user-interfaces

[echo oracle]

I have css QLabel { ... } and that works for all the labels, but it also does it for the labels inside of other subwidgets which is not what I want

I only want the parent widget's children who are labels to be affected, not all labels recursively

[tidal chasm]

Hello I watched this video for custom scroll bar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBjf4bMDXY . The css for horizontal bar is left as a homework. I tried to write on my own but there the bar is not showing. Here's my css for horizontal scroll bar:

Can anyone help me out?

[fiery bison]

how to be a ui/ux

[hidden cairn]

Not quite sure what you're asking, but I think one of these should help you.
.QLabel{ Pay attention to the period(.) at the start. That means any direct QtWidgets.QLabel() instances will be targeted by that selector but any class that enherits from QLabel will not. (it's a class selector that doesn't take the inheritance tree into account)
If you only want to apply the style to elements placed directly into another one (say QLabels placed directly in a QStatusBar)
QStatusBar>QLabel (in css that's referred to as a direct descendant selector)

[hidden cairn]

[Qt] Does anyone know how to get the colors etc from an element AFTER a stylesheet has been applied?
I'm writing a Macro for FreeCAD and I don't know what stylesheet a user might have applied. I'd like my own controls to match the color scheme the user has going on.

My best solution so far has been to use QWidget.grab() to get a screenshot and then iterate over the pixels to try and figure out what the background/foreground color is but it's not super reliable (and just plain silly tbh). I was hoping to just get a list of the styles applied to a QWidget but that seems to be impossible?

Exemplifies why my pixel grabbing is unreliable. I'm coloring the keyboard plate on the right (the big rectangle) based on the color of the QPushButton the arrow is pointing to. Rather than getting whatever the font color is (white or white'ish) I'm getting yellow instead. I'm trying to calculate it by using whatever color has the highest contrast versus the background color. I'm guessing I'm ending up with yellow instead of white'ish is because one of the 'font smoothing' pixels is yellow.

[steady hill]

can someone help me plzz for installing ironpython ??😭

[onyx tusk]

I'm stuck on an issue with PySimpleGui, I'm trying to update a Column, but nothing I do seems to modify it. If I update the visibility of the Column it indeed disappears, however I can't update the elements themselves. What am I missing?

    elif event.startswith("Buy-"):
        buy_item(event.split("-")[1])
        store_ui = sg.Column([[sg.Text("I don't work")]], key="-STORE-")
        window["-STORE-"].update(store_ui) # This does not work
        window["-STORE-"].update(visible=False) # This does work

Ignore the fact that visible wouldn't show the update, I comment it out during the test

I've also tried just passing sg.Text directly into the update, doesn't change anything

It just keeps ignoring my changes

Here's the update loop

while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
        break
    elif event.startswith("Buy-"):
        buy_item(event.split("-")[1])
        store_ui = sg.Column([[]], key="-STORE-")
        window["-STORE-"].update(sg.Text("I don't work")) # This does not work
        window["-STORE-"].update(visible=False) # This does work

Showing what I mean, where not even sg.Text() works

[hidden cairn]

Is there any way to actually get the stylesheet though? I can apply my style just fine through QWidget.SetStyleSheet('border: 1px solid #fff') etc but getting anything back seems to be impossible. And I don't know which of the stylesheets (if any) is applied as the FreeCAD users can select their own themes in FreeCAD.

Oh loads, not for getting back a path to the active theme though afaik. Just to interact with the rest of the program

https://freecad.github.io/SourceDoc/index.html

I was hoping .stylesheet() on a QWidget would give back everything that's been applied to it, but it always come back blank. Even after using .setStyleSheet myself first.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Interface_Customization#Themes
Well that's a cross platform way to get to the theme folder path at least, partway there. Still not sure how to get which theme is in use though

topLevelWidgets = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance().topLevelWidgets()
for topLevelWidget in topLevelWidgets:
    FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(topLevelWidget)

Gives me a big list of mainly QMenu's

Don't know if you meant it quite this literally but

lbl = QtWidgets.QLabel()
lbl.setStyleSheet('background-color: palette(text)')
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(lbl.styleSheet())

Just gets me back background-color: palette(text)
Although at least it's not blank for a change 😮

Ah, must have messed up something previously. I can get the styles I applied in my own code back as well, before and after show

d = UiDialog()  # Extends QDialog
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(d.txtKeyboardLayout.styleSheet())
d.show()
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(d.txtKeyboardLayout.styleSheet())

Does give me the double margin-bottom: 0;margin-bottom: 0;.

[unique garden]

customtkinter

[echo oracle]

That doesn't work for me

I only want the options_info_widget stylesheet to apply for label_2 label_3 label_4 and label_5. Instead, it applies it to those labels AND the labels inside the subwidgets (label_6 and label_7) which is not what I want

here's the current stylesheet for the parent widget: css QLabel { border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: none gray none none; }

[solar stag]

Hi. Any idea how could I use OpenGL with Python on MacOS 10.15? As far as I know OpenGL has became deprecated but I need to write a universal software working on either Mac, Windows and Linux hence I am not able to do it with pymetal...

[hidden cairn]

QWidget#options_info_widget>QLabel{
    background-color: lime; /* Just direct descendants */
}

#options_info_widget is the object name of the QWidget that's the direct parent of the green labels (tried to match your naming in that screenshot you posted). The '>' is part that prevents it from being applied to labels further down the chain (grandchildren if you will)

[hidden cairn]

PySide6 (Qt)?
https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qtforpython-6.2/PySide6/QtOpenGL/index.html

The QtOpenGL module is available on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenGL supports OpenGL ES (OpenGL for Embedded Systems).

I've no experience with openGL whatsoever, but sounds like it fits the bill? At least until Apple fully gets rids of OpenGL

Looks like vulkan/metal/opengl/d3d11 are in the works https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-quick-on-vulkan-metal-direct3d if you do need to switch over in the future

[buoyant fulcrum]

Hi Guys!

I wrote an error message for an application i'm making.
Does anyone know of a better way to organise this, or a better way to display it?

(i'm using Tkinter btw)

I just think it looks a bit clustered

[solar stag]

Hi. I need it to be universal and runnable either on Mac as well as Linux and Windows

[hidden cairn]

Combining the info from QtOpenGL I've mentioned before (Mac OS X bolded this time)

The QtOpenGL module is available on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenGL supports OpenGL ES (OpenGL for Embedded Systems).
and this arstechnica article about **Mac OS
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/macos-10-15-catalina-the-ars-technica-review/3/#h2
OpenGL and OpenCL were officially deprecated in Mojave last year, though that's a little misleading since it implies that Apple had been actively maintaining and updating its support for those standards. In Catalina, as in every macOS version going all the way back to Mavericks, the macOS OpenGL implementation is stuck at version 4.1 (2010), and the OpenCL version is stuck at 1.2 (2011). This means that apps that still rely on those APIs on macOS will continue to run, provided they've been updated to meet the 64-bit-only requirement. But you shouldn't be developing new Mac apps that rely on OpenGL or CL for anything important.
opengl should work for now.

The Qt blog link I posted previously stated that Qt will support other APIs in the future. So if you need a cross platform solution where you can handle all platforms the same that should work for you for now.

If Apple ever gets around to pulling the plug on OpenGL on Mac OS in a future version then hopefully Qt is ready by then to offer you Metal support when it is needed.

Ideally Vulkan would've been the cross platform replacement for OpenGL but Apple is not going to support it so there's nothing that can be done about that.*

So the long and short of it seems to be that OpenGL is the only thing that works crossplatform reliably at the moment. In the future you'll probably have to split your efforts between Vulkan and Metal

• There is 'MoltenVK' that translates Vulkan to Metal. So perhaps that's something you could utilise or perhaps that is how Qt will resolve it in the future 🙂

[sudden stone]

is there a discord server specifically for pyqt? (not the qt discord server)

[distant sand]

i just started using eel python for user interface. i rlly like it and now my command based code has an ipad attached to it 🤣

[echo oracle]

Is there a Qt way for a signal to call a slot with arguments? I searched online and got QSignalMapper but I just wanna verify this is right

I can do something like py self.button.clicked.connect(lambda *_: self.button_slot(arguments, *_)) but is there a proper way?

or should I just call the function and get whatever I need inside the slot

[sleek hollow]

I use this lambda approach all the time. You can also use functools.partial

[echo oracle]

Is there a way to make get requests with Qt?

on top of that is there a way to open a websocket with Qt?

I read this doc page but I'm not sure it answers my question https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebsockets-index.html

nevermind I got it

[echo oracle]

Does anyone know how to make a Qt post request with json data?

I searched online and it says I need QJsonObject, QJsonDocument, and QJsonValue but they're not implemented in PyQt5

trying to do the Qt version of requests.post(url, json=json)

[grim brook]

Sorry if this might be off-topic, couldn't decide what chat to use.

I have a python script that will start a pysimplegui, I want to open the script from another application. The problem is that if my current directory isn't the same as the one containing the script pysimplegui won't find any images. Is there a way for the images to be found without changing my current directory and not have a absolute path to the images as this will be used on different computers?

[misty canopy]

That's what the __file__ constant is for - it refers to the current file.

used like e.g.

from pathlib import Path
script_dir = Path(__file__).parent # __file__ is a constant that always is a path to the python file the code is in, so its parent is the directory the script's in
# and then, for example:
images_dir = script_dir / "images"
my_cool_image = images_dir / "image1.png"

[somber hemlock]

why?

[echo oracle]

Because I don't want to depend on requests and it's better to use Qt's already built-in functionality rather than external modules

[somber hemlock]

well it might be in qt's extensions module, and if it is, its quite a big dependency by itself

Qt is a big unoptimized dependency itself

[echo oracle]

At least it's implemented by Qt and compatible to interface model and less prone to errors

why download another package when you already have a more compatible version built into the Qt interface

trust me it has it all, it's better, and it has to be Qt

[somber hemlock]

Maybe its available in PySide6 / PyQt6?

[echo oracle]

Yes, I've already figured out how to do it

I just have another problem

[somber hemlock]

What

[echo oracle]

Using these py from PyQt5.QtNetwork import ( QNetworkAccessManager, QNetworkReply, QHttpMultiPart, QHttpPart, QNetworkRequest, )

Making QNetworkAccessManager and sending a post request to it never finishes

the signal finished is never emitted

no idea what's going on there

here's some code ```py
self.manager = QNetworkAccessManager()
self.request = QNetworkRequest(self.url)

self.request.setRawHeader(b"Authorization", self.get_api_key())

self.reply = self.manager.post(
self.request,
json.dumps(json_data).encode("utf-8")
)

self.reply.finished.connect(self.__handle_reply)```

[somber hemlock]

maybe its the manager which emits finished

[echo oracle]

I tried connecting that too, didn't work

[somber hemlock]

since its the "manager"?

