user-interfaces

[sudden elk]

makes sense cause it'd be nonsense for me to put here all zip folder with all project code

i used frames and scrollbars

but smh doesnt work

[sleek hollow]

you can use a grid then and set a fixed number of items per row

[sudden elk]

i use pack

[sleek hollow]

it won't autosize but it's better than nothing

well then don't use pack

you're not forced to use pack

[sudden elk]

i use pack cause i can make more dynamic layout

[sleek hollow]

how is pack more dynamic?

you could use a frame to represent each row. After each widget, get the width of the frame. If it exceeds a certain threshold, create a new frame to act as a new row

It's not such a simple implementation though

[sudden elk]

no, like i have frame and non-wrapping items (buttons) inside

[sleek hollow]

I'm not really sure if it's possible to have it auto wrap based on window size

At least not in tkinter

[sudden elk]

like i have a structure:

app
- top frame
- - 2 buttons
- progressbar frame
- - progressbar
- left frame
- - items
- center frame
- - items
- right frame
- - another items

[sleek hollow]

Ok yup, I can see it in the image above

You want the items in the left/center/right frame to wrap? So it's not 1 button per row?

[sudden elk]

yeah and if items in either frame exceed it resizes window instead of making a scrollable (even if i added scrollbars…), if i ever resized window back to normal it wasnt even scrollable

i just want a 3-column layout with possibility of infinite items in each

[sleek hollow]

I'm not sure that's possible with tkinter (at least not with some serious custom code)

[sudden elk]

like on text widget i was able to do it once…

[sleek hollow]

wrapping text in a text widget is very different

[sudden elk]

yeah…

[sleek hollow]

What do these buttons actually represent?

[sudden elk]

i want similar behavior as discord have with its chat so i can scroll up

[sudden elk]

it will be a game template

[sleek hollow]

I'm not sure what that means

oh is it like a cookieclicker?

[sudden elk]

more of an alchemy/"doodle god" but rest of behavior i'll try to add by myself

[sudden elk]

do you see all chat log at once? yeah…

[sleek hollow]

but why does the chat log need to be buttons?

[sudden elk]

its an example

[quasi narwhal]

Can anyone help me create a gui?

[sudden elk]

in which library?

[quasi narwhal]

PyQt5 or tkinker

[sudden elk]

import tkinter
from tkinter import *

class App(tkinter.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        super().__init__(master)
        self.pack()

root = tkinter.Tk()
myapp = App(root)
myapp.master.title("app")
myapp.master.minsize(500,400)
myapp.mainloop()

example window

[quasi narwhal]

Would it be possible to make this gui in PyQt5 or tkinker

[sudden elk]

yep

as long as you can make a window with canvas yep

and canvas is supported in all (or almost) libraries

(brb)

[sleek hollow]

you can make pretty much anything in pyqt

[quasi narwhal]

I had already tried to facilitate this with such a tkdeshiner, but it did not work, it did not import the pngs and the corners were not rounded

[sleek hollow]

Rounded widgets are actually very tricky. Your best bet is to simply use an image that's just a plain rectangle with rounded corners, and then use it as a BG image

[quasi narwhal]

Why is it so complicated?

[sleek hollow]

because there's no native widgets that support rounded corners

you can create custom paint events in pyqt that will draw the widget with rounded corners

but that's a lot more involved

[quasi narwhal]

I wasted my whole day trying to use that

[sleek hollow]

You could also stylesheet a widget to round the corners

[quasi narwhal]

So can I create anything inside qt?

[sleek hollow]

How much experience do you have with qt?

[quasi narwhal]

Bro 0,01%

[sleek hollow]

This won't be easy then without at least a basic understanding of how pyqt works

[quasi narwhal]

My course will address this together with qt designer but I prefer to do it in code

[sleek hollow]

Yeah, I really don't recommend designer, especially for a beginner

I can do an example, one sec

[quasi narwhal]

Ok

[sleek hollow]

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtGui, QtCore


class RoundedWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):

    corner_radius = (32, 32)

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setSizePolicy(*[QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum] * 2)
        self.setAutoFillBackground(True)

    def paintEvent(self, evt):
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self)
        painter.setRenderHint(QtGui.QPainter.Antialiasing)
        path = QtGui.QPainterPath()
        rect = QtCore.QRectF(0, 0, evt.rect().width(), evt.rect().height())
        path.addRoundedRect(rect, *RoundedWidget.corner_radius)
        painter.fillPath(path, QtCore.Qt.green)
        painter.drawPath(path)

        painter.end()


class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QDialog):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        main_layout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self)
        for i in range(4):
            main_layout.addWidget(RoundedWidget(), i // 2, i % 2)
        self.setMinimumSize(400, 300)



app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
win = MainWindow()
win.show()
app.exec()

You can try testing this. It unfortunately won't really mean much without understanding pyqt basics (and this is pretty far from basic)

[quasi narwhal]

😳 Bro

That looks like code for a nuclear bomb to me.

And what does it do?

[sleek hollow]

This is mostly just to say "It unfortunately isn't simple to have widgets with rounded corners"

[quasi narwhal]

💀

[quasi narwhal]

It was hard enough to do even half of the antivirus backend

[sleek hollow]

The RoundedWidget class is a template that can be used for a widget with rounded corners

[quasi narwhal]

Is there a way to download widgets?

[sleek hollow]

if you can find the class for a widget that you want, you can just copy that class code if you want to use it

class RoundedWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):

    corner_radius = (32, 32)

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setSizePolicy(*[QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum] * 2)
        self.setAutoFillBackground(True)

    def paintEvent(self, evt):
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self)
        painter.setRenderHint(QtGui.QPainter.Antialiasing)
        path = QtGui.QPainterPath()
        rect = QtCore.QRectF(0, 0, evt.rect().width(), evt.rect().height())
        path.addRoundedRect(rect, *RoundedWidget.corner_radius)
        painter.fillPath(path, QtCore.Qt.green)
        painter.drawPath(path)

        painter.end()

this is the important bit of my example

the rest was just to demonstrate it in action

[quasi narwhal]

I'm going to get a part of my code with the interface

I've been trying to make these boxes round

[sleek hollow]

You can set it with a stylesheet

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtGui, QtCore


class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QDialog):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setMinimumSize(400, 300)
        main_layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
        textbox = QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit()
        textbox.setStyleSheet("border: 1px solid white; border-radius:16px; background-color: palette(base); ");
        main_layout.addWidget(textbox)
        self.setStyleSheet('background: #323232;')


app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
win = MainWindow()
win.show()
app.exec()

Just be warned it won't move the write cursor so it can look a bit weird

[quasi narwhal]

you write code so fast

[quasi narwhal]

if that makes no difference

[sleek hollow]

I work with pyqt daily 😉

[quasi narwhal]

and that's what I'm going to see in my course

[sleek hollow]

hard to really say what it's going to cover just from this

[quasi narwhal]

yes

at least something i'll learn

what do you do daily with pyqt5?

[sleek hollow]

I work in game dev and build tools for artists

[quasi narwhal]

would it be easy to make that interface you had ordered?

[sleek hollow]

which interface?

[sleek hollow]

There's nothing necessarily "complex" about it but it would still be a lot of work. It's "easy" in the sense that I have years of experience behind me

Looks more like a website though

almost better off building it as an HTML page and displaying it in pyqt

The hardest things about this is the rounded corners. With regular widgets, it could be done in like...an hour or two

[tight ice]

Doing what if I may ask

[quasi narwhal]

skull

[sleek hollow]

#user-interfaces message

[tight ice]

🤦‍♂️ sorry didn’t see that - what kind of game dev?

[sleek hollow]

All good! Not sure what you mean though?

"Video game" dev

[quasi narwhal]

being without a team for projects and sad

I will learn first and then do this I don't want to depend on AI

and learn english

[tight ice]

what kind of technologies? backend/frontend?

[sleek hollow]

It's not really split up like that. A game has a ton of files being passed around between artists/game team. We need to make sure files are formatted correctly, named correctly, and well organized. We don't expect artists to be able to do this so we create tools that they use to help with this

For example if an animator finishes an animation, they should be able to just click a single button and it will automatically create data containing the animation file, the duration, the character name, the animation name, who animated it, how many versions there has been, etc

[quasi narwhal]

Is it possible for me to create a python program that already does this, import the gui to my python pyqt5 program?

[noble forge]

i am having a problem running pygame

pls some one help

[quasi narwhal]

what problem are you having?

[noble forge]

sry for replying late

ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pygame/base.cpython-310-darwin.so, 0x0002): tried: '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pygame/base.cpython-310-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64e')), '/usr/lib/base.cpython-310-darwin.so' (no such file)

i am getting this error

i am using visual studio

[quasi narwhal]

Is your processor 32bit?

[noble forge]

mac

[quasi narwhal]

what model?

[noble forge]

Macbook pro 2022 model

[quasi narwhal]

