I once made a simple serial monitor GUI with this. It's really easy to use, and has better defaults than vanilla tkinter.
However, as soon as I discovered VS Code's serial monitor plugin I abandoned my project.
PysimpleGUI
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#72I 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…
Each section has a clear heading. If you don't care about a section, all you have to do is scroll a little bit. No one is forcing you to read the "about me" section.
Some people actually enjoy reading about tools, rather than just looking at it from an entitled viewpoint of "what can I do to get this running as fast as humanly possible while reading as minimal words as possible". This is a tool that someone else wrote that you get to use for free, so stop whining and let them be free to express themselves as they see fit.
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#73I kinda prefer CustomTKinter, which has a much elegant and material theme-like look. Supports light/dark theme as per system on windows/Linux/MacOS.
Thanks for posting about this. I had no clue it existed and I have to say I agree I really like how elegant it looks.
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#74I kinda prefer CustomTKinter, which has a much elegant and material theme-like look. Supports light/dark theme as per system on windows/Linux/MacOS.
Thanks for posting about this. I had no clue it existed and I have to say I agree I really like how elegant it looks.
Been working with it for the last year or so and the looks are alright but I just completely loathe the way tkinter is designed... it just feels so old.
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#75I wrote a very simple Python gui tool and posted it a few months ago:
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#76PyGTK is not hard to use. ChatGPT can help you generate an app.
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#77The examples look straight up taken from the 90s esthetically [0]. Don’t get me wrong, for prototyping/internal tools that need a GUI to be usable by people not tech savvy enough to use a CLI it’s perfect, but what about the cases where you want things to look good? While native UI are always best for performance etc, I’ve always found them harder to style than a webpage. What is the equivalent of components (listed…
I'm sure it's a matter of either doing it well or poorly, but in my experience, "styled" UI's are one of the reasons why software is so bad for most software and most users. At least the default UI style provided by the OS is something people can learn and transfer from one app to another. And since I'm not a gifted UI designer, it's probably better than anything I can come up with.
It also adds to the already crippling cost of software development. The words you dread to hear from marketing: "Our software looks old."
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#78Well, it's starting to get close to the ease of use of VB6 or Delphi/Lazarus. Progress is definitely being made, now they just need an interactive GUI builder, so you can just #import the forms you make, the Bob's your Uncle.
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I lost a boatload of time on a project trying to get WxPython and WxFormBuilder to work together years back... any little change in the forms broke everything in the backend. I finally wrote a little shim that mated everything up, until I had to change a fields Type, and it broke everything. It appears that won't be the case here. (Thank goodness!)
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#79Earlier 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.
I urge you to scroll to any point in the readme and read, and recount what you read, because most of it is repetetive and fluff for no (obvious to me) reason
Seems fine to me. In fact, it seems way better than most docs. I don't get the issue you're having with this.
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#80I 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 think the problem is they named it "Simple", thus implanting in the mind of the reader a certain preconception about what to expect.
It is like if you name your project with the words Smart, Open, Trusted, Secure, etc etc, people will tend to point out that it doesn't meet it's name ideal.
Contrast with a project like C or BSD. What's the opposite of C? Nothing. Nobody can point out that "Hey, the C language doesn't live up to it's name" because it's name has no connotations or preconceptions.