Have you looked at Qt's C++ docs?

[echo oracle]

I also read somewhere that finished is emitted before it gets connected but I haven't found a way to test that out yet

Yes I have

[obtuse acorn]

My clone of SQLiteStudio is coming along nicely :p

[somber hemlock]

Maybe in C++ its like reply is already declared as a private variable and connected to its finished callback before calling manager.post

[echo oracle]

I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here

are you trying to say that QNetworkReply should be declared and connected to its slots before calling the post request?

and then define it after the post request?

[somber hemlock]

C++ member variable are a bit different

The declaration and initialisation of them are different phases.

But I could be totally wrong whether its done in that manner for QNetworkReply, just find a C++ example of how its done and copy it to Python

[echo oracle]

That's exactly what I did

[somber hemlock]

Maybe in C++ QNetworkReply has a default constructor and the reply object was default constructed before hand? The callback was attached earlier to it maybe?

No such thing in Python

Maybe you are using the wrong method of QNetworkManager?

Since "post" looks like a synchronous method in Python land atleast

[echo oracle]

What do you mean

[somber hemlock]

too long to explain

maybe qt didn't implement QNetworkManager for Python properly?

[echo oracle]

That's very unlikely

[somber hemlock]

Looks like your problem is not new

Maybe finished is not getting called because some error occured?

Like the request failed, and it has a different signal?

[echo oracle]

I could check if the request goes through using wireshark

[idle otter]

anyone aware of a gui library/addon that has nice model binding - about 15-20 years ago i used pgtkhelpers which mapped python objects to tree/list models as well as binding builder uis to python classes
it seems like todays tools have nothing comparable, or at least its not obviously visible

[grim brook]

Thank you!

[storm dragon]

Does anyone know good documentation / examples for tkinter?

[spring apex]

If you prefer video tutorials, then sure, here is the link https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCC34OHNcOtoC6GglhF3ncJ5rLwQrLGnV

[storm dragon]

I'm mainly having trouble with circular dependencies when trying to navigate pages

I would think you need to import both pages to link them together but that doesn't work so I'm a bit lost rn

[storm dragon]

I also really don't understand how this is possible

[storm dragon]

Checked some of his video but it seems he always puts everything into one big file which I don't want for maintainability reasons. The thing I'm struggling with is passing data and opening windows from within multiple files so this isn't much help for me

[storm dragon]

For future reference: use parent

[granite egret]

Hi

Who using dearpygui?

[hidden cairn]

The big green thing on the right is technically a qsvgwidget. But the colours are from screenshottinga highlighted button and getting the highest contrast colours from it

[echo oracle]

Is there a better way to insert bold text in Qt? Other than doing py text_edit.insertText("<html><b>TEXT</b></html>") I don't like this way

I'd prefer not to deal with html and stuff with such basic formatting

or if there's a built-in Qt HTML library I can use to parse and make html

[amber igloo]

I made a scrollable list of buttons with PyQt5 as you can see here. My problem is that the scroll stays on the left side in the middle of the window and I can't move it. Also when I remove the scroll.setWidgetResizable(True) it still stays resizable when I change the window size. If you can help me please @ me and thanks.

[sleek hollow]

Why do you have two assignments of window_layout?

Also how are the rest of the widgets placed?

[tough pewter]

I creating an overlay for a VSRG. I have it set up, but I can't create lines of notes after root.mainloop(). When I have more than one, for example:

root.after(1000, create_falling_circle([0,1]))
root.after(2000, create_falling_circle([0,1]))

It just waits 3 seconds and then makes one line (maybe two overlapping? Not sure), instead of having one line consisting of two notes, waiting 1 second, then doing it again. Every other example of root.mainloop() or main.mainloop() doesn't have this problem. Basically; how can I create notes after root.mainloop()?

The Code:

import tkinter as tk
import time

# Define constants
WINDOW_WIDTH = 1920
WINDOW_HEIGHT = 1080
CIRCLE_RADIUS = 50
FALLING_SPEED = 1.5
LANE_X_POSITIONS = [660, 860, 1060, 1260]

# Define functions
def create_falling_circle(lane, **kwargs):
    for i in range(0,len(lane)):
        x = LANE_X_POSITIONS[i]
        y = CIRCLE_RADIUS
        circle = canvas.create_oval(x - CIRCLE_RADIUS, y - CIRCLE_RADIUS, x + CIRCLE_RADIUS, y + CIRCLE_RADIUS, fill="#f0f0f0")

def move_falling_circles():
    for circle in canvas.find_all():
        if canvas.type(circle) == "oval":
            canvas.move(circle, 0, FALLING_SPEED)
            if canvas.coords(circle)[3] >= WINDOW_HEIGHT:
                canvas.delete(circle)
    canvas.after(1, move_falling_circles)

# Set up the main window and canvas
root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry(f"{WINDOW_WIDTH}x{WINDOW_HEIGHT}")
root.wm_attributes("-topmost", 1)
root.wm_attributes("-transparentcolor", "white")
root.resizable(False,False)
root.overrideredirect(True)
canvas = tk.Canvas(root, width=WINDOW_WIDTH, height=WINDOW_HEIGHT, bg="white")
canvas.pack()

# Start creating random circles
move_falling_circles()
root.after(1000, create_falling_circle([0,1]))
# Start the main event loop
root.mainloop()```

[sleek hollow]

You aren't quite using after correctly. It expects a function object, not a function call

[tough pewter]

Like canvas.create_oval(args)?

[sleek hollow]

that's also a function call

create_falling_circle is a function object

no arguments, just the function's name

if you want to pass it arguments, you need to wrap it in something like functools.partial or lambda

if you want something to happen "once a second", I recommend defining a function called something like "second_tick" and putting all the logic into there

have the "second_tick" function handle calling the other functions

[tough pewter]

The every second was just a test for multiple lines being called, the endgame would be to have the timings and notes be read from a file.

And making them with a timer

[sleek hollow]

import tkinter as tk
import time

seconds = 0

def second_tick():
    global seconds
    print("Tick", seconds)
    seconds += 1
    root.after(1000, second_tick)

root = tk.Tk()

root.after(1000, second_tick)
root.mainloop()

Here's a simple example of how to create a function that gets called once per second

you can try running this code. It will print once per second

[tough pewter]

Maybe I could have a list outside the functions that has the next notes to be displayed, and create_falling_circle() can just read from it?

[sleek hollow]

yeah, that would be a good option

My example is just a template of delayed calls. What you do with it is up to you 🙂

[tough pewter]

Okay, thanks for your help, I appreciate it 👍

[sleek hollow]

np!

[amber igloo]

I really don't know, but when I was testing with turning them on and off nothing really changed and I still couldn't change the scroll location. Removing the second assignment of window_layout = QVBoxLayout only put the widget in the center of the screen and I still couldn't change the location.

[amber igloo]

If you mean the buttons you see on the background of my second photo they are just placed using
button = QPushButton("button", window)

[amber igloo]

I figured out that I can move the scroll by using window_layout.setContentsMargins(300, 0, 0, 0) but the window_layout / the scroll area still adjusts to its parent widget's size which is window = QWidget()

[sleek hollow]

parenting a widget directly to another widget makes it really tricky to position things accurately. You should try and make sure every widget is placed inside some sort of layout

[amber igloo]

Well yea I think each widget is placed inside a layout but luckily I just figured out how to position the scroll properly I had to use window.setContentsMargins instead

[sleek hollow]

that simply sets the padding around a layout

[amber igloo]

yep

[sleek hollow]

that's a very hacky solution to a problem that would be solved if it was placed in a layout

[amber igloo]

My scroll containing the buttons is* in a layout

[sleek hollow]

button = QPushButton("button", window) you have this for example

This is parenting the button directly to the window widget

as opposed to a layout

[amber igloo]

The problem with that was that I couldn't get the buttons to function like a scroll

[sleek hollow]

oh I thought you were concerned about the scroll appearing on top of the other widgets

[amber igloo]

Oh no haha but thanks for your time

[sleek hollow]

so the scroll area now scrolls correctly for the buttons?

[hidden cairn]

Not quite sure which class you're using there but QTextEdit does have a insertHTML method so then you can leave out the <html> tags at least.
https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-5/PySide2/QtWidgets/QTextEdit.html#PySide2.QtWidgets.PySide2.QtWidgets.QTextEdit.insertHtml

For other elements than a textedit that works a bit different from other things. You could grab the original font, apply a different weight to it and apply it again.

        lbl = QtWidgets.QLabel()
        lbl.setText('So bold')
        font = lbl.font()
        font.setWeight(QtGui.QFont.Bold)
        lbl.setFont(font)

[proven basin]

:ok_hand: applied mute to @late jackal until <t:1676991705:f> (10 minutes) (reason: duplicates rule: sent 4 duplicated messages in 10s).

The <@&831776746206265384> have been alerted for review.

[hazy nova]

does the turtle.write method call screen.update? because I have the screen tracer set to 0,0 and I can still see it writing the things one by one, is there any way to stop it from updating every time I try to write something?

[echo oracle]

It says insertHTML is not an attribute of QTextEdit

Using PyQt5

nevermind my bad

but if I call insertPlaintext after that, that text is bold

I don't want that

[sacred dirge]

Making a GUI with PySide6, made my own MainWindow class that inherits from QMainWindow, and I have multiple checkboxes that I want to run a test when they are checked for the first time.
I figured I would reuse the same class function and loop over the checkboxes I have insde the QGridLayout by doing this:

for i in range(self.checkbox_gridlayout.count()):
    cur_box = self.checkbox_gridlayout.itemAt(i).widget()
    cur_box.stateChanged.connect(lambda checked: self.do_action(cur_box))

Problem is that for some reason all the checkboxes end up running the do_action function as though the last checkbox was checked, regardless of which one I actually checked
IE: I check the first box, and have do_action print out the name of the checkbox, and they all print out the name of the last one
Does using connect for signaling only allow you to map one function to a signal?