ok, wait

source venv/bin/activate
pip install pygame
```Have you tried using a virtual environment?

[quasi narwhal]

.

[noble forge]

One min

[noble forge]

Thnx it worked

[quasi narwhal]

ok

[sleek hollow]

Does what? Generally the UI layout and the actual thing that it does should be separate.

[quasi narwhal]

tkdeshiner is only improved

[sleek hollow]

?

[quasi narwhal]

wait

[quasi narwhal]

https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Tkinter-Designer

This is what I tried and the result:

[sleek hollow]

I've never really used tkinter-designer so I'm not really sure how the resulting code might look

[quasi narwhal]

yes te code is skull

[sleek hollow]

I really try and avoid any "GUI designer" programs. It's much better to understand the underlying code so you can create whatever you want

[quasi narwhal]

I tried several and the same result

[sleek hollow]

If you're new to GUI, I would start small

Just do a simple UI with a simple layout to understand it. You have to walk before you can run

[quasi narwhal]

and what they told me 2 years ago "never use your right hand without knowing how to use your left"

[sleek hollow]

That's an odd expression. I personally think it's better to develop a strong understanding of an area before diving too deep

[quasi narwhal]

yes

[tight ice]

Is this what you're building?

This technology

[sleek hollow]

Yes. It's called a "Game pipeline"

[steady ginkgo]

I want to have all tile borders same sized. Any idea how to do that without manually counting and adding spaces to each tile?

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

Label(text="x", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=0, column=0)
Label(text="xy", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=0, column=1)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=0, column=2)
Label(text="xy", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=1, column=0)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=1, column=1)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=1, column=2)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=2, column=0)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=2, column=1)
Label(text="123", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",50)).grid(row=2, column=2)

window.mainloop()```

[mint grove]

I think using expand=True in a frame if ur using

[warped shuttle]

Hi any idea on how i can create something like that im using tkinter

[woven wren]

you can try using comboboxes and entries

[woven wren]

maybe you can try columspan() and rowspan()??

[sleek hollow]

with grid, you need to use the sticky argument

[woven wren]

hi

lets say i have a Int value in an entry

how would i add it to another value in the same entry

so like the first entry is 1... i press + and now i want to type a new number to add

how would i do that ;-;

like... add it to a future entry

oh shit i got it

im so smart

[proven basin]

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[restive fiber]

So uh... How to start UI using python?

I mean

What lib do you recommend?

[hexed horizon]

[woven wren]

i love gui

[mint grove]

I just created this simple login page

[woven wren]

:0

thats cool

[pastel lotus]

I create an interface for an automation tool I created earlier. When I start the tool through my interface, the interface crashes because I'm not writing a seperate thread for the automation tool. Any tips for this? I did some googling and it tells me to just create a thread for the automation tool, but it can't be that simple right? Any tips for this? Before I start

Like should I write a new thread for the interface, or write a new thread for the tool. Or does that not matter?

[sleek hollow]

It kinda depends. What's the automation tool automating?

[pastel lotus]

Something that can take seconds, but also minutes.

So I probably do need a thread for that

[sleek hollow]

Yeah, since GUI is blocking event loop, any other process started on that same thread will lock up the GUI

ideally you would start the GUI first, then use the GUI to start whatever automation process it is on a separate thread (that way you can still use the GUI if needed)

but without more details about what you're trying to do exactly, that's about as much as I can offer

[pastel lotus]

I'm writing a simple tool that can scrape specific text from websites. That proces can take up a long time. Eventually I want to display data about the proces. Like the percentage of scraping completed, and something like a timer, and adding more analytical stuff.

So would I just be able to write 1 thread for the interface, and 1 thread for all the other stuff I mentioned

Or will I end up needing more threads

[sleek hollow]

one for the GUI, one for the scraping. I'm not certain about how the scraping integrates and updates the GUI though. It will be specific to whatever process you're using to scrape

and also which GUI library you're using

[pastel lotus]

I'm using TKinter

Startscrape = threading.Thread(target=ScrapeModule.Start())

startbutton = tk.Button(self ,text = "Start", font=('Bold',8),  width = 5, height = 0, command=lambda: Startscrape.start())
startbutton.pack(padx = 0, pady= 0, expand=False)
startbutton.place(x = 40, y = 260)

This is how I've set it up currently

I also want to pause and resume a thread. Looks like I have to use flag for that which I'll try now.

[sleek hollow]

I'm not sure about threading + tkinter unfortunately. I've only handled threading (and even still, very little) with pyqt

it has a special built QThread class that can handle it specifically to work with pyqt gui

[pastel lotus]

Well, wish I knew that before I wrote the entire interface with TKinter

It's fine though lol I'll figure it uot

[inland wedge]

( gtk) or ( qt using pyside)

[inland wedge]

both use css for theming

close to default gtk program: https://news.tuxmachines.org/i/2022/09/04-editor.png
close to default qt program: https://bablupc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/qtcreator_demo-1024x582.png

[sudden elk]

why im getting that error?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hacknorris/Muzyka/game/main.py", line 73, in <module>
    myapp = App(root)
  File "/home/hacknorris/Muzyka/game/main.py", line 35, in __init__
    scr1.config(yscrollcommand = left.yview)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1485, in configure
    return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1476, in _configure
    self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: unknown option "-yscrollcommand"

code:

        fr1 = tkinter.Frame(master).pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH, expand=1)
        left = tkinter.Listbox(fr1, bg=config.get('default','frame_color'))
        left.pack(side = LEFT, fill=BOTH, expand = 1)
        left.pack_propagate(0)
        scr1 = tkinter.Scrollbar(left, orient="vertical", command=left.yview)
        scr1.config(yscrollcommand = left.yview)
        scr1.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y)
        left.config(yscrollcommand = scr1.set)

nvm. fixed

forgor scrollbar have different prarmeter 🤦‍♀️

(although still scrolling doesnt work…)

anyway - i think i will leave this project, i have enough of tk already…

[dire oyster]

Do we have to disable the default title bar if we want to implement a custom title bar?

[dark goblet]

hey

i need a front end for my project

[tribal path]

There's many to choose from

[hoary canopy]

Im working on an inventory system, specifically based currently. Can i get some feedback on the current layout im working on? The green area with black lines will be a table.

[raw drum]

I wanted to make a simple password manager app as my first project in python.

Finished a good part of it but I was using subprocess.popen to switch between modules and it felt pretty slow and annoying since the app was jumping all over the screen. I rewrote the program using frames for modules but now the entire GUI is terrible and I cannot seem to edit it's size/location.

I tried frame.pack(expand=True) but for some reason it just centers it
I tried to use frame.pack(fill='y') , and it removed the empty space but didn't allow me to extend the sidebar
i tried frame.configure(width=600, height=400) , but it doesn't change nothing

Can anyone point me in the right direction, or at least give me an idea? I guess i'm looking for a way to make the frame stick to the app border or at least be 600x400

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RI7A

[pastel lotus]

I might be asking a dumb question so be prepared. https://nicegui.io/ uses the webbrowser to build a GUI. For my app I need to perform actions on the local PC of the user like write files, edit files, save files. Would I still be able to do that using https://nicegui.io/ ? I'm not sure because it's in the webbrowser, I don't know if it can. Also wonder if I am dependent of an internet connection if I use it

I am in fact creating a desktop app, instead of a web app.

[chilly rock]

hey guys so im making a custom titlebar for my PyQt app and im using the native win32 api for the resize dragging etc... handlers

the thing is i want when i maximize the window and drag it the window gets restored to its normal size and moved to the cursor with an X and Y offset thats based on where the user started dragging on the window so if the user started dragging from the titlebar label when the user is dragging the the window should be moved with some Y and X offset for the cursor to be above the label

so what i did was

# on the event win32con.WM_MOVE

QCURSORPOS = QCursor.pos()

self.setGeometry(QCURSORPOS.x(),QCURSORPOS.y(),self.oldGeomtry.width(),self.oldGeomtry.height())

how can i possibly calculate that offset to simulate the same windows behave

[viral stream]

Hi all, I got a Phyton book from a colleague and wanted to start programming. I have done a bit of work but I can't get the white border to disappear or turn black. Can anyone help me ?

[frail creek]

anyone here used custom tkinter? im having trouble creating layouts
im new to this, but i've worked in web development and was hoping to do similar styling using flex, but seems like its different here....
I just need a slight example as guidance, what ium trying to do is
In the winbdow this is how the UI goes
Left side and right side of the screen has a button taking full vertical space. And in between the button is an area which has an image and under that image there is a label. and both this image and label will be centered horizontally and vertically even if the window is resized.

can someone correct my code

import tkinter as tk
import customtkinter as ctk
from pystray import MenuItem as item
import pystray
from PIL import Image

# system settings
ctk.set_appearance_mode("dark")
ctk.set_default_color_theme("blue")

root=ctk.CTk()
root.geometry("700x350")

frame = ctk.CTkFrame(master=root, bg_color='black')

# Create label to display text and image/gif
listening_image = tk.PhotoImage(master=frame, file="./assets/email.png", width=50, height=50, ) 
stopped_image = tk.PhotoImage(master=frame, file="./assets/no-internet.png", width=50, height=50)      # Replace with your image or GIF
label = tk.Label(frame, text="Started")
label.pack(fill='both')

# Add the start and stop buttons to the frame
button1 = ctk.CTkButton(master=frame, text="Start Process", command=start_button_function, fg_color='green', hover_color='grey')
button2 = ctk.CTkButton(master=frame, text="Stop Process", command=stop_button_function, fg_color='red', hover_color='grey')

# Pack the buttons in the frame in different columns
button1.pack(fill='both')
frame.pack(fill='both')
button2.pack(fill='both')

# Pack the frame in the main window

# Set the weights of the rows so that all 3 widgets take up the full vertical space
root.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)

# Function to keep the script running
def run_gui():
    root.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', hide_window)
    root.mainloop()

run_gui()

[hexed horizon]

try using a while True: loop

while True:
  height = root.winfo_screenheight()
  button1.config(height=height)

[pastel lotus]

Maybe try this?

label_frame = tk.Frame(root)
label_frame.pack()
label_frame.configure(bg="black")

This way you're changing the background after you initialized the frame. You probably can make it black as soon as you initialize it somehow like
label_frame = tk.Frame(root, bg="black")

But I can't test it if you don't send me the code

with sending the code I mean send it in text, not an image

[viral stream]

how i copy the code here in phyton ?

[pastel lotus]

@viral stream Use three of these on each side of your code: `
like this:

You can also do specific parts withtin a sentence with one like this

[viral stream]

from tkinter import ttk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("GUI")
