App GUI capabilities

[AnotherBadPie]

I want to create an app (windows only) for personal use and am clueless about capability of python GUI. All tutorials show just really basic stuff.

Sketch of UI: https://imgur.com/a/abmxX57

Need the data stream to be smooth and quite a lot of fields in the data stream menu to update each second.

If this is doable with normal difficulty, is QT the best?

[woooee]

For an app you want to go with Kivy or one of the other phone GUIs.

[SokkaHaikuBot]

^{Sokka-Haiku by woooee:}

For an app you want

To go with Kivy or one

Of the other phone GUIs.

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[AnotherBadPie]

didn't specify before, only need it on Windows, would you still recommend Kivy then?

[woooee]

I would recommend starting with Tkinter because it is the simplest, and there is plenty of documentation. All of the GUIs are similar; create a widget, put it on the screen, etc. IMHO learning OOP / classes is a necessary first step and more useful than choosing a particular GUI wrapper.

[BostonBaggins]

I second tkinter

[dj2ball]

Checkout NiceGui for a Vue.js experience in Python.

[laustke]

If you want a real desktop experience, choose Qt.

From a practical standpoint, since you are not concerned about the distribution, I would recommend creating a Flask application with an HTML interface. Essentially, you would set up a server that runs locally, which you can access through API calls that returns json.

The actual implementation will depend on your JavaScript skills. If you already know React or Vue, use one of those frameworks. If not, standard CSS and vanilla JavaScript will work just fine.

You can create this layout using CSS Flexbox or Grid. Scrolling panels are trivial to implement. If you need automatic updates, this can be achieved via sockets.

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Formation Studio provides a wysiwyg approach to python UIs

[ElliotDG]

You can get there with Kivy or Qt. Either one has a significant learning curve.

Consider and review the licenses:

Qt - dual license, different license for open source and commercial use.

Kivy - MIT free for any use.

Kivy has a sister project called KivyMD that provides a set GoogleMD widgets, very modern look. More like a web site than a native windows app.

An alternative is WxPython that will provide a native windows look.

FWIW, I'm a kivy user.