[rocky dragon]

The lambda will capture the value of cur_box at the time it's executed, so it'll be the same for all items. You can use partial or do a cur_box=cur_box default arg

[sacred dirge]

Ah that makes more sense, let me try it out with partial

Seems I was just doing things a little dumb
I created my own class to inherit from QCheckBox that implements a check_action function, so instead of cur_box.stateChanged.connect(lambda checked: self.do_action(cur_box)) I was also trying to do cur_box.stateChanged.connect(lambda checked: cur_box.checked_action()) which also didn't work since it's using a lambda
So I changed that to cur_box.stateChanged.connect(cur_box.checked_action) and it just works 🤦‍♂️

[mighty frigate]

@sacred dirge sadly iterating over a layout is never good idea

In short, at the end it is Qt that decides what's in your layout, and you might have a lot more than just your components, even if you didn't explicitly add it

[amber igloo]

yes and the position of it is correct

[sacred dirge]

Is that the case even though I have this layout just for these check boxes, and I do that loop over the widgets in the layout right after I've created and added them?

I don't mind making a separate list to contain the check boxes and loop over that, I'm just wondering what could be added to the layout outside of what I put into it

[sonic badge]

hi (I hope I'm not on the wrong channel),
I am currently learning python. I have a project due in 1 week. I decided to make a user interface for this project using the Tkinter module.

I have a problem with my buttons, they don't appear as I want them to appear (cf screens).

I would like the white borders in the corners that the module adds to make a button with rounded edges but I don't see what is blocking it.
here is my code

img0 = PhotoImage(file = f"img0.png")
b0 = Button(
    image = img0,
    borderwidth = 0,
    highlightthickness = 0,
    command = btn_clicked,
    relief = "flat")

b0.place(
    x = 875, y = 520,
    width = 390,
    height = 180)```

[mighty frigate]

@sacred dirge tons of stuffs, it depends on what you're doing

spacers are a good example

[silent river]

what is a good tool to create modern looking ui?

like library

[sacred dirge]

tikinter if you're just starting out (it's built-into Python)
PySide6 / PyQt for Qt
Kivy is another one
Plenty others listed in this channel's description at the top

[sonic badge]

⬆️ Can someone help me with this problem please ? In short, I don't know how to make Tkinter support "transparent" pixels in my images

[echo oracle]

Does anyone know in Qt when you do push_button.setMenu, is there a way to separate the menu and the button itself from doing different things?

right now I'm pressing the button and instead of the clicked signal, it just opens the menu

[sleek hollow]

You could use a button for this instead of QComboBox

Or you could attach the menu as a right click context so you can still use the button as a button with left click

[echo oracle]

It's not a combo box, it's a push button

if you're referring to the images I posted

I'm just looking for a functionality where there's a button, and an arrow right next to the button that opens a drop down context menu to extend the original use case of the button

I'm sure you've seen something like that done before

[sleek hollow]

So the dropdown only appears when the right side of the button is clicked?

[echo oracle]

Nope, when the whole button is clicked

[sleek hollow]

But why do you want the clicked signal then?

[echo oracle]

So clicking the button would do something

and the drop down menu would extend on the its functionality

[sleek hollow]

but how are you separating "clicking the button" from "showing the menu"

how does the button know what you want?

[echo oracle]

There's a button and a drop-down menu connected to the button

that's what I want

but right now there's either a button without a drop-down menu or just a drop-down menu and no button

The button to open the drop-down menu should be next to the push button (and connected to it)

[sleek hollow]

so why not use 2 separate buttons?

[echo oracle]

I could but I was just wondering if there's a built-in way (which there should) to extend a button to allow a drop-down menu

[sleek hollow]

so then you do want this

a single button, but if you click the arrow, you get a dropdown?

[echo oracle]

Yes

exactly that

here's an example

(took it from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5695313/qt-drop-down-button which says I need a QToolButton but I'm not sure where to go from there)

[sleek hollow]

hmm let me play around with it for a sec

[echo oracle]

Sure take your time

[sleek hollow]

so it looks like the menu popup behaviour of the qtoolbutton is a "press and hold", but it does have what you're after

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtGui


class DropdownButton(QtWidgets.QToolButton):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent, text="Send")

        menu = QtWidgets.QMenu()
        action = QtWidgets.QAction("Click me", menu)
        menu.addAction(action)
        self.setMenu(menu)
        self.setFixedSize(100, 50)
        self.clicked.connect(self._on_click)

    def _on_click(self):
        print("Hello")


app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])

win = QtWidgets.QDialog()
btn = DropdownButton(win)
win.show()
app.exec()

you can try running this small example

if you click the button, the method is called, but if you press and hold, the menu is shown instead

[echo oracle]

I mean that could work, but I've seen the example I've given above used so much before, it's really weird how there's not a built-in way to do something like that without having to make 2 separate buttons

[sleek hollow]

oh found it!

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtGui

class DropdownButton(QtWidgets.QToolButton):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent, text="Send")

        menu = QtWidgets.QMenu()
        action = QtWidgets.QAction("Click me", menu)
        menu.addAction(action)
        self.setMenu(menu)
        self.setPopupMode(QtWidgets.QToolButton.MenuButtonPopup)
        self.setFixedSize(100, 50)
        self.clicked.connect(self._on_click)

    def _on_click(self):
        print("Hello")


app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])

win = QtWidgets.QDialog()
btn = DropdownButton(win)
win.show()
app.exec()

self.setPopupMode(QtWidgets.QToolButton.MenuButtonPopup)

this is the magic

[echo oracle]

Perfect, thanks!

[neat granite]

hello, can anyone help me to make a GUI that can convert excel files to xml files.

[hazy nova]

does anyone know if there is a method to validate if a string is the name of a valid colour for turtle? if there isn't, what are all of the named colours? I can make it check for hex codes separately

[livid robin]

hey guys, what's the recommended TUI python library for Windows10+ ?

pytermgui?

[somber hemlock]

textual, rich

both are cross platform

[somber hemlock]

look through the turtle source code all the possible values might be listed somewhere

[vocal kelp]

im using pyqt5 and i have a sortable list [i am trying to make a mod manager] how can i find the order the items are in in that list? I need to know this so I can know the mod load order, as thats an essential feature of any mod manager

ignore the settings thing i was testing something

[sleek hollow]

When you sort them, I would just update an attribute alongside that notes down the sorting method. I don't think you can query how something is currently sorted

[sleek hollow]

in pyqt5, I have a vbox with groupboxes added to it, and those have hbox layouts. I've changed the size constraint so they don't stretch across the entire vbox, and they work perfectly when they have items added into them. However, if I have an empty groupbox (or a long name and few items), they shrink down so much that the text gets cut off. How can I at least set a minimum size? setMinimumWidth doesn't seem to work because the sizeConstraint trumps it. Is there a better approach to preventing the stretch than using a size constraint? Here's some example images

[sleek hollow]

if someone wants a basic example to play around with https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ofoqacumer

[tidal totem]

I am building UI using qml.
but not recognize Cell in Grid.
Hope someone help me.

App/UI/main.qml:16:2: Cell is not a type

[warped epoch]

If someone working around tkinter and ctypes(or pywin32)
How can I change color of ExpandFrame that created by
ctypes.windll.dwmapi.DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea

or hide or unfill or something that it will be disappear?

[vocal kelp]

the user sorts them not me, its sorted via the ui

[vocal kelp]

if i sort it via numerical order and have buttons that call a function to move them down and up and that changes the numbers on each of the items that seems like a really ineffiecent way but all i can think of

another thing is i dont think pyqt5 supports asynchronous functions so i dont even know how i would change things

[delicate hawk]

        self.frameContCanvas.grid(row=2,columnspan=2)
        # Scrollbar orizzontale
        self.scrollbarH = tk.Scrollbar(self.frameContCanvas, orient=tk.HORIZONTAL)
        self.scrollbarH.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky="ew")
        # Canvas per FrameMaterie Container
        self.canvasFrameMateries = tk.Canvas(self.frameContCanvas,width=150,height=150)
        self.canvasFrameMateries.grid(row=0,column=0)
        # ------- Frames Materie -------
        for self.x in Studente.materie:
            StudenteFrame.materie.append(self.frameMateria(self.canvasFrameMateries,self.x,self.colonnaframe))
            self.colonnaframe += 1
            self.canvasFrameMateries.update_idletasks()
        # Canvas configure
        self.scrollbarH.configure(command=self.canvasFrameMateries.xview) ```   

I have a problem with the horizontal scrollbar. The Horizontal scrollbar returns to his origin position when i try to scroll. Why?

can anyone help me with this thing?

[vocal kelp]

this is my modList class, i am trying to print the selected item, while debugging it seems that it always thinks modA is selected in the index, but still shows the rest of the items in the listview

class modList:
    View = ui.modList
    Model = QtGui.QStandardItemModel()
    View.setModel(Model)
    Items = ["modA", "modB", "modC", "modD", "modE"]
    for item in Items:
        i = QtGui.QStandardItem(item)
        Model.appendRow(i)
    def itemDown():
        print("downButton clicked, fired itemDown()")
        item = modList.View.selectedIndexes()
        print(modList.Model)
        print(getData(modList.Model))
        print(item)

anyone have any ideas?

[somber hemlock]

Are you extending into client area just for the purpose of making a dark title bar?

[echo oracle]

Can anyone give me an example of QNetworkProxyFactory, I just can't understand how it works/how it's supposed to be used

I know it's supposed to be inherited from and have a function queryProxy be overridden (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qnetworkproxyfactory.html#queryProxy)

But I'm not sure of how a basic implementation of this class would look like

[sleek hollow]

unfortunately moving items up and down with a model/view is a bit of a pain. This article is pretty thorough with a solution

http://pharma-sas.com/move-items-up-and-down-in-a-qlistview/

[unreal copper]

I'm using tkinter and i want to know how to stop a loop and start a new loop

[fiery mountain]

To stop a loop in tkinter, you can use the after_cancel method. This method cancels a previous after call, which is a method that schedules a function to be called after a given time delay.