root.geometry("200x320")
root.configure(bg="black")

label_Motor = tk.Label(root, text="Motor", font=["Helvetica", 16, "bold"], fg="white", bg="black")
label_Motor.pack(side="top")

#Linie unterhalb des Motor-Labels
line = tk.ttk.Separator(root, orient="horizontal")
line.pack(fill=tk.X, pady=5)


label_frame = tk.Frame(root)
label_frame.pack()

label_ÖLTEMP = tk.Label(label_frame, text="ÖLTEMP", font=("Helvetica", 10, "bold"), fg="white", bg="black")
label_ÖLTEMP.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

label_ÖLDRUCK = tk.Label(label_frame, text="ÖLDRUCK", font=("Helvetica", 10, "bold"), fg="white", bg="black")
label_ÖLDRUCK.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

root.mainloop() ```

[pastel lotus]

This works

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("GUI")
root.geometry("200x320")
root.configure(bg="black")

label_Motor = tk.Label(root, text="Motor", font=["Helvetica", 16, "bold"], fg="white", bg="black")
label_Motor.pack(side="top")

#Linie unterhalb des Motor-Labels
line = tk.ttk.Separator(root, orient="horizontal")
line.pack(fill=tk.X, pady=5)

label_frame = tk.Frame(root, bg="black")
label_frame.pack()

label_ÖLTEMP = tk.Label(label_frame, text="ÖLTEMP", font=("Helvetica", 10, "bold"), fg="white", bg="black")
label_ÖLTEMP.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=10, pady=10)

label_ÖLDRUCK = tk.Label(label_frame, text="ÖLDRUCK", font=("Helvetica", 10, "bold"), fg="white", bg="black")
label_ÖLDRUCK.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=10, pady=10)

root.mainloop() 

[viral stream]

thanks ❤️

[pastel lotus]

Just changed label_frame = tk.Frame(root) to label_frame = tk.Frame(root, bg="black")

[viral stream]

Is it difficult to add a second or more pages ?

[pastel lotus]

Depends on your skill

You would need to make multiple frames. Then make a function that switches frames when a button is clicked.

Like this

import tkinter as tk

# Create a function to switch pages
def show_page(page):
    page.tkraise()

# Create the main tkinter window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Page Switching Example")

# Create a container frame to hold all pages
container = tk.Frame(root)
container.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

# Create Page 1
page1 = tk.Frame(container)
label1 = tk.Label(page1, text="Page 1")
button_to_page2 = tk.Button(page1, text="Go to Page 2", command=lambda: show_page(page2))
label1.pack(pady=10)
button_to_page2.pack()

# Create Page 2
page2 = tk.Frame(container)
label2 = tk.Label(page2, text="Page 2")
button_to_page1 = tk.Button(page2, text="Go to Page 1", command=lambda: show_page(page1))
label2.pack(pady=10)
button_to_page1.pack()

# Pack all pages into the container frame
for page in (page1, page2):
    page.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="nsew")

# Show Page 1 initially
show_page(page1)

# Start the tkinter main loop
root.mainloop()

[pastel lotus]

You can paste this in a new file, run it, and you'll see an example.

I made this code with chatGPT by the way

I highly suggest chatGPT if you want answer on easy questions like that

[viral stream]

try

[keen tartan]

What is the fastest way to start learning python? I'm new to it and struggled with my 1st project.

[delicate hearth]

How do you tell a Pyside6 widget to redraw or something? this keeps happening and I dunno how to stop it. only one widget is there, but multiple widgets have occupied that space

.

Here's the list class: ```py
class FlowList(QGroupBox): # TODO: Better name lmao
def init(self):
super().init()
self._layout = QGridLayout()
self.setLayout(self._layout)
self.scrollarea = QScrollArea(self)
self.scrollwidget = QWidget(self)
self.box = QVBoxLayout(self.scrollwidget)
self.scrollwidget.setLayout(self.box)
self.scrollwidget.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Minimum, QSizePolicy.Maximum) # type: ignore

    self.scrollarea.setWidgetResizable(True)
    self.scrollarea.setWidget(self.scrollwidget)
    self.addbox = QToolButton(self)
    self.addbox.setText("+")
    self.addbox.setPopupMode(QToolButton.InstantPopup)  # type: ignore
    self.addmenu = QMenu(self)
    self.addbox.setMenu(self.addmenu)

    self._layout.addWidget(self.addbox, 0, 0)
    self._layout.addWidget(self.scrollarea, 1, 0)

def register_item(self, item: type[FlowItem]):
    self.addmenu.addAction(item.title, lambda: self.initialize_item(item))

def initialize_item(self, item: type[FlowItem]):
    instance = item(self)
    self.add_item(instance)
    instance.closebutton.clicked.connect(lambda: self.box.removeWidget(instance))

def register_items(self, *items: type[FlowItem]):
    for item in items:
        self.register_item(item)

def add_item(self, item: FlowItem):
    self.box.addWidget(item)

def remove_item(self, item: FlowItem):
    self.box.removeWidget(item)

[delicate hearth]

Nvm. My solution was to resize it to 0, 0, 0, 0 and then hide it

[chilly rock]

its not in the web browser its just making a web server for the gui to be rendered in the web browser but performing actions on the local pc is ofc can be done if the client is the same who is hosting the nicegui server but not if u deployed it as it will only happen in ur server not the client side

[chilly rock]

anyone willing to help?

[light vault]

Anyone has experience with PyGObject here? How would you compare to PyQT in terms of resources available and ease of integration/use?

[light vault]

I'd say start with interactive sessions where you do short lessons as you learn new concepts. With that, you should be able to pick up on the fundamentals like control flow, classes, data types etc. You can then proceed to building pet projects, with the official python docs to support.

[hoary canopy]

I have two files, menu_gui.py and menu_commands.py. I need to enable and disable entries in menu_gui.py using menu_commands.py but also need to call menu_commands.py functions using buttons in menu_gui.py. How can i do this without creating a circular import? Do i just pass all the entries (I have 14-15 entries). Im using tkinter.

[inland wedge]

i use pygobject a lot

resources available as in learning resources, library availablity or both?

also integration into what?

with gobject libraries, the c documentation is
the bindings for all other programming system-s like python are generated from the c library
so one can use the c documentation, there are also subtle differences, for autocomplete one can install:
https://pypi.org/project/PyGObject-stubs/

[keen tartan]

I'm in college for it, I'm about to just watch some videos.

[light vault]

learning resources mostly. Pygobject is already useful I guess

[light vault]

Use mostly. Integration just meant using it to create stuff

[light vault]

So do I need to look at the C documentation to understand what's going on?

Also, when working with pygobject, did you have to rely on IDEs like Builder (GNOME) or regular vs code?

[light vault]

While video tutorials aren't bad, try to also practice alongside them. Try to build demo projects on your own without the tutorials with the concepts you've learned. That way, you don't fall into the tutorial hell

[inland wedge]

ok so yeah the main documentation is all for c but since gobject-c is object oriented, the api are almost always the same as in python so i use that,
you can use

• the websites: https://docs.gtk.org/
  the typical documentation page is like this: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.Box.html
• this is sort of like a hub for gnome devs: https://developer.gnome.org/
• then the pygobject docs for anything python specific: https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
• i also use a program called devhelp which has all the gnome docs: https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/Devhelp/ ( probably a pain to get working on non-linux systems)

[inland wedge]

i use pylsp with helix editor along with the pygobject typing stubs: https://pypi.org/project/PyGObject-stubs/
and then i have devhelp in the next workspace for reference

one thing to keep in mind is that one should always use the new classmethod when instanciating gobject object-s instead of using __init__

[inland wedge]

you could use with vscode, to get completion just install the stubs mentioned in the link and completion should start working

if one ever runs into issues with gobject then the matrix channel: https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/Matrix
is always active with gnome devs although one should probs only bother devs if the question isnt solved anywhere on the internet
the source code is all public and visible on: https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups

[light vault]

Woah! This is a load of information. Thanks a lot :)

[light vault]

I thought C isn't object-oriented? Also, basically you're saying knowledge of C is important to be any productive with the pygobject library?

[inland wedge]

no you dont need to know c, a little knowledge may come in useful but is not nescessary
gobject is a system built using c which allows for object oriented programming,
it allows one to create classes in c with inheritance and interfaces
it has a bunch of other features and has its own standard library called GLib

gobject can be used in languages which are not c as well
an old list is this one: https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users.html
the bindings are generated for the other languages ( either automatically or manually) and then these languages call the base compiled library
this base library is written in object oriented c ( using gobject)

so in python if you write:

from gi.repository import Gtk
b= Gtk.Button.new_with_label( "HI")

You are calling c code, the same can be done from javascript, c++, rust, even haskell ( although i dont know if haskell~s bindings are usable)

the haskell binding-s project looks active: https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi

[light vault]

Looks good then. Object-oriented C in this case still uses C language features like structs and (struct) inheritance under the hood I guess. I'm concerned because while looking at the official gtk documentation, I can see "class" and "implements" keywords, and I know those are not valid C keywords.

[inland wedge]

oh yeah, so they still use structs sometimes
an example is this: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/struct.ScrollInfo.html
in python, you can instanciate a struct using: StructName()

[light vault]

Okay, that's cool

I had to go look at my project and I already have PyGObject-stubs installed but I still don't get completions

Gtk and Gio classes don't provide any method completion for instance

You can see it's white

I only get completions for the top-level gi package, as you can see with the require_version function

[inland wedge]

im not sure how to fix that im afraid

[light vault]

So in your case, when you install pygobject, without any extra configs, you begin to get completions for the Gtk and Gio classes?

So after some tinkering with vs code, I'm getting completions now

Only that there's the little error from pylance: "Import "gi.repository.Gtk" could not be resolved from source"

I should be able to mostly ignore since it doesn't really affect the completions

One last question: for moderately complex applications (say a Reddit client), can I depend solely on gtk widgets, or I'd need to create my own custom UI with XML?

[inland wedge]

ah hi so i think the bindings are dynamic so that error may be present, perhaps there is a solution online,
on the custom widgets question:
one can use purely code to create the ui,
one can use xml to describe the ui and then load that xml description in code, however the widgets created in xml are the same as those created using code,
one can also use a new approach called blueprints which is similar to the xml one but with a different syntax

there is also an additional widgets library called libadwaita which contains some nice modern widgets: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1-latest/
it has some widgets and a different look:

there are also demo programs for gtk4 and libadwaita which show off available widgets with examples

[light vault]

thank you

[light vault]

Will look into this

[shell crystal]

So I am currently making a Unix like shell with Python and I wanted to know if the welcome screen looks good. Feel free to suggest improvements!

[pastel lotus]

I think it would look better with a picture of a cute golden retriever in the middle, but with low opacity

[pastel lotus]

Just my taste though

Who said programmers can't make an UI

[shell crystal]

silly little doggo

[pastel lotus]

I would use your shell 4 sure

[steady ginkgo]

PROBLEM WITH PERFORMANCE

