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Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by aebtebeten »

bmitc wrote: post #28
tjpnz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found it delightful and appreciate the lengths the author went in explaining why this exists and the goals of the project. A breath of fresh air compared to the usual sea of boilerplate and links to proprietary chat apps I don't want to use.

There is a lot of non-information, for sure. For example, > Some programs are not well-suited for PySimpleGUI however. By definition, PySimpleGUI implements a subset of the underlying GUI frameworks' capabilities. It's difficult to define exactly which programs are well suited for PySimpleGUI and which are not. It depends on the details of your program. Duplicating Excel in every detail is an example of something not…

That's the key part of the entire README; I found it very well put.

tl;dr: "you will be disappointed if you want to do something fancy"

(of course, should you want all three of (a) easy, (b) fancy, and (c) someone else has already done much of it for you, I'd bet you would be bound for disappointment anyway)

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by ptx »

baz00 wrote: post #9
lionkor wrote: post #3

I have one comment, and I hope it's not rude: There is too much text. Everywhere where you can put text, the author put a lot of it. Sentence after sentence, rambling on. Coherently so, most of the time, sure, but just one after the other and not a single relevant screenshot for the first thousand words. Something is not right here. Either this is a joung enthusiastic coder, which is probably the case, or there is so…

I just scanned it. It's not an MVP for some product they want to attract investors. It's a tool. Which has documentation written by someone who wrote it. I hope this one is not rude too: are you sure you're just not afraid of having to read stuff rather than being spoon fed bullet points and steps?

I think the problem with the README is that it sounds more like a marketing brochure than documentation. It's full of slogans and weird illustrations comparing it to "Other Python GUIs".

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by kushie »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #106

I like this part: >> Want to share your PySimpleGUI program with friends and family that don't have Python installed on their computer? Try the GUI front-end for PyInstaller that you'll find in the psgcompiler project.

i haven't used this pyinstaller gui, but for my purposes (internal python 3.8) i just set up a batch script for each project to have a single command to make my executable. i've also had to do some wrestling with pyinstaller for specific features, not sure how much the pyinstaller gui helps iron those issues out.

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by [deleted] »

lionkor wrote: post #57
sp0rk wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say your comment is most definitely rude, especially the part where you reduce the reason for the text to two options, neither of which are very flattering. Incidentally, it seems like neither of your given reasons are accurate either. You could have gotten the same idea across by saying something like "This is a visual project so I feel like it should include more screenshots in the main description" and lea…

Thats not my main point, though - my point is that this rambling text doesnt work as a readme, for me, and i feel its much too long and has little content for the amount of text

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Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by RockRobotRock »

scrlk wrote: post #20

I'm surprised that nothing has filled the void that VB6 left behind in the rapid application development space. The language wasn't great, but VB6's strength was the drag and drop GUI builder.

wxformbuilder can get you 80% there

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by seusscat »

magicmicah85 wrote: post #89

We had a work requirement to start logging hours in Jira. I hated having the website open, it was slow to find the Jira I was working on, find the link for logging hours and adding a comment. I wanted a desktop app that had a list of issues assigned to me with buttons to add comments and work log hours. I messed with Tkinter but was struggling for awhile just getting it to look…nice. I stumbled on PySimpleGUI and sud…

Do you have the sources for this application available somewhere? I was considering writing something similar just this week. So an already available application where I just point it to the right instance would be amazing

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by _dmn7 »

As a developer for a Python GUI application [1], I think the biggest problem with using Python for desktop applications is the packaging. All existing tooling for creating a distributable binary either stops working or starts to require nontrivial hacks once you have more than a few dependencies. Even popular packages have issues. You get cryptic missing hidden import problems and missing data files that you didn't know were ever needed. Some dynamic module loading also stops working once they are brought outside of the normal python environment, which is the case if you use PyInstaller or cx_freeze. I'm not sure what can really be done here. Maybe Python needs to propose a standardized way to package standalone programs like Java's jars that only depends on the interpreter.

1. https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve

Re: PysimpleGUI

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Post by vasco »

magicmicah85 wrote: post #89

We had a work requirement to start logging hours in Jira. I hated having the website open, it was slow to find the Jira I was working on, find the link for logging hours and adding a comment. I wanted a desktop app that had a list of issues assigned to me with buttons to add comments and work log hours. I messed with Tkinter but was struggling for awhile just getting it to look…nice. I stumbled on PySimpleGUI and sud…

> We had a work requirement to start logging hours in Jira

They told us they'll start doing this at my job. I started looking for a new one.

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