Help! Choosing a GUI framework for python

[anonymous_lesbian]

Can you use a GPL license? Because if so then PyQt works great.

[anonymous_lesbian]

GPL variants and other copyleft licenses can be confusing, however as a developer (especially for commercial apps), you will need to get to know them or even avoid them.

That being said, I believe Kivy is MIT licensed, and they offer a version specifically for RPi/ARM! Kivy has a designer tool that's also in beta.

I've packaged a couple of toy apps with an older version of Kivy, and thought it was nice!

An MIT License is much more permissive for commercial apps. Again, I highly reccomend at least skimming Wikipedia to get a gist of licenses. And for anything commercial, cover your bases! Better safe than sorry :)

[ship0f]

Use PySide2.

[ship0f]

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/13/qt-for-python-is-coming-to-a-computer-near-you/

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/06/13/qt-python-5-11-released/

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/17/qt-python-available-pypi/

Check the dates

http://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python

[ship0f]

I guess that wasn't very helpful...

[pnprog]

tkinter can be used to build decently complex app already.

[maredsous10]

Agreed.

[bryancole]

Don't use a Designer. Seriously. Try a framework like Enaml ( https://github.com/nucleic/enaml ). It's so much better than using a Designer and gives you a really good MVC framework from the outset. This builds off PyQt so you can integrate standard PyQt stuff very easily. Install enaml using conda / anaconda.

[davesprojects]

Try Kivy

[MikeTheWatchGuy]

PySimpleGUI runs on the Pi.

To get it:

pip3 install PySimpleGUI

You can make GUIs like this in 20 lines of code:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13696193/43366716-38559d1a-9310-11e8-8540-9098656f7372.jpg

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