Hi, I have this program, but the problem is that it is VERY LAGGING. It takes up to one minute to open the GUI window and the values in tiles are updating very slowly. The app sometimes laggs that much, that the windows loading cursor appears. When I try to move the app window, it is very laggy. But when I try to move some other window on my PC while the app is open, it is smooth and PC is not lagging. Just the app lags. Any idea how to fix the lags?

Btw this is my first program so any advice or recommendations for my improvement would be appreciated.

Code:

from tkinter import *
from time import *
from binance import Client, ThreadedWebsocketManager, ThreadedDepthCacheManager

client = Client("mytoken1", "mytoken2")


def update():
    for index, price_prev in enumerate(prices):
        price_now = float(client.get_symbol_ticker(symbol=pairs[index])['price'])

        if price_now > float(prices[index].cget("text")):
            prices[index].config(text=price_now, fg="lime")
            if str(usdt_balance) != "0":
                amount[index].config(text=round((usdt_balance /price_now), 6), fg="lime")
        elif price_now < float(prices[index].cget("text")):
            prices[index].config(text=price_now, fg="red")
            if str(usdt_balance) != "0":
                amount[index].config(text=round((usdt_balance /price_now), 6), fg="red")

    window.after(1000,update)

global usdt_balance
usdt_balance = 0
def usdt_balance_click():
    global  usdt_balance
    usdt_balance = int(entry.get())

window = Tk()
window.title("Ten program co dělám")

Label(text="PAIR", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",20), width=15).grid(row=1, column=0)
Label(text="PRICE", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",20), width=15).grid(row=1, column=1)
Label(text="AMOUNT", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",20), width=15).grid(row=1, column=2)
Label(text="USDT BAL =>", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",20), width=15).grid(row=0, column=0)
entry = Entry(window, borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",20), width=16, justify="center")
entry.grid(row=0, column=1)
button = Button(window, text="<= CONFIRM", borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial",14), width=21, command=usdt_balance_click)
button.grid(row=0, column=2)

pairs = ["BTCUSDT", "ETHUSDT", "ADAUSDT", "DOTUSDT", "UNIUSDT", "NEARUSDT", "MATICUSDT", "MKRUSDT", "OGNUSDT", "OPUSDT", "SNXUSDT", "WOOUSDT", "XTZUSDT", "ATOMUSDT", "CRVUSDT", "LDOUSDT"]
global prices
prices = []
global amount
amount = []

for index, pair in enumerate(pairs):
    price = float(client.get_symbol_ticker(symbol=pair)['price'])
    price = "{:.2f}".format(price)

    Label(window, text=pair, borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial", 20), width=15).grid(row=index+2, column=0)

    l1 = Label(window, text=price, borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial", 20), width=15)
    l1.grid(row=index+2, column=1)
    prices.append(l1)

    l2 = Label(window, text=0, borderwidth=2, relief="solid", font=("Arial", 20), width=15)
    l2.grid(row=index+2, column=2)
    amount.append(l2)

update()
window.mainloop()```

[stray cloak]

hey, i'm very new to tkinter and am having some trouble creating a calculator i have to do for a school assignment. i have completed the GUI itself, but unsure how to retrieve the input and display it, when a button is pressed. can someone help?

[hoary canopy]

You can update labels via .configure(text=“”). Assign function to buttons using command=

[stray cloak]

hre is my codeL:

import tkinter as tk

win = tk.Tk()

def on_cal_click(event):
print(result["text"])
# OPTIONAL:
# CALCULATE THE RESULT
...

def on_btn_click(event):
# COMPLETE THE LINE BELOW
# Display the input
input = result.get()

text field

result = tk.Label(master=win, text = '')
result.grid(row=0, columnspan=4)

numpad

for i in range(3):
for j in range(3):
# COMPLETE THE LINE BELOW
# Create a button with the right text on it
btn = tk.Button(master = win, text = (i * 3) + (j +1), width = 5)
btn.grid(row=i+1, column=j)
btn.bind("<Button-1>", on_btn_click)

btn = tk.Button(master = win, text = 0, width = 15)
btn.grid(row=4, column=0, columnspan=2)
btn.bind("<Button-1>", on_btn_click)

btn = tk.Button(master=win, text='=', width=5)
btn.grid(row=4, column=2)
btn.bind("<Button-1>", on_cal_click)

operators

op = ['/', 'x', '-', '+']
for i in range(4):
# COMPLETE THE LINE BELOW
# Create a button with the right text on it
btn = tk.Button(win, text=op[i], width=5)
btn.grid(row=i+1, column=4)
btn.bind("<Button-1>", on_btn_click)

win.mainloop()

i have to complete def on_btn_click

[hoary canopy]

Does it have to be in that exact format?

[stray cloak]

yeah :/

so confusing, and the lecture they gave for it this week was only like 30mins.

[hoary canopy]

Im not familiar with using events in tkinter. I typically just assign my functions as commands. Look at line 138 for an example of what I mean by command https://github.com/msrogers2015/Wordle/blob/main/main.py

[stray cloak]

i'll have a look, and i'm sure you way is far easier. unfortunately, my course is very anal about how they want me to code - if they haven't shown me it, i can't use it.

@hoary canopy

[hoary canopy]

Gotcha. Yeah I haven’t learned event handling in tkinter, I’m self taught. I just started using the protocols in my current project.

[stray cloak]

that's all good, thank you anyways my man!

[turbid river]

8

I am using PySide to make the user interface. I have set up a tab widget, and I want to trigger the event at such a time when a specific tab is selected. In other words, for example, I have tab A and tab B, and I want to execute the function every time user is switching from tab A to tab B.

QTabWidget have a currentIndex() that returns the index of current tab. So it should be that I find.

My question is because I'm not finding how set an event listener at time the user is clicking each tab, to get then the tab index.

Any help would be appreciate. Thanks!

[sleek hollow]

QTabWidget has a signal called currentChanged that you can connect to (it even passes the newly selected tab's index as an argument)

[turbid river]

It works pretty fine. Thank you!

[hoary canopy]

Anyone familiar with tkk?

[lunar portal]

im trying to create a singup page for my project and my code was running fine but now its showing this error idk why pls help

here is the error

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/OHNA

here is the code

[hoary canopy]

Is your image in the same folder as signup.py?

[lunar portal]

yes

tho why is it showing a attribute error

i have a similar program which is login and that works fine

[tribal path]

And the image is called bg.png?

[viral stream]

how i can add this bar in my gui ? for switch between the pages ?

[viral stream]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/YO6A

can someone help me do not get it as in the picture above to make it

[hoary canopy]

Looks like a menu seperator. https://github.com/msrogers2015/Just-Enough-Git/blob/main/commands/gui.py It's been a while since i worked on this project but iirc the menu function creates a similar menu with seperation for the git commands I included. The tk.Menu creates the different menus (so for you Action and Views) and the add_command adds the drop down to the menu and the ad_seperator adds a line grouping commands.

[viral stream]

thank you for answering me, I am completely at the beginning with the programming and I do not check what I need there ^^ can you villt tell me how it is called so I can google ?

[hoary canopy]

tkinter menu or tk.Menu. check out my code, the menu function is exactly what you need.

[steel island]

I got a really dumb question, but how can I make a bordered and numbered grid in Python? Do I have to implement a certain function or something?

Everything I'm doing just makes a grid that consists of - - - - as the borders

Also, I'm trying to make it an output, not so much a user interface within itself

[sour fable]

Pls anyone with interest in python guizero library??

[viral stream]

got it working somehow with the help of chatgpt but it spits out errors that chatgpt can't handle

[hoary canopy]

What’s the error message?

[viral stream]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Marce\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter_init_.py", line 1892, in call
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\Marce\PycharmProjects\pythonProject11\main.py", line 57, in show_motor
self.main_notebook.select(0) # Index 0 für die Registerkarte "Motor"
File "C:\Users\Marce\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\ttk.py", line 885, in select
return self.tk.call(self._w, "select", tab_id)
_tkinter.TclError: Slave index 0 out of bounds

Process finished with exit code 0

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/NSVA

[hoary canopy]

I’m not familiar with ttk notebook but there’s an issue with selecting something from it.

[viral stream]

is there a way that the run in pycharm is always updated automatically without pressing a button ?

always annoying to press ctrl f10

[hoary canopy]

I think it had a play button that works if you open your project as a workspace or something.

[viral stream]

you don't happen to know where it is ? ^^

[hoary canopy]

No, I haven’t used pycharm in years. My main IDE is VS Code.

[viral stream]

ah ok

[viral stream]

is there a way to have all labels vertically on one level without moving each one individually with padx / pady

[hoary canopy]

You can use place() to get pixel perfect accuracy. Only issue is without a visual editor it’s kinda sucks. I use Clickteam to get my values.

[viral stream]

have tried to make it with place but somehow fits there nix

[hoary canopy]

Just use x and y, not relx and rely. Adjust the height and width using height and width.

[viral stream]

ok

now the pixel in the middle is not visible and everything is black

[hoary canopy]

Look at the start_game function https://github.com/msrogers2015/Wordle/blob/main/main.py

Specially line 53

[viral stream]

thank you it helped and everything worked ❤️

how can i add another font ? the first one on the page digital-7 https://www.1001fonts.com/digital+clock-fonts.html

[hoary canopy]

You’d have to install the font but yeah. Make a font variable like py self.label_font = (“Times”, 18) so you don’t have to update multiple lines.

[hoary canopy]

Replace times with the font name you want. You’ll also have to install the font on all devices running the code.

[lilac lily]

Looking for feedback on the ui of the music player portion of my discord bot. Without explaining do some/most of the buttons make sense as to what they do? All criticism welcome.

[cerulean schooner]

What's the green dot for? Why a red 'del' button in addition to a red 'trashcan' button? everything except the info button on the bottom line makes no sense, most media interfaces couple play and pause.

[warm compass]

does anyone how to make button backgrounds appear in macos for tkinter?

i kinda wanna see if there is any other way than using tkmacosx because i want to be able to run the same code on my windows pc

for reference this is the ui rn

the buttons should be blue too

[jade mauve]

hey guys, I'm tryna use PySimpleGUI and I want an Input text box to have default text but DISAPPEAR when I click on it. for example a text box with "Input your description here" and that original text will go away the moment you click it for editing, anyone know how to do this? the regulat default_text field on the Input box does not do that.

[lilac lily]

First, thank you for the feedback!

The green dot is for the bot to join, red dot is for the bot to leave.

DEL deletes a song from the queue (user inputs which position in the queue)

Trash can empties (deletes) the entire queue

The play/pause button is coupled, what you see is the bot current playing. The top row is the media interaction and that pause button turns into a play when the bot is paused/isn't playing.

At least the info button makes sense, pressing that will open a menu that explains all the buttons.

I did at one point have words instead of emojis but visually it looked a lot worse

[placid nebula]

Hi. How to call function in tkinter from command on button click from another file storing all the functions?

[sleek hollow]

import that module

command=some_module.function_name

[cerulean schooner]

Cool, the top 3 rows seem good, maby with the exception of the red/green dots, I thought the red dot was a 'record' button. Perhaps better to refactor so there is one join/leave button that displays depending the context, i.e show 'join' if bot is not a member else show 'leave'.

Assuming '+' adds a media, perhaps '-' in stead of 'DEL' to remove a media. Trashcan to clear all is good.
The first 3 on bottom row left are what's confusing for me, play +, plus info and play #, especially since the pause button on row1 will also play/pause. Perhaps a list icon to signify playlist operations as opposed to play methods like increase playback speed.

