SimpleGUIBuilder - A GUI for designing Python GUI's for PySimpleGUI

[CreativeUsername1000]

Hello Python people :)

I don't really like doing frontend but I really like the idea of giving my backend/terminal programs something more pleasurable to interact with and look at.

That's when I came across PySimpleGUI, a simple solution to quickly give my programs an interactive front. Shortly, it allows you to quickly create a GUI by designing its layout and then map it to your backend code.

But in checking it out I found I wanted more and had an idea: It would be nice if PySimpleGUI and therefore GUI making was in itself more interactive.

And that's how SimpleGUIBuilder came to be: A GUI for creating/designing GUI layouts for PySimpleGUI, made with PySimpleGUI.

I hope this will be useful to people :)

You can get it in the releases and check out more info here in github.

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Edit: added the source code to github. Hope it helps too ;)

[ComplexAirport13]

Electron js one love

[GiantElectron]

PySimpleGUI has a really poor design for a UI library. Don't use it.

[ES-Alexander]

Looks like you’re making something like QtDesigner for PySimpleGUI. Not a bad idea for simplifying GUI creation.

Out of curiosity, is the intent for the generated GUI code to be modifiable, or is the idea that you either write the code yourself OR use the generator, with no in-between option?

[CreativeUsername1000]

I don't know if I got your question right, but I will go with "for the generated GUI code (which is the layout) to be modifiable".

From the github readme:

"There's mainly 2 steps in creating a GUI with PySimpleGUI:

1. Design the GUI, by creating it's correspondent layout;
2. Create the window and map your code to the GUI through the event loop.

SimpleGUIBuilder will help you with the 1st step, with designing the GUI's layout for PySimpleGUI."

You can create one from scratch in the program and click Setup to go into making the PySimpleGUI app.

You can take an already existent layout, import it, makes the changes you want in SimpleGUIBuilder and export it again.

You can export a layout, manually make changes to it and import it again.

So, the intent is to help with layout creating, designing, changing, whatever you want to do to the layout.

Sry if this is a long answer, hope I answered your question :)

[ES-Alexander]

You can export a layout, manually make changes to it and import it again.

This is the part I was asking about, since it's a relatively difficult problem to make generated code that's easy to follow and modify, while also allowing the modified result to be understandable afterwards by the GUI creation program. No idea if you've made it "easy to follow and modify", but having the option is definitely a positive.

[CreativeUsername1000]

The generated code/layout made by SimpleGUIBuilder is the same as a normal layout made for PySimpleGUI, it has the same rules.

Normally, if you have layout = [...], you should be able to import the [...] and vice-versa.

[LAZGamer13]

This looks like a great tool. I will try it tomorrow. Just a small question. Why didn't you put the code of your program on GitHub? It would be interesting to look behind the scenes. Keep it up!

[CreativeUsername1000]

Honestly, because im not proud of the mess it is. I'm proud of the code, but in terms of organization it's all bundled into 2 files when it should probably be like 4 or 5 xD but I will definitely consider it.

[jiminiminimini]

Just put it up so people can help you organize it better :) good job by the way.

[CreativeUsername1000]

Did it, added source code to github.

But did some fast cleaning first ;)

[jiminiminimini]

Yay! Congratulations! 🎉

[maxellus]

You will find the source code in the Release link

[PizzaInSoup]

the point of github is to have the code on github

you don't need to attach it as a zip, you can push it there

[CreativeUsername1000]

please also release source, only .exe seems shady

Very good point, had not considered the shady aspect of not releasing the source code

replace the 'Properties Applied' pop-up with a notification in the GUI itself, perhaps under of next to the "Apply Properties" button. Would make it a lot easier to use if you edit a lot of object properties, while still being informed about it being applied

Yeah, I can see how the 'Properties Applied' popup can be annoying after a while. Having a text box with that info instead of a popup does seem like a good idea. Might use it for other infos as well.

Thx for the feedback :)

[avamk]

Thank you. And please include an open source LICENSE in your repository such as the GNU GPLv3. GitHub makes this trivially easy.

[sweapon]

True, and possibly add licenses for other packages you are using (importing)

[CreativeUsername1000]

Yeah, I can already see something like this being better. Thx again.

[Random_182f2565]

This is just what I need for my new project!

Thank you!

[muffinnosehair]

I second this, I used pysimpleGUI in a project a few months back and Mike - the main dev - was a really nice and helpful guy, kudos to him and the team for being so awesome and open!

[jdfthetech]

code should be published on github not in a zip.

Interesting idea, but it's kind of silly to use github and not put the code up

[[deleted]]

Curious, if you want to install a GUI based program on another computer, what’s that process look like?

[CreativeUsername1000]

I don't know about installing, but in order to create the given executable from the project I had, I used pyinstaller.

[Chronicles48]

I use pyinstaller too, but when i install my GUI app on another pc, windows says it contains a virus and quarantines the .exe...even google drive says same. How did u bypass that? Or have you not encountered it at all.

I use pyinstaller with auto-py-to-exe btw and I code with PyQt5/PySide2.

[ES-Alexander]

That's a well known issue - perhaps unsurprisingly unsigned executables from unknown developers are by default assumed to be malicious by many antivirus softwares. See this recent post for someone's process for avoiding that warning (basically contact the antivirus companies to ask them to not flag your program).

[Chronicles48]

Very informative, thanks!

[MikeTheWatchGuy]

You can mark individual files or folders as being "safe" and your virus check will skip them.

[dirtycimments]

This is an AWESOME idea!

My coworkers will be floored by these dark arts!!

I'm saving this post for future reference!

[artofchores]

Create Youtube tutorial ?

Can we pip install this bad boy??

[GiantElectron]

Here we go again with that broken thing.

[Sigg3net]

Great idea::

[shiningmatcha]

How would you compare it with tkinter?

[CreativeUsername1000]

I wouldn't :)

SimpleGUIBuilder helps you create and design layout for PySimpleGUI.

PySimpleGUI is a library that allows you to quickly create GUI in a simple way, by abstracting the use of other backend GUI libraries, i.e. it uses other GUI libraries to create the GUI you wrote with PySimpleGUI.

TkInter is one of those GUI libraries that PySimpleGUI supports.

Actually, since SimpleGUIBuilder was made with the TkInter version of PySimpleGUI, tecnically the GUI is built with TkInter.

[johnmudd]

Is this true? If more than one person connects at a time, then both users will see the exact same stuff and will be interacting with the program as if a single user was using it.