user-interfaces

[sleek hollow]

let's say I inherit QWidget to write my own custom class

then I write a few custom methods all with snake_case naming. Then when I go to call a method, I can tell that camel case methods are originally part of the inherited class and snake case methods are my own

[covert vessel]

Ok, get it. So here is the correct example of naming convention which you use:
file_menu = self.menuBar().addMenu("&File")

Or self._file_menu = <Qt.widget>

[sleek hollow]

yes exactly. Something like this

class SearchWdg(QtWidgets.QWidget):


    def do_search(self):
        ...

    def populate_items(self):
        ...

when my IDE autocompletes, now I know that do_search and populate_items are custom methods, but anything in camelCase are methods that were already part of the class

makes it easier to search for documentation so I don't confuse custom functions with original

[covert vessel]

Yeah, agree. I have the same thought about it. Thank you so much for you help 🙂

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[cerulean cloak]

Hello, when I define the iconbitmap in my project and when I compile my project with auto-py-to-exe and I addfile the icon and I run the .exe newly compiled does not work

It work if i remove de iconbitmap but not icon

Error
bitmap "icon.ico" not defined

[solar haven]

Flet framework(Flutter) is the answer to that

[severe spire]

if you really want more customization, you could go with GTK but that would use C++

You can even put up a nice custom titlebar there too

[hushed veldt]

hello everyone, i want to look at a way to create data viz for like a line chart that takes up 3d space (x,y, z, axis). i was thinking of vega-lite/altair but i look at docs and i dont see if they can create 3d charts like that. any tips?

[slate tree]

Using tkinter I'm having a problem where I'm trying to put an image in front of a button but it is not working, I've gone through a bunch of chat gpt solutions but none of them really worked. Ive made a dumbed down version just so show the problem.

from pathlib import Path
from tkinter import Tk, Canvas, Button, PhotoImage


OUTPUT_PATH = Path(__file__).parent
ASSETS_PATH = OUTPUT_PATH / Path(r"C:\Users\user\Desktop\build\assets\frame0")


def relative_to_assets(path: str) -> Path:
    return ASSETS_PATH / Path(path)


window = Tk()

window.geometry("1920x1080")
window.configure(bg = "#FFFFFF")


canvas = Canvas(
    window,
    bg = "#FFFFFF",
    height = 1080,
    width = 1920,
    bd = 0,
    highlightthickness = 0,
    relief = "ridge"
)

canvas.place(x = 0, y = 0)
button_image_1 = PhotoImage(
    file=relative_to_assets("button_1.png"))
button_1 = Button(
    image=button_image_1,
    borderwidth=0,
    highlightthickness=0,
    command=lambda: print("button_1 clicked"),
    relief="flat"
)
button_1.place(
    x=256.0,
    y=136.0,
    width=1408.0,
    height=808.0
)

image_image_1 = PhotoImage(
    file=relative_to_assets("image_1.png"))
image_1 = canvas.create_image(
    949.0,
    297.0,
    image=image_image_1
)
window.resizable(False, False)
window.mainloop()

I want to have image_1 cover button_1. I've tried using lift and lower and canvas.tag_raise but none of them seemed to work.

[royal cape]

i think you have two issues to deal with here:

1. button_1 is missing a parent so it defaults to your window root, meaning it can only obscure the entire canvas or, if lowered, the entire canvas widget will obscure it and not just the image inside it
2. due to a limitation in windowing systems (docs), even if you parented button_1 to the canvas and used canvas.create_window(..., window=button_1), widgets always get rendered above other items regardless of stacking order
   in your case, it would probably be a better idea to use a Label widget to show your image instead, e.g. py button_1.place(...) image_1 = Label(window, image=image_image_1) image_1.place(...)

though if you're using a transparent image, i don't think the label's rectangular background can be made transparent... if that's not desirable, i guess you might have to put a regular image inside a canvas and .tag_bind() it so you can capture mouse events, then create your other image on top of that...

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[somber hemlock]

you can use gtk in python

!pypi gvsbuild

[proven basin]

gvsbuild v2024.5.0

GTK stack for Windows

Released on <t:1715289022:D>.