[hoary canopy]

Use the file that’s storing the functions to load the gui. Then you can use the config command to update the button and attach the function to it.

[hoary canopy]

I’d do it the other way around and import the gui into the command file. I recently ran into an issue where I needed information from the gui for the command and I would’ve had to pass 15 different variables to my fucntion.

[placid nebula]

Would You let me see an example?

[hoary canopy]

I’ll have to change my repo to public. Give me a second.

[placid nebula]

Well, no need just send me in pm part of that code which allows to use it in proper way

[hoary canopy]

No worries. It’s only private so my job doesn’t see it and steal it lmao.

https://github.com/msrogers2015/CIMS/tree/master/src

Besides, you’d need to see how it gets information from the main file and the folders. Check out functions/base_commands.py. I don’t have to go up a level when importing the gui because it’s grabbing the path from main.py which is already above both folders.

[sleek hollow]

I would never do it this way. The GUI is the driver of the calls

if the functions needed data from the GUI, then those functions need parameters that the GUI can pass to it

[hoary canopy]

That’s a LOT of parameters to pass is a command= line, at least for me.

[sleek hollow]

you don't pass it through command then

you build a handler function

[hoary canopy]

Welp. Too late at this point 😅

[sleek hollow]

import some_module

def on_click_handled():
    #Get data/arguments that you need from gui
    some_module.some_function(arg1, arg2, arg3)

button(command=on_click_handled)

you should keep GUI and functionality as separate as possible

ideally the other module could still run even without the GUI by calling its functions from a command line

[mortal pasture]

So I have this interface here as example, but does anyone know how to prevent customtkinter from adding a background color to every new Frame? like as you can see im trying to divide my main window 'frame', into some smaller frames so I can divide my interface into smaller grids to work with, but I dont like that it gives each frame a bit of a lighter background color

is there a way I can set the (background) color of frames to transparent, without making all its content/sub-widgets transparent?

[hoary canopy]

Im actually going to refactor my code like this because they will make testing easier now that I think about it. Thank you.

[lilac lily]

Reworked it so now there's a simplified/basic view that looks like this and still going to rework the "expanded" view with the extra buttons.

You're right though, the bottom row is a bit confusing, I'll try making some icons with a list character and see if they better represent what each button does.

[fringe sorrel]

Sorry for replying really late. But I managed to solve the problem

1. Updated tkinter
2. Used the terminal instead of the run button in the IDE

[spare plank]

how do i reduce space between input boxes

[hexed horizon]

ok you didn't have to ping me it was 3 weeks ago but cool

[spring jacinth]

Can anyone explain why "bimage.jpg" does not work as file location? It is in the same folder as the python file

This is the error I keep getting

[mighty rock]

The supported image types are PGM, PPM, GIF, PNG

It isn't saying it doesn't work as a file location, it says it can't recognize the data within it

[spare plank]

can sm1 tell me y i am getting this error

[hoary canopy]

My go to will always be .place() lmao

[lilac lily]

I've updated it a bit if you'd be willing to give me more feedback

"simple view" just omits the bottom 2 rows

[daring vine]

If you are looking for some great interactivity in a terminal session utility (like over SSH), check out #textual. Here are side-by-side views of a log file merger that reads multiple log files for the same time period, and then creates a side-by-side merge of them by timestamp. The first is just pretty tabular ASCII output. The second is a screenshot from an SSH session with spreadsheet-like navigation, including mouse and scroll-wheel support, row highlighting, and non-scrolling header row and timestamp column (helpful if merging more than 2 log files, or very wide log files). Repo: https://github.com/ptmcg/log_merger Install using pip install log_merger The TUI-ization of the tabular display took about 60 lines of code, mostly because I took control of my own text wrapping within the cells of the textual DataTable.

[cerulean schooner]

What are the left and right arrows on the bottom row for?

[mighty rock]

I think you meant to use Photo, not Background. Also, you need to keep a reference to the image or else it is garbage-collected

[lilac lily]

To navigate the pages of the queue. The magnifying glass icon is to go to a specific page. I was thinking about making a "PREV PAGE" emoji but I feel like it'd be too cluttered with words.

[spring jacinth]

thanks

it works now

[woeful tusk]

Hello, I want to create a website like https://peggygou.com/ (the animation & musical components). Python is my primary language, though I have experience in others. How should I embark on this? Any advice would be tremendously appreciated.

[digital rose]

yooo

im the tkinter MASTER

[unkempt yacht]

Is there any PyQT group here?

[sleek hollow]

Not specifically, but if you have any questions about pyqt you can ask it here

[digital rose]

i have a question about pyqt

i heard its cross platform

isnt any python script cross platform?

[tribal path]

Qt itself isn't python, it's c++

[sleek hollow]

It means the UI configuration is identical across all OS. If you build something in tkinter on windows, it's not likely to look the same on linux or macos

[digital rose]

ohhhh

[digital rose]

i didnt know that, thanks

[sleek hollow]

Yeah, PyQt (and PySide) are "wrappers" for the c++ code that allow python to make use of it

[digital rose]

so thats what a wrapper is?

making a library compatible with another language?

[sleek hollow]

yeah, there's basically some "middleman" code that handles all the "c++ to python" chatter that you don't need to concern yourself with

[sleek hollow]

it doesn't necessarily have to be another language

Do you know what an API is?

[digital rose]

yeah

[sleek hollow]

it's basically an API, but an API typically has the user as the end target

the wrapper handles all the nitty gritty so you don't have to

(which is also pretty much what an API is)

[digital rose]

thanks, i also have another question

im currently learning tkinter and im pretty deep into the whole thing

should i do pyqt after im done?

[sleek hollow]

Entirely up to you. What are your goals? Are you familiar with OOP/classes at all?

[digital rose]

yeah

my goal is to learn a few useful libraries

and make some cool stuff with them

currenlty i wanna do gui

[sleek hollow]

pyqt is far more powerful than tkinter, but a bit of a steep learning curve

there's also an insane amount of content in pyqt. I've been using it for a few years and I'm still constantly learning new features with it

[digital rose]

this is exciting

i think ill try it after a while haha

thanks 🙏

[sleek hollow]

Good luck!

[digital rose]

im making an app for a school project rn, if anyone is good with tkinter and mysql i just have a small question on how i can transfer text input from tkinter textboxes to a mysql table

[ancient heron]

whatsup

im fairly good with tkinter and using different themes with it

[ancient heron]

where do i even start tho its nowhere near as simple and easy as tkinter and from what ive seen it doesnt even look better

[untold jacinth]

learn pyside

im enjoying it so far

i use to use tkinter or ctk

ortkbootstrap because of themes

[ancient heron]

could you send me a screenshot of what sorta ui pyside has

[ancient heron]

i use tkinter with ttk themes

[untold jacinth]

im transitioning from tkinter to pyside but im going though some demo projects

[ancient heron]

nice

this my nicest looking thing using tkinter

i think it looks quite modern for a tkinter project 🤣

[untold jacinth]

decent

i think the tabs and stuff are nice

i mean a real simple tk app

[ancient heron]

yeah thats mainly what i like

[ancient heron]

tbh i think they just look quite old and hard to look at

python just isnt the best language for guis

[untold jacinth]

agree

im busy but im trya show u a defualt demo

app

[ancient heron]

aw its ok you dont have to

[untold jacinth]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX8fY8uFgzb4&psig=AOvVaw3MeBD-Trk-wZV9nVWC9DEQ&ust=1694633928366000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCJCb07zppYEDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

i like pyside

cuz f designer

[ancient heron]

that does look pretty sick but im assuming its hundreds of lines of code just for that 🤣

tbh i wanna learn that its like a cpp project it looks that good

[untold jacinth]

Qt designer drags n drop ui

just plug in code later

havent got to it yet

but it seems that how it works

[ancient heron]

hm alright i will try learn that

[untold jacinth]

aight peace man ttyl

[ancient heron]

just awkward to learn new things rn cos ive got my gcses to study for

[untold jacinth]

if we meet again : >

dayum work

[ancient heron]

yeahh cya later

[digital rose]

im trying to get input in a textbox

basically the idea is

theres a menu with food items

and the user can enter a certain quantity they want of each food

and this is connected to a mysql table w the menu

i need the user input to transfer to the table of the menu i have in mysql

[untold jacinth]

a gif of the dial

from pyside6

[sleek hollow]

just like tkinter, vanilla pyqt doesn't necessarily "look" better. There's way more widgets available, and you have far more control over every single aspect of them. You can override the "paint event" of any widget to create a 100% custom feature

[proven path]

Is it normal that some tkinter widgets appear when i run the code from the actual python file but then they don't when i compile them to .exe?

Using pyinstaller

[digital rose]

i dont think thats normal

[proven path]

Yeah but why wouldn't it work

I'm using a library called tkscrolledframe but i used it in another window and the same problem happens except that some of the same widgets appeared

wait i think i found the problem one second

[digital rose]

lol

[proven path]

i think it's because one of my libraries wasn't loading properly or something

i was watching tiktok and then realised the only widgets that didn't appear contained stuff from that library so they weren't packed

[digital rose]

how did you import it

[digital rose]

ah i see

[proven path]

well i installed it using pip and included it in the hidden import

in pyinstaller

let me check

[proven path]

Yeah it was the problem

I think i was using tkcalendar

idk why it wasn't working with pyinstaller

[digital rose]

im glad you got it solved :)

[digital rose]

looks good ngl how much hours of work did u spent?

[untold jacinth]

i had problem with scrollframe before...so i just never used it

everything else works when importing/converting

to exe right

[proven path]

Actually the problem was caused by tkcalendar

When i replaced the date entries with regular ones it worked fine

[untold jacinth]

ahhh okay

[proven path]

But i still need tkcalendar for my app

[untold jacinth]

so it was a problem like appending it to scroll

[proven path]

No

It just wouldn't render

Probably because of some dependencies not being in the compiled verison

[untold jacinth]

oh i see!

but u did get this fixed now right?

[proven path]

no lol

if i want my app to work i can't use tkcalendar

so like rn i'm stuck between either not using it or remaking the whole app but on web

oh wait

ok i know what to do lol

[untold jacinth]

back...I see

[proven path]

@untold jacinth hey i have question is it possible to make comboboxes on tkinter like restricted to the options you give them

[sleek hollow]

isn't that already how they work?

[untold jacinth]

have you thought about using

[untold jacinth]

refer to fashoomp yeah thats what i thought

[proven path]

no but like you can write anything and it won't remove it if it's not in the values

[proven path]

.

[proven path]

what

[sleek hollow]

oh, I see what you mean

you can set it to read only mode

[untold jacinth]

im trying to get an undrestanding

so like greyed out options n stuff?

[sleek hollow]

do state='readonly' in the combobox class arguments

[proven path]

yes ik

[sleek hollow]

then I'm not quite sure what you're asking

[proven path]

no like i just did it just let me finish one thing so i can try the code

[sleek hollow]

oh ok 🙂

[proven path]

i was about to quit this whole project because of this one bug lol

[ancient heron]