[ebon heath]

import customtkinter
```  I already did "pip install customtkinter" but still it doesn't recognize it (vscode)

[unreal copper]

Thnx bro

[drifting temple]

your vscode is using a diff python interpreter

[somber hemlock]

I think the import name is slightly different

!pip customtkinter

[proven basin]

customtkinter v5.1.2

Create modern looking GUIs with Python

[somber hemlock]

ahh nvm

you installed it into a different environment

[hazy nova]

for some reason when I hover over a widget I made a Hovertip for, nothing appears, is there anything I have to do before it will appear? do I have to make the tooltip before or after I pack/grid the widget?

oh wait I was underestimating the time I needed to hover over it

[tidal totem]

can you do me a favor?

I am making ui using pyqt6

if someone has experience, please help me.

hello I am making UI using PyQt6, please help me.
there is blockers

[digital rose]

Hi,
I ran my login screen and ended up getting “W/System (3768): Ignoring header X-Firebase -Locale because it’s value was null”. I am using flutter.

Found few solutions on the internet and tried them but didn’t find any luck.

Solutions tried:

1. Checked and enabled all necessary firebase sign-in providers
2. Emulator upgraded and connected to wifi

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

[warped epoch]

Custom titlebar, borderless window with drop shadow 🥹

[somber hemlock]

good luck

i dont think u will be able to use tkinter's widgets in the titlebar if u plan to do so

[warped epoch]

I got it

just apply CS_DROPSHADOW(0x00020000) style, but need to remove while dragging window(cause of laggy)

but the round corners are not working perfectly

[warped epoch]

Just wan to share my work using tkinter 🙂

[cursive tapir]

That isnt customtkinter?

Or tkinter

[warped epoch]

My custom widget, just default tkinter 🙂

[somber hemlock]

So you did get the slider control working in titlebar?

Is it a tkinter control or a skinned native one?

[warped epoch]

Its my custom titlebar, it is my SwitchButton using tkinter canvas

[void crane]

Nice

[wheat obsidian]

Does anyone knows how to use django here

[hard lake]

yeah used it in my couple of project

btw if need help ask in web development channel

[somber hemlock]

Hmm canvas uses gdi so yea that's possible

[unreal copper]

So i used a loop to display an array by using only one label, and i dont know how to update the label with new values that have been added/changed in the array

[unreal copper]

Bro that's actually sick, props to you

[mighty rock]

@burnt lotus regarding the first question, the problem is maybe with the lines above that line

[torn shadow]

hi guys

i need help

i using tkinter

for my program

and this is my problem

def title():
        global kvanker_lable
        kvanker_lable["text"] = Edit_name_title["extvariable"]
    
    Edit_name_title = Entry(windowedition
        ,bg = "#2c2c2c"
        ,fg = "white"
        ,width = 33
    )
    Edit_name_title.place(x=70,y=20)
    
    
    Save_btn = Button(windowedition,text="Save"
        ,font = "fixedsys 20"
        ,bg = "#2c2c2c"
        ,fg = "orange"
        ,width=50
        ,height=2
        )
    Save_btn.place(x=-250 , y=300)
    Save_btn.config(command=title)    
    windowedition.mainloop()

I want to change the name of kvanker using what I write in the textbox

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/782713858615017503/1079500151745413251/image.png

i cant choose name

[burnt lotus]

@mighty rock i have fixe that it´s good now but gote more problemes now

[somber hemlock]

@torn shadow What you can do is, assign a textvariable to your label and modify its contents as text is typed in the entry on the right side

Or you can probably use the same textvariable for both the label and entry, I think this will work

[digital rose]

Cool

I have a question

how to customize the nav bar?

[warm bay]

Who can help with pyqt

[torn shadow]

thanks man

its worked

[digital rose]

someone speaks frensh ?

[delicate hawk]

how did u do custom widgets?

[ionic nacelle]

How do I get data from hidden column when using table widget?

[warped epoch]

As you can see, every widget has a Frame or Canvas as a background (Super class), which is the area of the widget. We will bind various events to define its functionality within its class.

We will send various parameters to create it, such as root (required), width, height, color (optional) blah blah, and place it like a default tkinter widget.

[warped epoch]

Here is my switch button parameter, and value setter with animation process

(sorry for wwwww shape 🥹🥹🥹)

and this is how to use it

[cursive tapir]

With that library, you cam use while True?

With tkinter no

[warped epoch]

hm?

[torn shadow]

can't open/read file: check file path/integrity

def filedlog():
    file = filedialog
    file.askopenfilename() 
    image = cv2.imread(f"{file}")

?

[hasty karma]

In PyQt5, I want to resize an Image to the size of an QLabel to display it, but it is always cut off or too small. How can I achieve this?

[somber hemlock]

my 🧠 already crashed processing that

obviously it will not work

[warped epoch]

maybe 🤔

image = cv2.imread(r"{}".format(file))

[somber hemlock]

they are using file everywhere for some reason, why not use some other names?
askopenfilename() returns the path to file(s), here it is not saved in a variable

[torn shadow]

Because it is more common

[somber hemlock]

what?

[torn shadow]

they are using file everywhere for some reason, why not use some other names?

Because it is more common

[hollow pivot]

hey

I have wrote a code to generate a unique entry for every value in a list variable and it's likes this:

root = tk.Tk()
grades = [[id, {grade_id: int(grade_id), student_id:int(student_id), course_id: int(course_id), grade: int(grade)}], [id, {grade_id: int(grade_id), student_id:int(student_id), course_id: int(course_id), grade: int(grade)}], [id, {grade_id: int(grade_id), student_id:int(student_id), course_id: int(course_id), grade: int(grade)}]]

for grade in grades:
     entry = tk.Entry(root)```
in this bite of code I wanted to create a unique entry for each grade in the list, but the only entry that my code returns value of it in submit function is the entry of last value in the list. how can I make them seprate from each other and make it to return entry of all grades?

[digital rose]

Hi there! I'm looking to fill paid feedback surveys for anything related to #user-interfaces

[sleek hollow]

Pack them after you make them. I recommend storing the new entries in a list as well

[hollow pivot]

I've done it but in a more cool way

[sleek hollow]

and what way is that?

[waxen ruin]

I'm looking to make a TUI for my app. I want it to work via SSH in powershell or unix terminal. It's really hard for me to figure out exactly what colors and ANSI escape codes are cross platform. Are there any good resources on or cheat sheets for making cross platform CLI/TUI?

[mighty frigate]

@hasty karma it depends on what you're are doing and how you're doing it

@hasty karma Qt will take all the space it can

to illustrate, the default behavior wil lresize the app if the image is too big

example :

import sys
import os

from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        central_widget = QWidget()
        self.setCentralWidget(central_widget)

        img_path = "some/path/to/images.png"

        label = QLabel(central_widget)
        label.setPixmap(QPixmap(img_path)) 

        central_widget.setLayout(QVBoxLayout())
        central_widget.layout().addWidget(label)
        central_widget.layout().addWidget(QPushButton("Ok"))
        central_widget.layout().addWidget(QPushButton("Cancel"))

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = MainWindow()
window.show()
app.exec()

things changed when you starts to limit the size things can have

[hasty karma]

I already found the solution myself but thanks fo helping 👍

[mighty rock]

The escape sequences are the same on all main terminal applications with the exception of the interpretation of some of the first few ones @waxen ruin

And colors may be a bit off

[glossy urchin]

Hi, I need help to convert my desktop
app (Inventory) from .py to .exe .
there is in total 3 .py files.
I did convert the whole script with:

• auto-py-to-exe
  -PyInstaller
  and InstallForge

everything is fine during the compiling
process. But when I click on the
main .exe file. its open a close in a second
with out any message.

can somebody please guide me through
this process.

[somber hemlock]

!pip textual

[proven basin]

textual v0.13.0

Modern Text User Interface framework

[somber hemlock]

!pip rich

[proven basin]

rich v13.3.1

Render rich text, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, markdown and more to the terminal

[inland wedge]

!pip poop

[proven basin]

poop v0.0.0

No summary provided.

[echo cypress]

interesting

[bleak gazelle]

Fascinating

[proven basin]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied mute to @hearty tree until <t:1677932305:f> (10 minutes) (reason: discord_emojis rule: sent 24 emojis in 10s).

The <@&831776746206265384> have been alerted for review.

[slim cairn]

Do someone knows the resource to get familiar with the PyQt6 framework. The most of time i am looking is that how to do this and that. I am looking for some resource which can serve me this requirement

I am also looking other peoples project to know more about the working system. since most of time i find other projects using other than PyQt5 and I struggle to find that which the objects are belonging to which sub-module of the framework to import from. I find a drastic change of importing components from PyQt5 to PyQt6.

[digital rose]

Just wanted to share a quick experience with y'all, Spent SO long trying to figure out why the text wont line up like I want and realized its because in different font families the length of different characters vary 🗿

[digital rose]

Made a grep gui

[digital rose]

I am on windows 11 what VisualStudio plugin allows me to make a GUI graphically?

[somber hemlock]

make yourself familiar to Qt's C++ docs

they're the best you can get

[somber hemlock]

which lib are u using?

there are no vs plugins for making python UIs

[digital rose]

@somber hemlock Nevermind I decided to go with Windows Form

[somber hemlock]

lmao

[digital rose]

why?

[somber hemlock]

don't use winforms

[digital rose]

why...

[somber hemlock]

i could argue tkinter is better than it

[digital rose]

how...

[somber hemlock]

cross platform, and canvas

u can actually make cool uis with tkinter if that's what u are looking for

winforms at best is meh

[mighty rock]

The internet says you can create your own control have it use its own Graphics instance which you can freely use to draw anything in the control's OnPaint event handler

[low pilot]

Hi,
Please help, very new to Tkinter, I want Text widget, but when I use it instead of Label layout changes.

    label = tk.Label(root, text="initial text", font=('Merriweather', 24), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F', wraplength=2500)
    label.grid(row=0, column=0, rowspan=5, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew", padx=10, pady=10)
    frame = tk.Frame(root)
    frame.grid(row=5, column=0, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew")
    show_word = tk.Text(frame, font=('Merriweather', 60), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F')
    show_word.insert("1.0", "initial word")

Above code is not working as expected

This is working as expected,

    label = tk.Label(root, text="initial text", font=('Merriweather', 24), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F', wraplength=2500)
    label.grid(row=0, column=0, rowspan=5, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew", padx=10, pady=10)
    show_word = tk.Label(root, text="initial word", font=('Merriweather', 60), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F')
    show_word.grid(row=5, column=0, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew")

How do I change first code to have the same layout

In the first case when I am using Text widget, whole window is occupied.

What I am doing wrong, please help

I tried without frame, but that is also not working,

    label = tk.Label(root, text="initial text", font=('Merriweather', 24), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F', wraplength=2500)
