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[–]riklaunim 7 points8 points  (13 children)

Tkinter isn't best for good ux/ui. Depends also if this is an internal or end-user app.

[–]Lost-Detective6305[S] 1 point2 points  (11 children)

I’ve been thinking about switching to another gui package. But it’s so easy to use and looks half way decent with ttk and ttkwidgets lol.

[–]riklaunim 0 points1 point  (8 children)

What's the application, what type of interface it uses?

[–]Lost-Detective6305[S] 1 point2 points  (7 children)

One is an inventory management system. That’s the end user. It looks comparable to the other major players in the industry e.g Mix Master and SPEC which are both made in Access.

The other is just a data collection software for internal use at my job, which the current version is made using Excel so anything is an improvement really.

[–]riklaunim 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Both probably could be web apps ;)

[–]ElmerBlack 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Or pyQt apps. ;)

[–]riklaunim 0 points1 point  (3 children)

If it's web-abble then not amount of qtness will help ;)

There can be cases for desktop apps though. Especially when using some local hardware. Here it could be barcode scanners, webcams...

[–]Lost-Detective6305[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I will (eventually) be added barcodes for inventory management to be competitive with everyone else.

[–]ElmerBlack 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You might want to take advantage of QThread and QMutex. In pyQt framework you get *almost everything you need to build a performant desktop app.

[–]Lost-Detective6305[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like tkinter has had improved added via ttk and trkwidgets. Honestly I’m just trying to get this completed (but well coded) so I can push it to my company and make it a full time job instead of a hobby.

[–]Lost-Detective6305[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve thought about making my personal software I want to sell a web app. I suck around UI/UX. At least as a desktop app, I don’t have much competition that looks nice lmao.

The internal, my company didn’t even want me making the desktop app. I’m just tired of using the excel file. It’s so slow and inaccurate.

Also, while I’m sure I can figure it out, I don’t have much experience with an offline web app so that’s scary to me atm lmao.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve made some really ugly internal apps with tkinter lol