well it doesnt rlly take too long cos all it is is a few tabs that display text and a message box and an enter button and with the themes its an extra letter to each button

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from ttkthemes import ThemedTk

window = ThemedTk(theme="equilux")
window.title("example")
window.geometry("600x400")

tab_control = ttk.Notebook(window)
tab_control.pack(fill="both", expand="yes")

tab1 = ttk.Frame(tab_control)
tab_control.add(tab1, text="new")

label_usage = ttk.Label(tab1, text="text input")
label_usage.pack()
entry_usage = ttk.Entry(tab1)
entry_usage.pack()

window.mainloop()```

simple gui for simple things

[hoary canopy]

How’d you do the tabs? Thought about doing that for a project but didn’t want to figure out the frames and such so I’m just hiding and destroying windows.

[ancient heron]

you need the ttkthemes downlaoded i believe and its with the tab_control = ttk.Notebook(window) tab_control.pack(fill="both", expand="yes"

and then tab1 = ttk.Frame(tab_control) tab_control.add(tab1, text="new")

[hoary canopy]

I’ll have to look into that. I just started using ttk since I’m making software that other people will be using.

Thank you

[ancient heron]

ah nice, no worries

[proven path]

Hey so it worked so thanks about that but

When i disable it the text goes away

How do i make it so it still renders the text inside while disabled so they can't change it

Oh wait found it sorry for the ping

[mighty rock]

ttk is shipped on Windows so you don't have to download or install anything external

I mean with installing Python of course

[hoary canopy]

I think ttkthemes and ttkwidgets you have you install. I know for sure ttkwidgets you do because I had to on windows to do autocomplete.

[ancient heron]

yeah ttkthemes you need to install using pip

[pallid cipher]

does anyone know a generator for those text underline things ?

[spare plank]

how do i make the size bigger of the values stored in entries

[viral stream]

how can i do live coding in pycharm so that i can see this in an html and it updates constantly when i change something in the program

[untold jacinth]

any layou suggestions... yes im bad at ui

just trying to get good idea of where im heading

[sleek hollow]

It's hard to suggest without know what exactly your program needs are

[untold jacinth]

Ai gen...

tab 2 would be output

but its empty for now ofc

[sleek hollow]

I'd consider using a group box or a larger label for the prompt/negative inputs

I'm not exactly sure what the dials are meant to represent

[untold jacinth]

ty for feedback

dials are cfg scale and steps

just didnt label yet

ima of course set som default/max values for them as well

[sleek hollow]

I'd maybe consider connecting it to a box where you can also edit the value. I personally can't stand sliders/dials, they're too imprecise

[untold jacinth]

true

but i wanted to make it look cool.....

i was gonna have just a spinbox

to pick cfg scale and steps

ty for your response. means alot : )

[viral stream]

hey, i have my gui ready so far, when i start it it takes a while until it turns on and when i go to the last page the data is updated every 3 seconds. and when i change the pages then it seems to lag. is there a way to program it so that only the displayed page is updated and the other pages are frozen ?

[hoary canopy]

I generate my windows upon calling for them and destroy them when they are closed. Monday recently showed me their app with tabs using notebook (iirc that’s what you’re using) but I haven’t got a chance to play with it yet. @viral stream

[viral stream]

ok

i'll try destroying the pages

 # Start with the "Motor" page open
        self.current_page = "Motor"
        self.main_notebook.select(self.pages[self.current_page])

    def switch_page(self, page_name):
        # Destroy the current page
        self.pages[self.current_page].destroy()

        # Create the new page
        self.pages[page_name] = self.page_classes[page_name](self.main_notebook)

        # Add the new page to the notebook
        self.main_notebook.add(self.pages[page_name], text=page_name)

        # Switch to the new page
        self.main_notebook.select(self.pages[page_name])

        # Update the current page
        self.current_page = page_name

@hoary canopy thanks for your help now it does not lag 🙂 ❤️

[vague mountain]

Is there some discord server for Kivy? I am not able to find

[tribal path]

https://discord.gg/btwfQP7Q

[untold jacinth]

u use kivy?

i tried it a little was not liking it

[vague mountain]

am studying kivy for desktop interface purposes. I use Electronjs for desktop apps, but it uses browser engine so it is heavy. I am looking lighter tool other than Electrojs.

[untold jacinth]

ahh thats nice

i use to use electron when i was learning javascript and stuff

i transitioned to python after i finished learning js

but goodluck with it man 🙂

[coarse crane]

def scale_triangle():

    # Deleting the previous triangle
    canvas.delete("triangle")

    # Retrieving entry data and creating variable for each side
    oppositeEntryData = oppositeEntry.get()
    adjacentEntryData = adjacentEntry.get()
    hypotenuseEntryData = hypotenuseEntry.get()

    # Converting data to integer and calculating the missing side
    if oppositeEntryData:
     oppositeEntryData = int(oppositeEntryData)
    else:
      oppositeEntryData = math.sqrt(int(hypotenuseEntryData)**2 - int(adjacentEntryData)**2) 
    if adjacentEntryData:
     adjacentEntryData = int(adjacentEntryData)
    else:
      adjacentEntryData = math.sqrt(int(hypotenuseEntryData)**2 - int(oppositeEntryData)**2) 
    if hypotenuseEntryData:
      hypotenuseEntryData = int(hypotenuseEntryData)
    else:
      hypotenuseEntryData = math.sqrt(int(adjacentEntryData)**2 + int(oppositeEntryData)**2)
    
    # Angle of elevation
    angleOfElevation = (numpy.arcsin([oppositeEntryData/hypotenuseEntryData]))* 180/numpy.pi
    
      
    # Defining triangle coordinates
    x1, y1 = canvasWidth/2, canvasHeight/2
    x2, y2 = x1 , y1 - oppositeEntryData
    x3, y3 = x1 + adjacentEntryData


    # Creating the triangle
    canvas.create_polygon(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, fill='black', tags='triangle')

How would I scale the triangle to fit into the size of the canvas if it's too big or it's small and can be scaled up

[digital rose]

Hello guys, i just want to know how can i make another little spacer under the buttons 1-5 so i can go on with the rest of the little cal i'm making. i'm having tons of fun making it

[sleek hollow]

I really recommend not using .place() for your buttons. It's going to make everything so much more painful as your UI grows

[digital rose]

oh hey there

for the x y placements?

i mean everything went so smooth so far

ok then, so may i know a good way to make it easier?

i really appreciate your help tho

[sleek hollow]

Yes. place() definitely seems the most straight forward at first, but it's incredibly limiting if you want to make any changes, and it isn't reactive to your window size at all. If you wanted to move something, or insert something else between the buttons, then you have to manually move the position of every button again. This is a huge waste of time. Look into pack and grid, which are the two other methods of "geometry management" in tkinter

[digital rose]

i see but i tried the pack() method it just made the buttons disappear to some universe

see what i mean

[digital rose]

use grid() @digital rose

[sleek hollow]

pack() will stack the widgets one on top of the other

but yes, you should be using grid here

They take a bit of understanding to get the hang of them. You can't just blindly use pack instead of place and expect everything to work out ok

[digital rose]

place is hard...

[digital rose]

i see, well anyways i'll see to it, thanks!

[ancient heron]

btw i dont think you need a 10 there its often just a 0

[digital rose]

yeah i know i'm just tryna make it look more uncommon

[sleek hollow]

If you'd like to bring an issue like this to the mods, send a message to @atomic obsidian

[digital rose]

mf chose my fav channel to talk abt this

[flint verge]

hi is there a discord server for flet and pynecone/reflex ?

[ionic lynx]

Hey there!
Im using customTkinter to build an UI, I'm kinda new to this so I wanted to get a little guidance.
First, is that I cant get the scrollable Frame in the left to work with mouse scroll wheel, just with dragging the bar, but in the CustomTkinter example it works fine.
Second, I did all the frame placements with .place, I know that is not the best practice but I'm not really getting how the grid works, can someone show me an example of how those three frames could be set with grids?
Thanks in advance!

[ionic lynx]

Also, any design tips or suggestions for the UI are appreciated!

[shadow heron]

Hey anyone familiar with tkinter here?

Im trying to get help over at #1152938133898407976

[gaunt abyss]

hi

[shadow heron]

Hello

[umbral wigeon]

Hello! Does anyone know a good method for layering multiple .png images on top of each other in PySide2? I've already attempted to use QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsView, but I'm encountering issues when trying to make QPropertyAnimation work with its objects (QGraphicsPixmapItems).

[digital rose]

how

[digital rose]

congrats @digital rose

whats a toga

sounds hard asf

lmao

ur in the code jam?

win what...

so you are in the code jam

...

why did you say you wont win if ur not even registered?

oh... im overthinking this

i have a question @digital rose

why did you choose toga

[digital rose]

blocked and reported

[digital rose]

i agree with the owner

stuff like this is usually made in teams

if you INSIST on doing it... then be ready for tons of sleepless nights lol

[viral stream]

how can i convert my program i wrote in pycharm to an .exe ?

[trail merlin]

Pyinstaller

pip install pyinstaller

pyinstaller --onefile your_script.py

[digital rose]

honestly that sounds fun

but you gotta have some experience

working with teams

and i dont think people would do stuff like this for free lmao

good luck <3

[solemn edge]

So i want a listbox in tkinter to show me two strings from all @dataclass objects in a filtered list, now after googling i was thinking about just throwing the list with objects at the listbox and overriding the__str__ method, any reason i shouldn't do this ?

i dont need __str__ anywhere else, and since it's anyway meant to return a "human readable" string

[solemn edge]

it's not, it's AFAIK the name given to unidentified bodies, in the US, and also commonly used as an example name

thanks

will probably be posing a lot of questions this week, i'm doing my own little codejam this week off work :D

oh no, i meant i'm off work this week, and i imposed myself the target to make a python notetaking app, with tags and categories, like a little private jam, participants: 1

i'm a (nearly) complete beginner, not up to do real jams

go on

37

or me old

[digital rose]

@digital rose i just wish you used tkinter

we couldve work together and make smth

ive always wanted to work on smth with someone lol

[digital rose]

do you use tkinter as OOP?

the way you wrote tkinter

was it with classes and objects

and all that

me neither BUT im going to

why

lists are better

yes of course

its because i said so

i wanna work on smth big...

the biggest thing i did was a calculator lmao

that sounds hard for one person

hes right

yes

since when did u start

learning toga

LMAO

AND YOU ALREADY WANNA MAKE A GUI MAKER

i can see myself making smth similar in tkinter... its possible

lmfao

it looks cool as hell

i wanna see the source code

this looks kinda object oriented

even though idk toga at all lolol

do you know about pyQT?

its another gui library

but i hear its much much harder

ill try it after tkinter

how old r u mf

[stuck pawn]

can someone rate my school a 1 on gogole mpas

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Verulam+School/@51.7553575,-0.3187235,17z/data=!4m8!3m7!1s0x48763ec5bfcbf5e9:0xe62d8e73838d400e!8m2!3d51.7553575!4d-0.3161486!9m1!1b1!16s%2Fm%2F03ccm5x?hl=pl&entry=ttu

if so thx

[digital rose]

did you just dox yourself

[stuck pawn]

i go by train

dont worry

[digital rose]

lmao

im feeling evil

[stuck pawn]

rate it a 1

[digital rose]

im gonna call mods

[stuck pawn]

pels

rate it a 1....

or else..

[digital rose]

<@&831776746206265384> help me

[stuck pawn]

bro cuz i have fuckign chool tommorow i want to get free day off if it have 0 rating fr

schols fina shut down

[sand warren]

whats going on here

[digital rose]

idc mf this is user interfaces channel

[stuck pawn]

unfortunately

[digital rose]

guys rate his school a 1

[stuck pawn]

i moved to poland to here. but britian is good

ye

real

[sand warren]

this is a python channel

[digital rose]