    label.grid(row=0, column=0, rowspan=5, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew", padx=10, pady=10)
    show_word = tk.Text(root, font=('Merriweather', 60), bg='#F7ECCF', fg='#77614F')
    show_word.grid(row=5, column=0, columnspan=5, sticky="nsew")
    show_word.insert("1.0", "initial word")

[somber hemlock]

huh

what are u talking about

[mighty rock]

WinForm's improvision of tkinter.Canvas

[somber hemlock]

winforms is just a win32 wrapper

u get all the same problems u get with tkinter but in a different language

[mighty rock]

tkinter abstracts the API differently and in my opinion it does a meh job of it compared to WinForms. WinForms also utilizes all of the API and lets you use all of it theoretically I think

In tkinter these stuff are a lot more verbose because it's so abstracted away from the API

[hasty karma]

Im trying to color the background of an QScrilkArea in PyQt5 through qss but there are always these little uncolored gaps around the elements in the scroll area. What im a doing wrong

[midnight siren]

I have a question, i want to make that kind of selection in Tkinter, is it possible to style multiple selection in that way?

can you please help, if you know

im working on accounting application, it looks next way, why it has poor quality, anyone knows?

[drifting zephyr]

Can anyone help me with my program not being able to run more than 3 times

[young sedge]

When you ask for help, make sure you provided goal you wish to achieve, provided real goal what you are trying to achieve also.
Code examples you made so far, most important in text format (screenshots are very bad, and should not be used unless absolutely necessary). If it has errors, provide errors too.
Basically show what you already tried so far, that you already Googled your problem and not knowing how to find solution for sure.
Then ask for help with explaining what exactly you struggle with moment
see this guide for more information: https://pythondiscord.com/pages/resources/guides/asking-good-questions/

[quartz dust]

So, I want to be able to rotate the cube by the mouse being clicked and dragged anywhere on the screen where the cube is it will then change the rotation of the cube until the script is closed, then the rotation will go back to how it was before that. I have a variable that gets the mouse position, I have a variable that gets the mouse in general, I just don't really know how to do this right now. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the script: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/qufigezofo.

[unreal copper]

im using tkinter and im having problems with how labels and buttons interact when using grid to make a layout

i made a label that goes below a group of buttons and i made its width more than the buttons

but now the buttons are wierdly spaced out

is there a way to make it so wigets width doesnt affect other widgets in the same column?

[sage oxide]

is that for phones ?

[sleek hollow]

No, the column's width is always as wide as its widest widget

[unreal copper]

is there anyway to change that

[sleek hollow]

Depends on the type of layout you're trying to achieve. Maybe grid isn't what you want

@unreal copper

[unreal copper]

is it the same for place()

[sleek hollow]

no, place is absolute, and I highly recommend not using it

pack is the alternative

you can mix and match pack and grid with the use of Frames

[unreal copper]

hmmm, thnx for the help

[kind chasm]

Ayo are there any good alts to tkinter. It looks junky and old. I want my app to be fresh looking 🤓

Also yeah i Heard abt ctkinter but idk if it is safe or reliable

[young sedge]

Probably the best looking for some electron based stuff 🙂

It worked for Discord and vscode at least

[kind chasm]

Ok thanks <3 will look through online resources but it sounds good

[mighty frigate]

is electron really that good ?

am I the only one to think that building a dektop app with web techs is not a good idea ?

[bleak gazelle]

I have a question about PyQt5. There is a method insertAction that allows you to insert QAction in QWidget before a certain widget. But is there a way to add same thing but with a QToolButton or QPushButton?

[young sedge]

it is not good idea. But if you know only Python and Javascript (and probably all other interpreting languages)... you don't have a lot of choices.
Not sure about JS, but Python desktop solutions all straight suck, or having overcomplicated expensive licenses
On this ground, using electron is least evil out of available choices

[young sedge]

Better solution would be using more appropriate for desktop development language.
Java, Golang, or even C#

i am quite strongly eyeing Java choice. Minecraft was made with this, and cross platform by design for any OS 🤔 quite temptful choice

C# is very easy to use for desktop dev with Visual Studio

Golang? I saw at least wireguard made with this, should be good choice at least from the point of cross platform easy compilability

Probably Rust can be a very very good choice for desktop dev too

[mighty frigate]

@young sedge QtQuick (available in PySide afaik) is probably a good fit in that case.

@bleak gazelleplease elaborate on exactly what you're trying to achieve

as you wouldn't typicaly add actions to widgets

[young sedge]

PyQT stuff is having expensive licenses, is it applied to Qt Quick as well?

[mighty frigate]

I believe so, yes

PyQt*

even tho there's an opensource license, the commercial license is arguably expensive

also I never quite understood the difference between PySide and PyQt

[quartz dust]

Can someone help ,me here: Can some please help me here: https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1082343666682703932.

[somber hemlock]

Electron is just your chrome browser

Packaged with your app's code

[somber hemlock]

Different licensing

[rough mango]

You can go with Qt; stylesheets and paintEvents go a long way

[rough mango]

So you want a button nested within a button?

[mighty frigate]

@somber hemlock exactly, it's like a huge tech stacks for no reason.

[bleak gazelle]

No. For example, we have two buttons: a and b. And I want to insert new button c after button a.

[rough mango]

oh

[rough mango]

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qboxlayout.html#insertWidget

prob doesn't work for grid layouts though

[scarlet sage]

hey does anyone has experience/projects made with customtkinter package? i really like the premade styling and the easy json design integration on this one...

[wide gorge]

i have a ui with tkinter i want to convert it to custom tkinter, converted some buttons but the arguments of it doesn't change and doesn't count.

[somber hemlock]

look at customtkinter's docs

[wide gorge]

already

[somber hemlock]

what exactly is the problem

[wide gorge]

like the radius and fonts doesn't change

idk why

it doesn't give an error

[somber hemlock]

And you are trying to change them how?

[wide gorge]

customtkinter.CTkButton(root, text="Save", command=name, width=10, height=0, corner_radius=8, font=customtkinter.CTkFont("MOTHEM_Black", 20)).place(x=675, y=150)

[agile warren]

is there a way to make u click in python other than pyautogui please help

[misty canopy]

mouse or pynput can do it too, but why not pyautogui?

[unkempt fossil]

I wanted to work on a project, i planned to use tkinter earlier but then i realized that it can be bad... so i found PyQT (on reddit) then i saw it has shit gpl, so i switched to PySide
Is there any better lib?

[undone ginkgo]

suppose you're using tkinter and you're making a Treeview:
tree = ttk.Treeview(columns = ('abc', 'xyz'))
is there any way for a user to toggle a column?

i want what the image shows, it comes from 7-zip, there you can toggle whether or not certain columns are present, but unfortunately i can't find anything at all that could help me accomplish this with a Treeview

i've gotten fairly close, but i just can't get rid of those empty columns on the right

i just found out on my own that you can assign a new tuple of column ids to tree['columns'], though this breaks existing header text for some reason, so i'll need to experiment and find out how i can account for that... i'll keep listening if someone has a better idea
edit: it works, you just have to rewrite all the headings each time

[supple cliff]

Looks Awesome 👍

[digital rose]

Thanks

[mighty frigate]

@unkempt fossil define "better"

[somber hemlock]

GPL is not shit. If its not for you, buy a commercial license

[unkempt fossil]

brudda $500

i will stick to pyside

[unkempt fossil]

better = superior

[mighty frigate]

Qt is one of the best UI framework out there.

because of its maturity, its documentation and its huge amount of features

so unless you're able to specify your needs more precisely

then no, there's isn't one.

@unkempt fossil

p.s: PyQt and PySide are functionnaly the same afaik.

[unkempt fossil]

huh

i saw on many "forums" that pyside is slow

im not sure tho

[mighty frigate]

of course it's slow, it's python

what's your point

[unkempt fossil]

ye...

so a questoin

i cant pay $500 for my program

sitcking to pyside then

[mighty frigate]

do you want to sell your program

[unkempt fossil]

no

wait

wait

i mean not yet

[mighty frigate]

Qt has a opensource licence, which is free

[unkempt fossil]

also 2nd option is to share your code

open soruce

or something

then it will be free

[unkempt fossil]

yes

[mighty frigate]

yes, you need to take a look at the Qt licensing

the license specific to PySide I do not know, but it would be weird to be different from the C++ Qt lib

[unkempt fossil]

its lgpl

last question, is it fine to use pyside then?

pyqt has more to offer

larger community, more updates and stuff

[mighty frigate]

what ?

PySide and PyQt are both wrapper to Qt

[unkempt fossil]

yeah

but minor differences

[mighty frigate]

I've never seen any significant difference between the 2

[unkempt fossil]

and pyisde has lgpl

[unkempt fossil]

true

[mighty frigate]

now there's loads of other UI lib out there

[unkempt fossil]

QT wrappers are 🔥 so...

[mighty frigate]

Qt

[unkempt fossil]

dunno about other ui libs

[unkempt fossil]

tbh i wonder why they chose "Qt"

it sounds liike

cutie

[mighty frigate]

well

yes indeed 🙂

Qt (pronounced "cute"[7][8][9]) is cross-platform software for creating [...]

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)

a few other libs:
https://pyimgui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://docs.python.org/fr/3/library/tkinter.html
https://flet.dev/
https://www.wxpython.org/

with a bigger list here:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

[unkempt fossil]

i heard that wxpy is good

thanks btw

i dont wanna use tkinter tho

[mighty frigate]

I've used Qt for years so I'm not the best person to help you pick one

but if I were to try something else I would probably look into flet, it looks pretty

[unkempt fossil]

broo

i just looked it up

and u can develop mobile apps!?

i thought i need learn something for many horus

hours

[mighty frigate]

apparently it's cross-platform

[unkempt fossil]

yes!

[unkempt fossil]

to leanr/

idk why i miss words while typing

[unkempt fossil]

i never learned much about mobile apps

[mighty frigate]

it also looks pretty young, and there's 200 tickets opened as we speak so

[unkempt fossil]

can you make both apps with it? ios and apk

[mighty frigate]

probably not ready for production

[unkempt fossil]

by tickets, you mean support?

[mighty frigate]

yes

their bugtracker in github has 200 tickets in progress

[unkempt fossil]

like you need to learn swiyft for ios and something else for apk

[unkempt fossil]

ehh

[midnight siren]

currently, I'm just creating that for pc

mb in the future, i will do a version for phone

[plain oasis]

Hi I want to get data from user via file browser. I need to get the path of the selected data and add the paths into an array. Is there any way? Pls help.

[somber hemlock]

you will need to check pysimplegui docs if it offers file open / save dialogs or you can use the ones provided in tkinter.filedialog

[viral stream]

# Zeile 1
row1 = ctk.CTkFrame(window)
row1.pack(side=tk.TOP)

# Label für Öltemperatur
öltemp_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row1, text="ÖLTEMP", font=("Arial Black", 15, "bold"))
