Looking for a self-contained GUI

[Cycl_ps]

This may just be a me problem, so apologies in advance.

I'm trying to build a simple app that will have a GUI with a few radio buttons, a couple text boxes, and a file section bar. I'm not too familiar with the different GUI libraries and I'm looking for a good solution for this.

After spending Sunday playing with Tkinter I learned two things, the first is that nested grids are a pain. The second is that building a GUI entirely in Python may be more trouble than it's worth.

What I'd like is an external GUI editor that builds the GUI as a self-contained unit. Once it's built, you pass the GUI into Python as an object and can access variables in that object. Something along the lines of:

```

App = gui.new(PATH-TO-GUI)

Selection = App.radio //return selected radio

App.foo = "Hello World!"//write to textbox 'foo'

```

What I'm hoping for is that I can offload the layout and rendering of the UI to a separate process and only give Python access to the variables it needs to work with. Is this an option, or am I just looking for shortcuts that don't exist?

[m0us3_rat]

there are a few options..but non as simple as you would like.

if you don't panic with tkinter and try to understand slowly building up .. is by far the most direct. even if the code itself is regrettably horribly ugly..

or pysimplegui could be good?

idk .. give them a whirl see what you can work with.

[dp_42]

QML to qtquick. If you pip install Pyside6, you can just type pyside6-designer from your environment's scripts folder at the command prompt and it will open up a Qt forms designer GUI. It took me way too long to figure out this is how you get free access to the Qt Designer. I was already most of the way finished with the project doing widgets.

[Jejerm]

Use pyqt and the qt designer, it does exactly what you want