lmfao no way he sent his real school address

[digital rose]

okay?

[stuck pawn]

its not rel just rate it a 1

[digital rose]

im coming for you

[stuck pawn]

nooo

Dont cum for me.

[digital rose]

python blyaddd

[sand warren]

!hushhhhh

[stuck pawn]

rusian tiktoker

[digital rose]

LOL

[stuck pawn]

suka blyad python

user. blyat

[sand warren]

!mute 1153431858491707483

[proven basin]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @stuck pawn until <t:1695077289:f> (1 hour).

[digital rose]

list [1,2,3,4,5]

axel's turn

[sand warren]

!hush 1144931707326312468

[digital rose]

eivl struggling LOL

[sand warren]

nah. users leave before i can do anything

[digital rose]

oh

sorry eivl

[sand warren]

no worries, thanks for letting me know

username, id, string, regex

i think

!help mute

[proven basin]

Command Help

!timeout <user> [duration] [reason]
Can also use: mute, tempmute

Timeout a user for the given reason and duration.

A unit of time should be appended to the duration. Units (∗case-sensitive):
 y - years
 m - months∗
 w - weeks
 d - days
 h - hours
 M - minutes∗
 s - seconds

Alternatively, an ISO 8601 timestamp can be provided for the duration.

If no duration is given, a one-hour duration is used by default.

[sand warren]

hmm....

!src mute

[proven basin]

Command: timeout

Timeout a user for the given reason and duration.

Source Code

Go to GitHub

bot/exts/moderation/infraction/infractions.py:200

[sand warren]

yeah, what i said earlier

but not regex

[lilac lily]

Hey guys, looking to get UI feedback on the music player portion of my discord bot. Off the bat does the interface make sense?

[digital rose]

looks great

you can put all the gray stuff in a button thats labeled "..."

it gets displayed when the button is pressed or smth :v

[digital rose]

looks clean

[tight ice]

what does the + and - and <- and -> do?

[lilac lily]

@tight ice adds songs, removes songs, and navigates pages of the queue.

[lilac lily]

Thanks!

[lilac lily]

I do have a "basic" version that has just the first two rows but I like that ... to expand it as well!

[digital rose]

i see, it looks amazing btw :3

[tight ice]

to me those 4 buttons (maybe the search as well) arent super self explanatory

[lilac lily]

Gotcha, what do you think would be a better way to represent them? I did have an ADD SONG and DEL SONG emoji but it does look a bit tacky. And using the full words makes the interface look bad on mobile since it shifts buttons down a row or two.

Pressing the info/help button explains what each button does

[tight ice]

i cant really say what may be better but just sharing my opinion

info is a useful button

[lilac lily]

Dang, I appreciate your feedback though it helps! I've been kinda stuck trying to find the right icons to represent each function (especially since multiple buttons have multiple functions)

Ui is definitely not my strongsuit

[solemn edge]

as should be clear from the screenshot, i'm no graphics desigern, but i would use something along those lines maybe

[solemn edge]

is it possible that tkinter doesn't handle umlauts very well?
the listbox has problems with äöü even so i set it to a font that does support them

nevermind forgot to specify the format when reading the file with open(path, 'r', encoding="utf-8") as f:

[ancient heron]

i have just made a whole project and then i had the great idea i could install it to my phone and now ive found out that i either rewrite it in a different language, or rewrite it with kivvy and buildozer

what do i do:

1. learn how to use kivvy
2. learn java

or 3. use chatgpt

[tribal path]

What library is it currently written for?

[unreal grail]

Anyone familiar with Custom TKinter? I've created a method that checks if items were selected in 2 option menus. I'm trying to have this method enable the state of a button to "normal" from "disabled". Im doing a check to see if the conditions have been met. I am printing to the console so I know im getting in the correct condition. The weird part is that i cannot set the state of the button but also am no getting any errors. Anyone know if this is the correct way of setting the state of a button?

    def connect_ctrl(self, widget):
        '''
        Mehtod to keep the connect button disabled if all the 
        conditions are not cleared
        '''
        print("Connect ctrl")
        # Checking the logic consistency to keep the connection btn
        print(self.clicked_bd.get())
        print(self.clicked_com.get())
        if "-" in self.clicked_bd.get() or "-" in self.clicked_com.get():
            self.btn_connect["state"]= "disabled"
            print("options needs to be selected")
            print(self.btn_connect.cget("state"))
        else:
            self.btn_connect["state"]= "normal"
            print("PASSED!")
            print(self.btn_connect.cget("state"))

I've also tried setting state with self.btn_connect.configure(state="normal") but that throws an error

Thanks for any help in advance! 😄

[unreal grail]

NVM I think i figured it out..

self.btn_connect.configure(state="normal")

[tame dragon]

Another option could be Flet. Lets you build Flutter apps with Python for desktop/web/mobile. Much easier to use than Kivy IMO. https://flet.dev

[trail loom]

Has anyone used Tkinter Designer to make a UI using Figma? I was thinking about trying it out, but I'd like to know if it's worth it

[stoic moat]

try

The first Python based UI I have ever seen in my life

[solemn edge]

@digital rose got it working

[rough bolt]

Guys please how can I draw non filled rectangle on screen ? Everything I tried will draw it in new window but how can I manage to draw it directly on screen?

[solemn edge]

would help if you specify what you're using.
tkinter, pygame, crayons, ... ?

and by non filled rectangle you mean like only a frame ? with the application underneath it being visible ? like this ?

[rough bolt]

I already have it

but thanks anyways ❤️

[solemn edge]

What? How? ... You can't tease use like that and then not share ...

[fathom arch]

hi guys

i'm writing a simple GUI using tkinter

import tkinter as tk

fields = ('Number of simulations', 'short term volatility', 'long term volatility', 'mean reversion speed')

def market_button_cmd():
    print('good')

def simulation_cmd(entries):
    print(entries['Number of simulations'].get())

def makeform(root, fields):
    entries = {}

    for field in fields:
        row = tk.Frame(root)
        lab = tk.Label(row, width=22, text=field+": ", anchor='w')
        ent = tk.Entry(row)
        ent.insert(0,"0")
        row.pack(side=tk.TOP,fill=tk.X,padx=5,pady=5)
        lab.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        ent.pack(side=tk.RIGHT, expand=tk.YES,fill=tk.X)
        entries[field] = ent

    return entries

root = tk.Tk()
root.title(" simulation")
root.geometry("300x200")

ents = makeform(root,fields)

market_button = tk.Button(root,text="Market quotations", command=market_button_cmd)
market_button.pack(side=tk.LEFT,padx=5,pady=5)

simulation_button = tk.Button(root,text="Launch simulation", command=simulation_cmd(ents))
simulation_button.pack(side=tk.RIGHT,padx=5,pady=5)

root.mainloop()

i just wanted to test if i was able to get the user's input from one entry widget using the launch simulation button

but it fails, when i input some number in the Number of simulation entry widget and press the Launch simulation button, nothing prints on the screen

can somebody help me ?

I'm a beginner with Tkinter, maybe i'm missing out something

[sleek hollow]

The command parameter of a button takes a function object. You're calling the function

[fathom arch]

ok but i need to pass the parameter ents to the function

[ancient heron]

ah thank you i will have a look into it

[ancient heron]

well you need to save them to a variable first if you havent already

short=""
long=""
mean=""
def save():
    global sims, short, long, mean
    sims = simulations.get()
    short = short_term.get()
    long = long_term.get()
    mean = mean_value.get()

obviously dont just paste this in, need to adapt it to your code but ive slightly modified this from a project of mine and when they click the button you need the command to be save()

dont know if this helps at all your logic is a bit different to mine so its a bit confusing to read how your doing things 🤣

[digital rose]

Is there a software or something you can easily create interface visually and integrating your python code into it? Just like visual studio with tool called "Windows Forms" or something

I have a long code and I'm too lazy to redesign it one by one with tkinter. But of course, if there is no way to do this visually like windows forms from visual studio, that will be my only option.

[ancient heron]

i dont think there is a way to design a gui without coding it but i have just used tkinter all my life so if there is a way to do that, i havent been exposed to it yet

[digital rose]

they told me it is possible with qt or something

but chat gpt did it for me automatically

so i figured it out lol

[ancient heron]

ah yes pyqt if you have like £100 a month to spare then thats excellent (i havent used it i just tried signing up and it said something like $200 a month)

[ancient heron]

yeah i was gunna suggest that but it does it in a really shite way and just looks dreadful

[digital rose]

jesus thats so much money im glad i didnt use it

[ancient heron]

yeah

[digital rose]

yeah but it is working so i dont care about rest of it

[ancient heron]

fair enough

also may i recomend ttkthemes module to make it look better

https://ttkthemes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

i personally recommend Equilux theme as it looks fairly modern

from ttkthemes import ThemedTk

window = ThemedTk(theme="Equilux")
ttk.Button(window, text="Quit", command=window.destroy).pack()
window.mainloop()```
its fairly easy because chatgpt makes most guis with tkinter which is often "**tk**.Button()" sorta stuff so in short terms you can just add a letter to each time it says tk ie "**ttk**.Button()"

[hollow basin]

btn = ttk.Button(text="Login",
                 bg="white")
btn.place(x=920, y=590)

Can someone please explain why its returning an error saying the bg isn't a valid option.

[hollow basin]

uhh, so do you have an official answer

[digital rose]

@hollow basin i know why

its cuz ur using ttk

im pretty sure ttk button doesnt have background option

if you want to add a color

you should try the ttk.Style()

[ancient heron]

for example tk_window = ThemedTk(theme="equilux") window.title("") window.geometry("300x400")

well you set the theme when you start

idek tbh dont listen to me

im too tired to do stuff

cya

[digital rose]

bruh

[jagged karma]

can tkinter be used for webui?

[frozen rampart]

I don't think so. But you can open a widget with a web browser using tkinterweb. For web UI, I'd recommend you to learn html combined with CSS. It's not that difficult.

[jagged karma]

this is true

[hollow basin]

Can someone explain what a positional argument is in a style?

style.configure("Custom.login_btn",
                background="#1b1b1b",
                font="Robto")

login_btn = ttk.Button(text="Login", style="Custom.login_btn")
login_btn.place(x=1000, y=700)

Error:

TypeError: Style.configure() missing 1 required positional argument: 'style'

@ mention me when you reply.

[digital rose]

this basically means

Style.configure("you should add something here which would he style")

i dont know anyth about style, but thats what they mean by positional argument

it goes inside of the ()

[mighty rock]

What's the full error? This line from the error is not present in the snippet you gave us, so either you're not showing the right snippet of code, or you're not showing the full error

[knotty knot]

can someone help me with a Customtkinter problem?

[sleek hollow]

Your best bet is to simply ask the question instead of waiting for someone to specifically come along to help

[sacred abyss]

i; gonnq stqrt over

im gonna start over*

so

[digital rose]

@sacred abyss hi

[sacred abyss]

i import tkinter

hi

[digital rose]

yes

i saw that you imported is like this

from tkinter import *

[sacred abyss]

then i do Tk = tkinter.Tk()

[digital rose]

nope

[sacred abyss]

i tried that last time fro totutrial

[digital rose]

since you imported it as *

you just do root = Tk()

without the tkinter.

root is your main window

if you want to change the title youd do root.title()

[sacred abyss]

then i do mainloop?

[digital rose]

yes

you do root.mainloop()

[sacred abyss]

ok epic it works

[digital rose]

nice

[sacred abyss]

now i want to add an label what is the best way to do it?

[digital rose]

you do

label = Label(root, text="text")

btw you should start using ttk

learn about it later :)

[sacred abyss]

lol i should

im gonna make a bwr simulator

[digital rose]