öltemp_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Label für Öldruck
öldruck_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row1, text="ÖLDRUCK", font=("Arial Black", 15, "bold"))
öldruck_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Zeile 2
row2 = ctk.CTkFrame(window)
row2.pack(side=tk.TOP)

# Label für Öltemperatur-Wert
öltemp_wert_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row2, text="", font=("Arial", 15))
öltemp_wert_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Label für Öldruck-Wert
öldruck_wert_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row2, text="", font=("Arial", 15))
öldruck_wert_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Zeile 3
row3 = ctk.CTkFrame(window)
row3.pack(side=tk.TOP)

# Label für Kühlwassertemperatur
kühlw_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row3, text="KÜHLW.", font=("Arial Black", 15, "bold"))
kühlw_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=10)

# Label für RPM
rpm_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row3, text="UMW.", font=("Arial Black", 15, "bold"))
rpm_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Zeile 4
row4 = ctk.CTkFrame(window)
row4.pack(side=tk.TOP)

# Label für Kühlwassertemperatur-Wert
kühlw_wert_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row4, text="", font=("Arial", 15))
kühlw_wert_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

# Label für RPM-Wert
rpm_wert_label = ctk.CTkLabel(row4, text="", font=("Arial", 15))
rpm_wert_label.pack(side=tk.LEFT, padx=5)

#Linie unterhalb von allen Sensorwerte
line = tk.ttk.Separator(window, orient="horizontal")
line.pack(fill=ctk.X, pady=5)

I need help with my program, the problem is that I can't get the description in the third line to be the same as the first line.

[ionic nacelle]

in pyqt5 how would I unselect records when the user clicks outside the qtable widget?

[rough mango]

?
it should automatically de-select when you click off the tabls

[stray jackal]

i call it cutie....

[low pilot]

Hey guys,
I have multiple lines, with highlight_index like following:

[('map is all about navigating the', 15), ('Map : Learning the Terrain The ', 18), ...]

I want to display it in text widget tkinter such that highlight_index always display in same x position in the screen.
Any way to do that?

[true gust]

Hi all!
I've got the code in the pastebin posted below.

On line 77, I bind pressing Tab on the keyboard while in the message text to a function called message_change_focus
It is supposed to print test, then change the focus to the __address_box widget
However, in practice, it prints test, then does nothing else

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

Code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/etaceribuk

[digital rose]

hi how do i make these buttons function?

[digital rose]

how do you launch pyqt after installing it?

i can't find it in start menu

[digital rose]

ah then how do you install and launch qt designer?

[digital rose]

pyqt6

i tried but i kept getting error
if i installed pyqt6 but not via pip then i tried to install pyqt6-tools using pip

will it work?

ah nvm

i did install it using pip

then why does pyqt6-tools not install

i keep getting error

and how did you fix the issues?

is that the official website?

when i first saw it in google when searching, it seemed like sus

[digital rose]

i may have gotten the same error when i tried installing pyqt5-tools just now

because you said this

so i thought it was a known bug or smthg

i'll check

also i installed pyqt5 first before installing the tools

[somber hemlock]

You can download Qt from its official website qt.io

It comes with an installer, use it to install qt designer

[digital rose]

thank you, i'll check it!

[somber hemlock]

or you can check it out on chocolatey if you have it

[digital rose]

i can't find qt designer there

i see qt design studio which is money

[somber hemlock]

Qt has an installer did you download it?

[digital rose]

i can't find the installer

[digital rose]

ah this?

[digital rose]

this error happens in qt installer

i'm thinking of just using tkinter at this point

i mean bruh how many things do i have to go through?
and had to make an account and signing in, etc

[sinful pendant]

I use pyqt6 which i installed using pip

And as per my knowledge for pyqt designer you dont need all that, you can pip install that too

[digital rose]

#user-interfaces message

when i use pip install pyqt6-tools

[sinful pendant]

It says issue with package

[digital rose]

how would i fix that

i don't get it

[sinful pendant]

Looked up for this in stackoverflow but i wasnt satisfied with the answer

I suggest you to use older version unless the problem is fixed

[digital rose]

i also tried installing pyqt5-tools and got what seemed to be same error

using pip

[sinful pendant]

😐 dont have answer for that. searching on google seems like it has been problem before also.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74212597/metadata-error-when-installing-pyqt6-tools

Found this one.

[shell delta]

I have a couple of tkinter frames that are gridded to another frame

However the subframes don't take up the whole space that they could do

is there any way so that they use all of the space in the larger parent frame?

I can share some code if helps

[digital rose]

bruh all this for the tools?

alright i'll try later

[somber hemlock]

can u share a pic of what you want?

[royal cape]

to my knowledge pyqt5 and pyqt6 only have prebuilt wheels up to python 3.9, so downgrading python should make the tools install seamlessly

[digital rose]

I have both 3.9 and 3.10

Cant i specify in cmd that I want to pip install it for 3.9

[somber hemlock]

py -3.9 -m pip install YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME

[cyan relic]

.

[dreamy gyro]

hi guys , wrote a pop it(that toy) clone on tkinter

https://github.com/sontaimnt/Pop-It

[digital rose]

does anyone know how people can make tools such as this for example using python?
https://github.com/LagoLunatic/GCFT

would pyqt be capable of making something like that that has gui and can view textures

etc

[digital rose]

thx, i'll try

[digital rose]

when i do that, i don't have qt designer inside pyqt6_tools, it's instead inside here site-packages\qt6_applications\Qt\bin

is that normal?
because in this video from 3 years ago, he had it inside qt5 tools folderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpho_UiDAY

[red junco]

danke

[digital rose]

danke?

[red junco]

oh i mean thx

[digital rose]

pyuic6 command doesn't work for me https://youtu.be/FVpho_UiDAY?t=564

does anyone know what i can do?

[somber hemlock]

i am not really familiar with pyqt6, i tried pyside6 some time ago and i could use all the tools correctly

and idk if both of them follow a different structure or it changed over the years

[somber hemlock]

Its nice to have Everything installed when u want to find a particular file

[digital rose]

by the way, is there a way to convert a .py file to .ui?

[somber hemlock]

no

it always works the other way round

why would u want to convert a python file to .ui?

[digital rose]

yes but if i converted the .ui to .py, then i added a few more stuff to the .py, i can'

t go back?

[somber hemlock]

You don't add stuff directly to the py file created from the .ui file

It is an autogenerated file

[digital rose]

actually i found a workaround python -m PyQt5.uic.pyuic test.py -o test.ui -x

[somber hemlock]

What you can do is import the generated py file in another module and do what you need there

any reason why you are using qt5?

[digital rose]

what do you mean?
after i genrated the .py from the .ui file, i modified it via idle, and i added some pretty dope features, but idk how to revert the file format to continue working on it in qt designer with the added features

[digital rose]

i'm using qt6

i think?

i mean

[somber hemlock]

PyQt5 is for Qt5

as the name suggests

[digital rose]

qt designer is from qt6
but the command is from qt5

because when i change the command to qt6, error

[somber hemlock]

there might be incompatibilities if you mix qt5 and 6 tools

[digital rose]

so i don't mind the qt5 in the command bcuz works

[digital rose]

well maybe the qt developers should've thought about that a bit more

i mean they didn't make the tool compatible with 3.10 from what i heard so i have to jump across

from python 3.9

and qt5 for converting ui to .py and i use qt6 version of qt designer

[somber hemlock]

the tool itself is a compiled EXE, it doesn't require python

But somewhere in the wrapping and packaging to python wheels it seems to get messed up

That's why I told you to use the Qt installer

but it unfortunately didn't work for u

[digital rose]

the one where i need an email?

[somber hemlock]

Yes

[digital rose]

yea it didn't work eventually

even though i finished creating email and stuff lel

bruh

also

why are you using pyside

and not qt designer

[somber hemlock]

Pyside and qt designer are 2 different things

[digital rose]

yea

[somber hemlock]

PySide includes designer

And all the tools you need

like pyuic6 etc

PySide is also licensed under a much less restrained license

[digital rose]

ah ok
i'm a little tempted to try to install it, but considering all the trouble i had to go through to get qt designer, not sure if i wanna risk it

also this guy apparently used pyside too https://github.com/LagoLunatic/GCFT

[somber hemlock]

PySide is a python binding for Qt. qt designer can be used independently regardless from where Qt is used

[digital rose]

i know, i just don't know if i'll get error whe n itry to install it

and then have to go through wacky goofy adventures

to get it to work

[somber hemlock]

I think PySide does have 3.10 wheels

[digital rose]

ah nice

[somber hemlock]

PySide6 btw

!pypi PySide6

[proven basin]

PySide6 v6.4.2

Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework

[digital rose]

how do i uninstall the current version of qt6-tools so then i don't have duplicate applications
i don't want 2 qt designers

i'll try installing pyside

[somber hemlock]

I'd suggest using virtual environments

You can isolate deps and get rid of all this dependency hell

[digital rose]

wut

well apparently it installed

[somber hemlock]

That's why its suggested to avoid MS Store python

what it means is you can't invoke those tools directly from the cmd line

but you can maybe invoke them with py -m YOUR_TOOL_NAME

[somber hemlock]

And you got the designer, its called "pyside6-designer.exe"

[digital rose]

what do i replaceyour_tool_name with?

do i have to do it with each one?

like with pyside designer

and then repeat with other?

[digital rose]

nice, thx

[somber hemlock]

for the designer it might be pyside6-designer

[somber hemlock]

Yes, since none of the mentioned exes are in your environment's PATH variable

As I earlier said, better use venvs

Don't touch the global python installation at all

[digital rose]

i tried that, didn't work

i think i may have 2 pythons, one in D drive and another in C drive, but not sure

this one that can't find is in d drive

[somber hemlock]

Try it without the .exe extension, else locate the path of the exe and add that folder to your PATH environment variable

[digital rose]

how do i add anything to PATH?

i keep seeing people mentioning PATH

like do i right click it and choose a certain option?

or

[somber hemlock]

https://google.com

[digital rose]

tbh i prefer firefox overall, it doesn't consume as much energy

[somber hemlock]

?

google.com is a website
firefox is a browser, different things

[digital rose]

ok nvm

[dreamy gyro]

i wrote the pop it toy on tkinter

1st one :- 5x5
2nd one:- 3x3
4th one:- 4x4

https://github.com/sontaimnt/Pop-It

please feel free to check it out

[velvet seal]

Hi! So I'm working on a python project with kivy, and it keeps sending me an attribute error, even though this tutorial im following says to do that
line 15, in btn
print("name:", self.name.text, "email:", self.email.text)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

class MyGrid(Widget):
    name = ObjectProperty(None)
    email = ObjectProperty(None)

    def btn(self):
        print("name:", self.name.text, "email:", self.email.text)

[tribal path]

the example likely has some kv thats loaded

[velvet seal]

like a .kv file?

[tribal path]

file or string yea

