GUI builder for Python

[Smille Purusa]

Hi,

Just wondering if there's a good GUI builder for Python. Something like
Visual Tcl, where you just drag and drop objects.

Not too good with creating user interfaces from code along.

Thanks

You can try boa or pythoncard.

Smille

 

[henry]

Hi,

Just wondering if there's a good GUI builder for Python. Something like
Visual Tcl, where you just drag and drop objects.

Not too good with creating user interfaces from code along.

Thanks

 

[Alex Martelli]

Michael Peuser wrote:
...

There are some commercial GUI Builders out of the normal budget.

By the way, I hear that PythonWorks is "out of development" but they're
still selling licenses to existing customers only. I wonder if there is
any chance the Tkinter GUI builder that came with it may be freed...

Free ones are Black Adder for Qt, BoaConstructor for wx and some stuff
like PAGE or SpecTIX for TIX.

BlackAdder isn't free -- it's cheap but still commercial. If and only
if you're under the conditions for using the GPL license for Qt &c --
basically if you're developing GPL for free operating systems, I think
that's a fair summary -- you can use Trolltech's own QtDesigner and
then pyuic to generate Python from the resulting XML file (that's more
or less what BlackAdder does nowadays, though in a more integrated way:
it uses an external QtDesigner rather than trying to "embed" it as it
once did in earlier versions).


Alex

 

[Michael Peuser]

Hi Alex,

Michael Peuser wrote:
...

By the way, I hear that PythonWorks is "out of development" but they're
still selling licenses to existing customers only.

This is what they say on their pages - I ask in this group some days ago
about the state (especially of the uiToolkit) but there were no replies so
far....

..... I wonder if there is
any chance the Tkinter GUI builder that came with it may be freed...

This would be great because it would give us a very profesional IDE. I am
even willing - let's have a look in my purse - yes, about 25 $/Euro for it
;-)

BlackAdder isn't free -- it's cheap but still commercial. If and only
if you're under the conditions for using the GPL license for Qt &c --
basically if you're developing GPL for free operating systems, I think
that's a fair summary -- you can use Trolltech's own QtDesigner and
then pyuic to generate Python from the resulting XML file (that's more
or less what BlackAdder does nowadays, though in a more integrated way:
it uses an external QtDesigner rather than trying to "embed" it as it
once did in earlier versions).

Quite true. Although I like Qt very much and rate it highes among the
existing GUI-Toolkits - the quite license situation is somwhat annoying.
There is not only Trolltech involved but another company (Riverbank, I
think) for the Python bindings.
BTW the scientitific plot package PyQwt is great.

 

[David M. Cook]

Just wondering if there's a good GUI builder for Python. Something like
Visual Tcl, where you just drag and drop objects.

I like the way glade produces an xml file that can be loaded dynamically by
libglade. PyQT/qtdesigner and wxpython/wxglade have similar features
apparently.

There's an article on pygtk and glade in September's Linux Journal:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6586

Though the author seems to have missed the autoconnect method, which will
automatically connect callback functions/methods with the same name as the
handlers you define in glade.

Not too good with creating user interfaces from code along.

Not one of programming's most thrilling chores.

Dave Cook

 

[henry]

You know any free ones for Tkinter?

thanks

Hi Henry,

there is a discussion of this topic from time to time - every week I should
say ;-)
Everything depends on the GUI-Toolkit you have selected:
Tkinter?
PyQt?
wxPython?
Or an even more exotic one like FOX, FLTK, GTK+ or PyUI?

There are some commercial GUI Builders out of the normal budget.
Free ones are Black Adder for Qt, BoaConstructor for wx and some stuff like
PAGE or SpecTIX for TIX.

Kindly
Michael P

 

[dan]

Hi,

Just wondering if there's a good GUI builder for Python. Something like
Visual Tcl, where you just drag and drop objects.

Not too good with creating user interfaces from code along.

Thanks

Been wondering myself. How is http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxworkshop/?

this looks nice and it's free.

 

[Michael Peuser]

I'm wondoering about Visual Wx. This looks like someone put much
work into it, but I haven't been able to get it to do anything.
This is probablyt because I can't find any documentation in English
that tells how to get it to do anything.


Al

Well try it out then - a little bit English is in it ;-)
http://visualwx.altervista.org/indexen.htm

Attention: a lot of spam pop-up adds!

Kindly
Mchael P

 

[dan]

Have you tried it? It is not a Python tool ;-) And there had been not much
move there for more than a year...

What do you mean about it not being a Python tool? It supports
wxPython, right? If you mean it wasn't written in Python, why should
I care about that?

There is a well known set of GUI Builders for Pyhon around, most of them
mentioned in this thread.
The most important decision is what GUI-Toolkit to use. This will influence
much of your *programming* tasks that follows the *layout*. Printing?
HTML-Widget? Drag-and-Drop?
Agreed.

There is no silver bullet at the Python market at the moment...

Too bad.

-dbm

 

[Michael Peuser]

Well, of course you are absolutly right, but we are real programmers aren't
we. And all interface is english (with even less typos than in my postings
;-)).

Given, that Visual Wx is meant for C++ as a lot of other GUI Builders.
Python and Perl is a side issue, but it seems to work. For a preview you can
only use:

Build - Run which starts the Python interpreter with the Python code. But
where is the code?

- Make a new Project
- Select a template that sounds good: Menu_Toolbar_Python e.g.
- Store it somewhere.

Now it is a little disappointing that nothing breathtaking pops up.
But you already can "RUN" it. Looks great.
Use the tree at the right hand side to open the design of MyFrame or look at
the source code (Python). In seems there is something missing (MyApp,
MyFrame), but you can open the sources using the L-Icon. The problem now is,
that the file types is set to Python and - hey presto - there are the files.


Well, all over a little immature but that's the situation with most of the
tools, which were meant for C++ und got a Perl/Python outlet...

Kindly
Michael Peuser

 

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

Just wondering if there's a good GUI builder for Python. Something like
Visual Tcl, where you just drag and drop objects.

Not too good with creating user interfaces from code along.

Thanks

If you are about to go with PyQt I would recommend you try eric3
(http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html). It is an IDE built for
Python coded with Python and PyQt. And most of all, eric3 is free. As
its GUI-Builder it uses Qt-Designer.

Detlev

 

[Bobo O]

I'm wondoering about Visual Wx. This looks like someone put much

work into it, but I haven't been able to get it to do anything.
This is probablyt because I can't find any documentation in English
that tells how to get it to do anything.

my english is bad...sorry

You execute these steps in order to add project

1) file\new project select template for python gui
2) store project in the new directory
3) double click on the right panels for open file

Add components:
1) Select component on the left panel
2) draw it on the form

Change parent components
1) draw panels & components on the form
2) select component for change parent
3) select properties tag on the left panel
4) change parent property

Notebook :
1) draw notebook & panels
2) change parent property of the panel (set notebook component like parents)