what is bwr

[sacred abyss]

and also i need it for proect

for school

[sacred abyss]

boiling water reactor

[digital rose]

sounds exciting

[sacred abyss]

lol

[sacred abyss]

so now i pack it?

[digital rose]

the label? yes

you can do pack(), grid(), place()

theyre very different but for now stick with pack

[sacred abyss]

doesnt seem to appear

[digital rose]

there is a guy on youtube name atlas, he has a 40 video series about tkinter thats really good

[sacred abyss]

how do i make the windows size a constant?

[sacred abyss]

oh xd i cant right now

[digital rose]

oh it should he pack()

add the ()

[digital rose]

root.resizable(False, False)

this makes it so you cant change the width OR the height

[sacred abyss]

nice

[digital rose]

nice

[sacred abyss]

and how do i set it before that?

like 500x500 resulotion

[digital rose]

you do

root.geometry('500x500')

it should be a string

dont forget the ' '

[sacred abyss]

can it be possible with " "?

[digital rose]

yes

[sacred abyss]

this is out of context but is there a way to interrupt a while true loop without polling

[digital rose]

yeah

[sacred abyss]

how is it done

[digital rose]

i think you add break at the end of it

while True:
    ...
    break```

[sacred abyss]

no no i was like def quizstart():

while true:
sleep(1)

and when the user ends the quiz it breaks

without polling on if the user has done the quiz or not

[digital rose]

it ends automatically?

after like 10 seconds for example?

[sacred abyss]

nvm ill just poll it xd it seems impossible it

[digital rose]

what do you mean poll it

[sacred abyss]

checking each time if the user has done it or not and i want it like when he fisnishes it does like a system intterrupt on the while true loop

[digital rose]

i dont get it 😭

[sacred abyss]

lol nvm

[digital rose]

sorry

[sacred abyss]

and how do i add button

[digital rose]

i think you can use the threading library

you run the while loop in a different thread

and the condition in another thread

so if the condition changes the while loop breakd

[digital rose]

button = Button(root, text="Click Me")

you can add a command

so when the button is pressed something happens

[sacred abyss]

its not giving any output

i guess its in inf loop

import threading
import time
from tkinter import *
timer = 0
userfisnished = False
def startquiz(timer):
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
        timer = timer + 1
t1 = threading.Thread(target=startquiz(timer))

root = Tk()
root.title("Quiz")
root.geometry("500x300")
root.resizable(False, False)
label = Label(root, text=timer)
button = Button(root, text="Click Me", command=t1.start())
button.pack
label.pack()
root.mainloop()

how do i fix

[digital rose]

hi @sacred abyss

button.pack()

dont forget ()

also did you really just go and learn the threading library for this?

this is awesome LMAO

[sacred abyss]

yes

[sleek hollow]

I have a pyqt thumbnail viewer app for videos. I'd like to be able to drag from the thumbnail viewer into discord to share a video just like I would with a video file from explorer. Does anyone know how I could mimic this behaviour? I'm using QDrag and trying to set the mimedata but that doesn't seem to be enough

[digital rose]

did you figure this out?

[sleek hollow]

Nope, but the deeper I went, the more I realized it might use a special encoding that I'm not really able to reverse engineer

'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="Shell IDList Array"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="UsingDefaultDragImage"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="DragImageBits"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="DragContext"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="DragSourceHelperFlags"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="InShellDragLoop"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileContents"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileName"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileNameW"', b''
'application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileGroupDescriptorW"', b''

These data types are what the mimeData contains when dropping a file into pyqt, but all the actual data is encoded

[digital rose]

this is hard

[sleek hollow]

I tried re-using the mime data that was packaged with the drop event and reinsert it into the qdrag but it causes pyqt to crash and I'm not really sure why

[digital rose]

good luck fashoomp :D

[sleek hollow]

I think I've hit a wall with it and it's not really worth the extra effort. I'll just have it open in explorer first and then drag/drop from there. Was just trying to save 1 step, haha

[dim shuttle]

I wast advised to ask for help in here. I need an assist with a re-orderable tkinter canvas. My Help topic is HERE: https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1156014467520401478

I have been stumped on it for a day and not really sure what my disconnect is.

[sleek hollow]

This is a huge pain in tkinter since it doesn't exactly let you insert a widget between others. You would have to calculate the new order, then unpack everything and repack in the new order that you want

[dim shuttle]

If you check out the video I posted... I actually have it working.
The issue is that I can't click on the widgets I want to move, but instead the canvas next to them.

[sleek hollow]

That I'm not sure about, but is there a reason you need to use canvas?

[dim shuttle]

No, That is just the way I found tutorials for online.
I wanted to move around a custom widget and ListBox only handled text widgets.

If you have a better option... I am all ears.

[sleek hollow]

You should be able to use a frame

just pack the buttons into the frame

having the actual visual of the widget and you click and drag is tricky though

sorry I don't actually use tkinter that much so I don't have a very definitive answer

[dim shuttle]

I don't strictly need it to be tkinter either, I just need it to work

Canvas let me do "Create_Window" which gave me a ui I could move with the mouse

it's what let me have the feeling of dragging around a widget.

[sleek hollow]

I have a similar structure that I use for a project but it's pyqt. It also doesn't visualize the widget as it's being dragged (but I don't think it would be that hard to implement on top, I just never needed it)

[dim shuttle]

i'll look into pyqt

thanks

[sleek hollow]

turns out it's super easy to display the dragged widget

[haughty musk]

Hello everyone, I have an issue regarding relative imports in my project:

In a nutshell, my workspace is a folder named "PIPELINE," which contains two directories: "LIBS" and "GUI." Within my "LIBS" directory, I have a subdirectory that contains the source code for "customtkinter" (I should mention that within this directory, as mentioned earlier, there are 4 or 5 files that are essential for the proper functioning of Ctk). In my "GUI" directory, I have a file named "gui.py" that utilizes functions from CTk, and I'd like to import the package (i.e., the entire directory) into my Python file to make use of it. (I need to do this because Ctk is not installed by default on all the computers where I need to deploy the project.)

So, when I attempt the import relatively, like this: "from pipeline.libs import customtkinter," everything works fine if my "gui.py" file is at the root of the project. However, if it's within the "GUI" directory, I encounter this error: "ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package."

I'm aware that I could use sys.path, but I find it a bit messy, having encountered some errors with it in previous projects. I'm looking for a cleaner method. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you. I should note that I have __init__.py files in both "LIBS" and "customtkinter" directories.

[marble agate]

how can i provide text input in the terminal for a rock, paper, scissors game

[digital rose]

in the terminal? so no gui?

[cold beacon]

The most basic terminal input is the standard lib "input" function: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-3-input-function/ - it shows a text prompt and returns whatever the user types as a string.

[digital rose]

set input("text here") to a variable

and the answer will be stored in the variable

[blazing pine]

for Qt based applications, how are different QWidgets/Windows typically stored? I'm talking about things like settings dialogs, or a log viewer, about dialog things of that nature...

Is it standard practice to store them as attributes of the "main" window, and just call the .show() method on them as needed, or do folks store them elsewhere?

[marble agate]

👍

[rocky dragon]

I don't store my windows and have the set up to delete on close, where they're all opened through a class that manages the interconnected signals between windows. If you want to re-use window instances and show/hide them I'd move things outside of the main window

No idea on best practices though, as I last worked with my app a couple years back and it was still a mess

[blazing pine]

in this case, it's a log-viewer so I probably want to have that running all the time, so when the user requests to see t he window, they can see past log entries?

well, ...perhaps I want the "model" for the logger running constantly, not necessarily the viewer...

anyway apprecaite the sanity check 👍

[rocky dragon]

Don't think it should be too different if you keep the window around (though may be unnecessary if it's only open ocassionaly), just have to figure out where to keep it. Just keep the cleanup or reuse in mind as I had to set the delete on close and I think something else for the gc to actually clean up stuff qt left behind even when not referenced by the app

[sleek hollow]

Figured this out, it was actually way simpler than I thought. I had executed my QDrag using Qt.MoveAction. By changing it to Qt.CopyAction, it worked!

[digital rose]

so it copies the file?

or the thumbnail?

when you drag it?

[sleek hollow]

It simply uses the path to the file on your computer

all the thumbnails represent existing files on my pc

[digital rose]

ohhhh

wait

did you make a file explorer?

[sleek hollow]

Not quite. It's a tool for logging bugs in a game. I can upload a video clip of a bug, and I can enter some text, and it will overlay the text onto the video. I then wanted to share the exported video directly from pyqt without having to browse to the file on my pc

I drag the bug file into Source Video

I type in some info and click "Process". The result appears in "Output Video", and I wanted to be able to drag from there into discord (and now I can)

[digital rose]

ohhhh now i understand

im so glad you made it work :D

[rich salmon]

Hey everyone, I'm new to Python. I was reading Customtkinter documentation and I couldn't find how to add spacing inside the entry field. Someone told me to use ipadx for internal spacing but it doesn't add space instead it's making my entry widget bigger. What I want is shown in the screenshot. I want my text to start from the red line instead of the start. Any kind of help would be appreciated.

[sleek hollow]

Is there a specific reason you need this? The solution might involve setting a custom background to the entry to make it look like there's a padding

[mighty rock]

I don't know whether customtkinter uses tkinter.ttk, but I found a solution for tkinter.ttk:

from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter.ttk import Entry, Style


root = Tk()
style = Style(root)
style.configure("TEntry", padding="5 1 -3 1")
entry = Entry(root)
entry.pack()
root.mainloop()

It works by adding 4 pixels to the default left padding and subtracting 4 pixels from the default right padding. Credit goes to this answer on Stack Overflow.

[lunar portal]

um i need help

i just have a doubt i want to clear

does the background image we set in a tkinter window change size if we run it in a screen that is smaller than the specified resolution for the window?

[sleek hollow]

Nope

[lunar portal]

hm so i ran my code in my frnds sytem and the placements of the buttons were not right

it was fine when i did it mine

@sleek hollow sry for the ping but can i dm u abt this?

[sleek hollow]

No need to DM. You can open a help thread on this server if you need help with something #❓｜how-to-get-help

[limber shell]

Hey, i'm using pygame to create pomodoro app. The gradient colors on loading screen and all app is working fine on linux vmware environment, but on windows no colors are displayed on loading screen and also the program automatically exits after loading screen. All dependencies are met, and libraries are upto date on windows, can't figure out what can possibly go wrong. Kindly help

[lunar portal]

hey i have an update the grid system is working but im getting those white thingy around the image any solutions? @sleek hollow