[velvet seal]

i have one so im not sure why i keep getting the errow :(

[tribal path]

are you sure the kv file is loaded?

[velvet seal]

im sure!

[tribal path]

MyGrid
    name: name
    email: email
    TextInput:
        id: name
    TextInput:
        id: email
    Button:
        on_release:
            root.btn()

yea those commented bits shouldn't be there

and remove the quotes on the ids

[velvet seal]

what do u mean the commented bits

[tribal path]

name and email

[velvet seal]

oh okay thank you i got it to work :)

wait nevermind it just crashed D:

wait nvm i forgot to take the quotes off lmao

[spice monolith]

Is there a tkinter expert here? I would be very grateful if you could help me with something.

[sleek hollow]

Your best bet is to just ask the question you have or open a help thread

[spice monolith]

Actually, I opened a topic for help, but when no one answered, I thought I'd write it here, maybe someone will see it.

[digital rose]

Ok but you haven't even began asking the actual question

What's the point if a tkinter expert sees this comment if they have to say "I'm an expert" then wait for maybe even hours or days before you reply

[spice monolith]

Oh sorry. You're right about that. My fault.

[sleek hollow]

Also most people won't generally offer help to unknown questions

[spice monolith]

yeah you are right =(

i just wanted to find the solution right away so i didn't think about it

thank you anyway

and now i found the solution already

[arctic prairie]

how do i make an entry with tkinter that once i click on it the text inside disappears immediately?
I am trying to learn how to use tkinter…

[mighty frigate]

@sleek hollow so how are you doing ? It's been a while since you ask a Qt question, still playing around with it ?

[somber hemlock]

You can do it, but why do you want this behaviour? It can get super confusing for an end user

[brave palm]

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label

# Replace this with your
# current version
kivy.require('1.11.1')


# Defining a class
class MyFirstKivyApp(App):

    # Function that returns
    # the root widget
    def build(self):
        # Label with text Hello World is
        # returned as root widget
        return Label(text="Hello World !")


# Here our class is initialized
# and its run() method is called.
# This initializes and starts
# our Kivy application.
MyFirstKivyApp().run()

code

[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /home/iam/.kivy/logs/kivy_23-03-13_50.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v2.1.0
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/__init__.py"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.11.2 (main, Feb  8 2023, 14:49:25) [GCC 11.3.0]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "/usr/bin/python3.11"
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Purge log fired. Processing...
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Purge finished!
[ERROR  ] [Clock       ] Unable to import kivy._clock. Have you perhaps forgotten to compile kivy? Kivy contains Cython code which needs to be compiled. A missing kivy._clock often indicates the Cython code has not been compiled. Please follow the installation instructions and make sure to compile Kivy
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/iam/Documents/Python Files/Kivy/1.py", line 2, in <module>
     from kivy.app import App
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/app.py", line 416, in <module>
     from kivy.base import runTouchApp, async_runTouchApp, stopTouchApp
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 28, in <module>
     from kivy.clock import Clock
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/kivy/clock.py", line 466, in <module>
     from kivy._clock import CyClockBase, ClockEvent, FreeClockEvent, \
 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kivy._clock'

Process finished with exit code 1

error

[dreamy gyro]

https://github.com/sontaimnt/Pop-It

please check it out

[arctic prairie]

i am just trying to learn how to use tkinter… idk what’s best to use it for and stuff, haven’t found any useful guides so just going along with my thoughts for now

[sleek hollow]

Oh yeah I use it every day for work

[brave palm]

help me pleaseeeeeeeee

[brave palm]

guys please help me

[sly topaz]

Hello guys I want to learn how to create GUI should I start with PYQT5 or PYQT6?

[sleek hollow]

Nice article illustrating the differences and which to choose

https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/pyqt5-vs-pyqt6/#:~:text=As we've discovered%2C there,d suggest starting with PyQt6.

[sly topaz]

Thanks

[hushed gulch]

Hey all! Anyone been using pyautogui successfully on macbook?
I used it on my computer a few months ago and everything was perfect, but on my girlfriends mac everything ( pixel rgb values, x : y click() function coordinated and locateonscreen accuracy ) is broken (edited)
I am currrently on 12.0 macos Monterey
and I have installed all the dependencies as well as given my ide admin perms ( pycharm )

after testing on this site, I have discovered for some reason it gravitates towards the color purple

no matter what color I have it wants to make it into a puple one

Just semi-fixed my own issue

well I didn't fix it

I found the reason

it took me so long

but the screenshots made for some reason are only of my background

nothing else

Even though it doesn't get the VERY EXACT pixel it works now with this simple change in security settings.

So yeah.. if anyone in the future is searching here for the macos fix for pyautogui macos not taking proper screenshots

know that it took me like 4 hours and begging on here ( no one answered yet 😄 ) to find the cause

Now a new issue.. if anyone has an idea why it returns a slightly lower value every time, then Id be happy to know! 😄

[supple cliff]

Anyone know of a way to make tkinker ui better

[sly topaz]

Pyqt5 Im am trying to display a plot on an existing widget object can someone help me out?

[kindred thorn]

I wrote smth that installs VM automatically

@echo off
echo Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox...
start /wait https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.26/VirtualBox-6.1.26-145957-Win.exe
echo.
echo Installing Linux...
start /wait https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.3/ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
echo.
echo Creating a new virtual machine...
VBoxManage createvm --name "Linux Machine" --ostype "Ubuntu_64" --register
VBoxManage modifyvm "Linux Machine" --memory 2048 --vram 128 --acpi on --boot1 dvd --nic1 nat
VBoxManage storagectl "Linux Machine" --name "IDE Controller" --add ide
VBoxManage storageattach "Linux Machine" --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium "ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso"
echo.
echo Starting the virtual machine...
VBoxManage startvm "Linux Machine"

.

.

remember to run this on CMD with admin enabled

[waxen spindle]

https://github.com/Neefs/flask-gui-test
how do I compile src folder
back-end/gui is main file

[somber hemlock]

why does pyside6 not have stubs for the signal / slot mechanism

!pypi IceSpringPySideStubs-PySide6

[proven basin]

IceSpringPySideStubs-PySide6 v1.3.1

PySide6 stubs with Qt signals and Qt documentations and more

[somber hemlock]

found this instead

[dreamy gyro]

https://github.com/TomSchimansky/CustomTkinter

https://github.com/israel-dryer/ttkbootstrap

[vivid shard]

How get it ?

[dreamy gyro]

means?

in order to get it you have to make a folder named PopIt

[vivid shard]

Ok

[vivid shard]

after that ?

[somber hemlock]

@sleek hollow hi i need to make a treeview in qt which looks like the one in Qt designer's widget picker. How can i get those vertical headers? I am using a QStandardListModel subclass as the model

[proven basin]

Hey @vocal viper!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[vocal viper]

Hello, I'm trying to run an external Tkinter code using the "exec" function.
The code to be executed successively modifies (every 0.1 seconds) the text displayed on a secondary window that it opens (it does this 100 times, i.e. a total of 10 seconds), the problem is that instead of displaying the successive modifications to me, the window appears after 10 seconds with the last value that was supposed to be displayed, I then have two questions:

(1) How can I make the window open immediately and the successive changes to the label be visible to the user?

(2) I had to add the following lines to the "change_label" function of the "code_a_execute.py" script to make my code work:
{
global label
global fenetre_secondaire
global change_label
}
Normally I don't think this is necessary, why is it here? Is it because of the way the "exec" function works?

Principal script - > https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ceperovusu
Secondary script - > https://paste.pythondiscord.com/edodazuwoc

[sudden thunder]

i have made a python code that downloads the youtube video you have chossen into a mp3 or mp4 but it is without a user interface how can i make a user interface for it

should i make a whole new code or add it to the existing one

[brazen basalt]

you can use tkinter or pyqt6/pyqt5

[brazen basalt]

totally depends on you. but making it from scratch won't be difficult unless the interface in your mind is a very difficult one

[sudden thunder]

thx mate

[brazen basalt]

[shell mirage]

Good day people! I have 2 keyboards plugged into my PC and i want my Python program to be able to receive input only from one of them. So either i need to somehow tell the program to read only from one device or block input from all unwanted devices. What would be the proper way to make either of these work?

[mighty frigate]

what's your opinion on QtQuick with Python ?

[rocky dragon]

to me it looked like you may be better off using kivy if it's just for the gui

[mighty frigate]

could you elaborate ? @rocky dragon

[wide gorge]

hello i am using ctkinter for my desktop application i get an error related to update the widget i think if you can help me :
gui.py

root = customtkinter.CTk()
cmd = Text(root, width="120", height="17", wrap=WORD, bd=0, bg="#292929")
cmd.place(x=65, y=430)
cmd.tag_config("green_tag", foreground="green")
cmd.tag_config("red_tag", foreground="red")

backend.py

from gui import cmd
def link():
    print("started")
    cmd.insert(END, "   inserted text    \n", "green_tag")
    cmd.see("end")

here is the error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\asus\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2528, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "c:\users\asus\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1825, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "c:\users\asus\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1823, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "c:\users\asus\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1799, in dispatch_request
    return self.ensure_sync(self.view_functions[rule.endpoint])(**view_args)
  File "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\LvvzRYBot\backend.py", line 368, in index
    return json.loads('{"value":' + str(start()) + '}')
  File "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\LvvzRYBot\backend.py", line 353, in start
    link()
  File "C:\Users\asus\Desktop\LvvzRYBot\backend.py", line 72, in link
    cmd.insert(END, "____Downloader____\n", "green_tag")
  File "c:\users\asus\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 3743, in insert
    self.tk.call((self._w, 'insert', index, chars) + args)
RuntimeError: main thread is not in main loop```

[somber hemlock]

its good but its not for every purpose out there

but it helps you achieve that mvc separation more easily

[vocal viper]

Nobody know ?

[digital rose]

does anyone understand this error?

[digital rose]

the first line here in this screenshot is to connect the def show_pic(self)

line 90 is the fname = QtWidgets....

[somber hemlock]

You need to escape backslashes

D:\\...\\... like so

[somber hemlock]

It looks like you are adding your own code in the generated class, don't do that!

any and all changes you do get lost when you rerun designer with your .ui file

[digital rose]

I converted the .ui to .py, which means I can't use it in qt designer anymore
