Hi, Thomas, On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 12:40 PM Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: > > On 4/1/2023 1:28 PM, Thomas Passin wrote: > > On 4/1/2023 1:21 PM, Jim Schwartz wrote: > >> Are there any ide’s that will let me design the screen and convert it > >> to python? I doubt it because it was mentioned that this is time > >> consuming. > > > > Depends on what you mean by "let me design the screen", but Pyside > > (which I think is now called Pyside2) may be suitable. It is part the > > Qt framework. > > I should have added that in my experience, the screen layout of controls > is not the hardest and most time-consuming part of developing GUIs. The > hard part is getting the screen elements and other components to do what > you want in the way that you want it. > > For example, the Tk.Text class can be used as a fairly full-featured > editor, but try figuring out how to highlight part of the text - not so > obvious. Or say you decide you want to have a button flash when > clicked, but you don't like the standard flash effect and want to change > it. Those are a few of the kinds of things that you have to deal with > and that soak up the time. It's not usually screen design.
I suggest going with wxPython/wxGlade. Thank you. > > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Apr 1, 2023, at 10:37 AM, Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 4/1/23, Jim Schwartz <jsch...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >>>> I have another question. I have an app written in python, but I > >>>> want to > >>>> add a windows GUI front end to it. Can this be done in python? What > >>>> packages would allow me to do that? > >>> > >>> Here are a few of the GUI toolkit libraries in common use: > >>> > >>> * tkinter (Tk) > >>> * PyQt (Qt) > >>> * PySide (Qt) > >>> * wxPython (wxWidgets) > >>> * PyGObject (GTK) > >>> > >>> tkinter is included in Python's standard library. > >> > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
