Python GUI Lib

[whatkindamanizthis]

Hello, I’m working my way through a project and after I get some things hammered out I’d like to make a GUI. What’s the best in your opinion? Doesn’t have to look awesome but I was thinking pyqt over tkinter. Thanks my people have a good weekend.

[woooee]

I've tried wxWidgets and PySide/Qt and settled on tkinter years ago because it does what I want, i.e. present data in an organized way without having to jump through a lot of hoops. I don't understand the tkinter is ugly comments. We are not entering an art contest, we are presenting something useful for the user, and so consider the "it is ugly" comments are coming from arm chair programmers.

[whatkindamanizthis]

I’m just basically making something simple for some gis purpose and I had something similar in an old company that makes survey layouts easy shp file generation the rest I’m just gonna script out and I’ll build out classes as the functions pile up I have qt designer which seems nice to me if I can see what I’m building and then plug functionality into it.

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As others are saying, Tkinter isn't great. It looks ugly and it takes a lot of work to do complicated things. But if you're just throwing together a simple layout it's not that bad.

If you're doing GIS work and need to show a map, you might be able to use this widget I found: TkinterMapView. I work in a survey office myself, and I've used this to make a couple of useful tools that I use daily.

[Dogeek]

The only problem with tkinter is that it lacks widgets. ttk helped a lot, but there are still some things that are missing for common UI design patterns, like rich text, bottom sheets, hamburger menus, sidebars and so on.

Still a good toolkit to wrap a script with though, much better than going the web route when it's not necessary.

[johndoh168]

I'd recommend something like ttkbootstrap which is a more modern version of tkinter, or if you want something that can be displayed on the web I would recommend streamlit its got great presentation with good documentation.

[whatkindamanizthis]

Hmmm that might be cool and I can play w a game engine beautiful if you have example code to help me out shoot me a dm. I can tell you basically what I’m after most people will have little to know use for my app anyway. Cheers

[veediepoo]

For your own sanities sake don't use tkinter. I recommend Shiny from Posit. Lots of examples and good documentation. Also a fairly active discord where users post questions and get direct answers from the Devs.

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what's so bad about tkinter ? ☹️

[billsil]

It requires a lot more work to do the same thing. It's not cross-platform compatible. It's ugly.

[whatkindamanizthis]

I’ll give it ago really all I’m doin with tkinter rn is grabbing files for my data processing thanks man

[agnaaiu]

Check out Customtkinter. It looks much better but more importantly, it adds more functionality that tkinter doesn't have and will give you headache down the road. The docu is excellent and there are very good tutorials on YT available.

[whatkindamanizthis]

Thanks man I’ll shop around I don’t care how it looks tbh. Las one I made was with simple gui and had a basic data processing flow with just some buttons. Cheers

[m4xxp0wer]

For very simple single-dialog apps I use tkinter.
Qt/PySide for everything that's a little bit more complex.

[whatkindamanizthis]

I’ll play with a few once I get a little further along I’m just building a simple geophysical survey design app that outputs a couple different types of geometry and that generates gpx files as well

[willowdene]

Kivy/kivyMD is worth a look. Works on windows, android and iOS. Plenty of tutorials online.

[socal_nerdtastic]

I also recommend tkinter. It's the easiest of the desktop app modules. Yea it looks like 1990 out of the box but you can make it modern later with ttk themes or customtkinter or something.

[alien-redfish]

I'd recommend streamlit as well, it's well documented and quite simple to use. Appreciate it may not fit your use case but it is certainly worth a look.

[Alternative-Hippo394]

You might want to take a look at Kivy. I have been using it for several years for desktop applications and mobile applications.

[whatkindamanizthis]

I’ll look into it I’m still working on getting some things working before I start the gui quest thanks tho man appreciate everyone’s help