Second, if I don't add my own code in there then how will I make the buttons I added in qt designer have any function?
Afaik, you can't give buttons functions in qt designer, only add, resize and position them

[digital rose]

I did add \

Fir the path in string

[somber hemlock]

I don't see two backslashes in your pic above, do you get the same error after you add them?

[digital rose]

Where am I supposed to have the 2 backslash, I'm confused

[somber hemlock]

The correct way would be to make a separate QMainWindow subclass and use the UI_MainWindow class inside it. Its given in pyside's docs

You can connect signals to slots in Designer but that's it

[somber hemlock]

In the location, e.g. D:\\Program Files\\my subfolder

where you call QFileDialog.getOpenFileName

[swift cave]

in my tkinter code, I have a field like Latitude: <some value>

How can I change it to

Latitude:
<value here

[digital rose]

still doesn't open a window to select file from file explorer when i press the picbutton button

i was watching this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXdTedPk7VA

i tried to do it with a seperate gui.py file and it loading the gui.ui file, but didn't help

[digital rose]

this one doesn't even boot up the application

[swift cave]

what error does it show

[digital rose]

for which version?

[swift cave]

many a times window opens in the background

have you tried changing window/tabs and then check if the window has opened or not

[digital rose]

none of them give error

one doesn't boot

[swift cave]

simple diagnosis I've faced a lot of times during tkinter

[somber hemlock]

I think you MainWindow class should subclass QMainWindow not QDialog

[digital rose]

and other doesn't do anything when clicking button

[digital rose]

what do you mean by subclass?

you mean i indent it inside the original class?

[swift cave]

my question got flooded up so lmk if someone has an answer or not

[somber hemlock]

class MainWindow(QDialog)

Here MainWindow is subclass of QDialog

Try making it QMainWindow instead

[swift cave]

in my tkinter code, I have a field like Latitude: <some value>

How can I change it to

Latitude:
<value here

should I create another label for <some value>

[digital rose]

ah ok

[digital rose]

class MainWindow(QMainWindow) doesnt allow app to boot

i keep it Qdialog and it boots

[somber hemlock]

Wait hangon

Why are you doing MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() in your code?

[digital rose]

where?

ah i think that's by default from qt designer

maybe

[somber hemlock]

below the __main__

[somber hemlock]

I don't think so

Because then your class MainWindow is no use

you should also use snake_case for variables and CapitalCase for class names

to reduce confusion

[digital rose]

it is from qt designer
i compiled the .ui file again and yea it's there
(don't worry i didn't overwrite the original .py file)

[digital rose]

well the original class name was made by qt designer
and "snake_case"?

anyways why does the window not pop up?

when clicking the button

[somber hemlock]

Because as I said, you are creating a new blank MainWindow and setting up all the controls inside it

The class MainWindow you create is getting called no where

replace the line

MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow()

with

mainwindow = MainWindow()

[somber hemlock]

@digital rose

[digital rose]

ok

[digital rose]

i can't boot up the application

when i return it to the original, it boots

[digital rose]

wait a sec

is that mainwindow a typo?
did you mean MainWindow?
in second code line

i just kept it regular, with upper case
but i just noticed the lowercase

was that intenional

well i guess it doesn't matter because either way:
mainwindow = MainWindow()
and
MainWindow = MainWindow()
both make app not boot

[somber hemlock]

judging from your questions i think you should take some time to learn python first

[somber hemlock]

the second will never work in python

Because both the names are same

so you need to use a different name

[digital rose]

i did take quite a lot of time (months) learning python, from a paid course via Jupyter

The problem is that jupyter doesn't have def and class afaik

so

[somber hemlock]

this

[digital rose]

also i used python in a game engine before the course

[somber hemlock]

are the basics

class declarations, instances, variable names etc.

[digital rose]

well the basics for making an application via python sure

[somber hemlock]

realpython has some really high quality free content

[digital rose]

yea i know how to make variable names
in the game engine each script started with the line mentioning the class so i don't create multiple classes per script

aka i don't have class creating experience

i mainly worked on pre made classes

[somber hemlock]

u should learn about the syntax then

[digital rose]

you mean when to indent, how use while loops, for loops, make variables, etc?
because i learned that through the jupyter course

there was an entire quiz dedcated to error types

syntax error, value error, typeerror, index error, indentation error

etc

i also learned about lists, etc

[somber hemlock]

you should learn about OOP then

it will teach you how classes work

[digital rose]

ancronym?

[somber hemlock]

object oriented programming

[digital rose]

yea that's what i did with the game engine

each object had a script

andf i used signals to connect them

[somber hemlock]

maybe you should do a revision then

look at your old code, copy what works?

[digital rose]

can just help me figure out how to make this open file explorer?
the python in the game engine wans't entirely pure python and jupyter doesn't allow you to do stuff like opening a new window to select a fgile from file explorer

also the game engine is godot, so when i say wasn't entirely pure python, it's because it's called gdscript, but a lot of the main functions are based on python. The scripting language itself is based on python
and after i took the jupyter course, i see

[somber hemlock]

your code is correct, somewhere u missed something which causes it to not work. its hard to say what

[wide gorge]

someone can maybe help ?

[digital rose]

for example:

for commenting

: after if statement, and you have to indent, not curly brackets
you use lists the same way (i actually first used lists in the engine after i learned how to use them in jupyter, was cool to see it work)
even the connect(self,... stuff seem basically nearly the same as python
but instead of def, it's func

[digital rose]

ah ok

[digital rose]

Update: When i modified the code inside the __ main __ thing, i got the application to open, but the button for opening the file explorer dissapeared

this is how it's supposed to look like

the image selector is the button that should open file explorer

[digital rose]

ok nvm, i just had to expand the fixedwidth and fixed height

now the button appears, but it doesn't do anything

at least app works now

still button doesn't work

[digital rose]

i changed this from (object) to (QDialog) and it now finally works, and the button opens file explorer

Also i'm not sure if i mentioned it before but, now i only have that class

the other class i removed it, and i just put some of the defs from there on the original class

Also i did a sussy or smthg

[digital rose]

Ok so now i'm trying to make it so when i select a png file, it would display the PNG in the application
I already know how to make it display an image when i click on the button (1st screenshot), but the thing is, is that i only know how to do it when it's already determined inside the code, the path
what i want to try to do is make it so you click the button, go to file explorer and choose the image, then it appears, that way it isn't pre determined in code (2nd screenshot), but i got an error when trying to do it (3rd screenshot)

[sleek hollow]

QFile Explorers' return a tuple of selected items, even if only one thing is selected. You need to access the inner element of the returned tuple if you want the filename

[digital rose]

What would be the proper way of writing it?
In the Jupiter course, when we learned about lists, we also learned about the kinds of lists that are tuple. Basically, if a list had parenthesis rather than square brackets, then that meant it was tuple, and when a list is tuple, you can't modify it, only append it and stuff onto other lists that aren't tuples

[sleek hollow]

yes, but you're only interested in reading the data inside it

selected_files[0] would be getting the selected file (assuming that's your variable name)

[digital rose]

I don't really know how to do that outside of jupyter

[sleek hollow]

python syntax is the same everywhere

[digital rose]

So is fname[0] QtGui in this case?

[sleek hollow]

I don't know your variable names

[digital rose]

The variable (list in this case) name is in this screenshot

fname =...

[sleek hollow]

I don't think you need self here as an argument

[digital rose]

Ok, thx

[digital rose]

i need self

when i remove it, then it does't open file explorer

[sleek hollow]

ahh, the value returned is a tuple

separate it so it's not all 1 line

[digital rose]

how

[sleek hollow]

do the getopenfilename above and then pass in the result below

result = getfilename()
pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap(result[0])

roughly like this

[digital rose]

do you mean
result = getOpenFileName()?

[sleek hollow]

the idea is important, not the exact function names

[digital rose]

ah ok

[digital rose]

tbh, i don't get it

i mean i know you can't add stuff to tuples, but i'm trying to figure out what's going on here
and also where i would use "pixmap" in
so are you basically creating a new list and adding stuff in it?

[sleek hollow]

no, when you use getOpenFileName(), it returns a tuple of strings representing the files you had selected

you can't create a pixmap from a tuple

so you need to access the string inside the tuple to create the pixmap

[digital rose]

ah ok

sidenote, the way i display the images is through a label object
so instead of pixmap, should i say the name of the label object = (the the string inside tuple)

[sleek hollow]

you need to create the pixmap and then apply it to your label

[digital rose]

ah ok

[sleek hollow]

self.label.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap('path/to/image'))

you're already using that method correctly in your code. The issue is the data you're passing to the pixmap

[somber hemlock]

getOpenFileName returns a tuple of (file_name, selected_filter), not a tuple of file names
To allow multi-selection, getOpenFileNames is used

[sleek hollow]

sorry yes, but the overall issue was still that it was returning a tuple and not just the string

[digital rose]

what about this error?

this happens when i change it from ( to [

for Qpixmap

[somber hemlock]

How do I convert a glyph from a font icon to a QIcon using QtWidgets

[sleek hollow]

why do you have [] in there?

[digital rose]

so then i don't get tuple error

[sleek hollow]

🤨

[digital rose]

so then it's not a tuple

[sleek hollow]

() isn't what makes it a tuple

() is also used for function calls and execution order

[sleek hollow]

🤷

[digital rose]

i know but in this situation, it makes it a tuple

[sleek hollow]

no it doesn't

[digital rose]

if you have { instead of [

i mean (

that's what i learned from the jupyter course

[sleek hollow]

that's not correct

[digital rose]

literally what the professor said

[somber hemlock]

I mean QML supports this, can I use some QML API to get it working on QtWidgets?

[sleek hollow]

your professor is wrong

[digital rose]

well then why don't i get the error

[sleek hollow]

No clue, but worth looking into. I've never used QML

[digital rose]

for tuple

[sleek hollow]

you never separated the getFileOpen like I mentioned above

[somber hemlock]

the tuple is in the return value, passsing [] in the arguments won't make a difference

[sleek hollow]

I told you what the solution was and you tried your own thing and then are wondering why it isn't working still

[digital rose]

i tried, but i never figured out what you wanted me to do, so i kept getting errors and crashes

[sleek hollow]

then show us what you tried so we can help

[digital rose]

ok, i'll recreate it

[sleek hollow]

If you're unsure of basic data types and how function calls work, you're going to have a really hard time with PyQt