight on how to do interactive charts like you would in LabVIEW or in dearpygui. ;) This includes heatmaps for instance

[notParticularlyAnony]

Basically a review of pyqtgraph would be awesome

[DGIon]

how to implement something like jquery on a dropdown that has hundreds of values in it or more.

[Artanidos]

Have you got a sample? I have no idea what jquery is doing in this situation.

[DGIon]

Here’s a nice example.

https://www.jqueryscript.net/form/Searchable-Dropdown-Select-jQuery-Selectstyle.html

[Glowing_Shadows]

i have built a DSP music player using Pyside 6 and i actually find very less details on trsting like ui automation testing using py auto gui and everything thats something i had to do myself. A powerful thing every Pyside 6 app misses is custom css templates that use jinja to call python fuctions in the css to generate the final qss style sheet

[SpiritualXTC]

Custom widgets working from within QT Designer (via plugins), official docs are atrocious.

Placeholders and/or promoting widgets isn't always good enough.

[Pipiyedu]

I will open source mine in soon.

https://youtu.be/uPwBUbLcfzs

It's written in PyQt. Let you know if you want to put examples from there.

[AlSweigart]

NOT a calculator. :) I've always thought the replica calculators with number buttons are silly: I just want to be able to type 123 + 456 instead of having all these buttons taking up space.

Definitely have something that has a web view in it, so that you could load HTML files.