[somber hemlock]

that's for windows but gtk has python support

[wicked sinew]

Tkinter script (not sure if it fits in this channel)
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/M6TQ

[lucid lintel]

if i've written some code that links to a pyqt .ui file, how do i convert that code to work for a .py file (converted from a .ui file)

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[sour warren]

Hi.... I am sort a very much beginner to python. I want to generate an Windows Application using python. Where I could make use live chart with x-axis, y-axis and y-secondary axis. Few buttons to stop and run the chart. I have somewhat started with pyQT ...is it a right library for this?

[sleek hollow]

Yup, there's QtCharts that you can use

[sour warren]

Thanks a lot.Very helpful!! 🙂

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[exotic anchor]

would this be a nice "user friendly" template for the running logic of a pygame display? or am i missing some key functions

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/CG2A

[glacial quarry]

How to run GTK4-python-flatpak application locally for development (contribution purposes) WITHOUT gnome builder

[severe spire]

Really don't know about GTK and python but if it's there, it's amazing.

[wicked sinew]

i really hate it when

[stable osprey]

Ah, I see. Is there a king of good GUI I can install or a library that handles that type of stuff?

I appreciate the insight

[quiet crystal]

I just now found this notice on pytermgui's github: (see image)

But the link (https://github.com/shade40) contains multiple TUI frameworks (Celadon, celx, and Slate are tui frameworks from what I can understand)

What is the current recommended TUI library to use? I found people recommending pytermgui, but that's in posts that were made 2 years ago

Okay so it seems like the competition is between using https://github.com/shade40/Celadon directly and using https://github.com/shade40/celx to wrap it.
Is there another option I should consider? maybe even sticking with pytermgui?

[uneven crystal]

Can I run two different windows using multiprocessing or rather two loops? The other one would be tkinter generated gui and other 3d plotter or viewer. Anyone have knowledge on this area?

[royal cape]

i dont write TUIs much, but you could check out textual, written by the same maintainers of the rich library
https://textual.textualize.io/

[spiral apex]

You can run two windows with one event loop

[uneven crystal]

import tkinter as tk

import f3d

engine = f3d.Engine(f3d.Window.NATIVE)
frame = tk.Tk()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    engine.window.render()
    engine.interactor.start()

    frame.mainloop()```

As far as I have looked through discussions, this type of style is not talked about

[quiet crystal]

I'll look at it, thanks!
Since I'm only prototyping, I realized that this is a satisfactory choice menu / inventory GUI for now:

(resources = inventory)

[spiral apex]

Ah two different gui frameworks is harder to integrate

[uneven crystal]

Yes. Both are loops, that wait for user inputs. Only one could be active for input though

[spiral apex]

You can probably use multiprocessing with spawn to integrate these two different UI toolkits

[uneven crystal]

So I was right to assume that multiprocessing is good choice for this, thank you.

[uneven crystal]

import multiprocessing as mp
import tkinter as tk

import f3d


def f3d_process():
    engine = f3d.Engine(f3d.Window.NATIVE)
    engine.window.render()
    engine.interactor.start()


def tk_process():
    frame = tk.Tk()
    frame.mainloop()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    p1 = mp.Process(target=f3d_process)
    p2 = mp.Process(target=tk_process)

    p1.start()
    p2.start()

Here is the solution. Only problem is that f3d interactor does not support event release and viewer refreshing.

[spiral apex]

You only need one mp.Process

[spiral apex]

And remember to use mp.get_context("spawn").Process

[uneven crystal]

Which one should be targeted and which one spawned?

[spiral apex]

Targeted?

[uneven crystal]

target=???

[spiral apex]

The one targeted will be the one spawned

[uneven crystal]

I'm confused now. These are separate gui frameworks, so I would expect I need to two mp.Process. So what is the code you are referring to with mp.Process?

[spiral apex]

The main process can run one of the guis

[uneven crystal]

So how should be this written? ```py
if name == "main":
p1 = mp.Process(target=f3d_process)
p2 = mp.Process(target=tk_process)

p1.start()
p2.start()``` There is no good example when googling

[potent patio]

Not sure if this is the right group, but which is the most preferred front end framework for python? Kivy? Or is it worth learning flutter? I don't really want to learn dart for flutter so looking for better framework to build app using python.

[sleek hollow]

PySide6 is probably your best bet right now

[untold marsh]

I the last few months I’ve discovered quite a few python libraries for building user interfaces/apps. So exciting that Python is getting this type of attention. I’ve mostly used flask but now I have these on my list. Flet, NiceGUI, reflex, streamlit. Am I missing any?

[potent patio]

Thanks, any specific reason to choose pyside6? I hear a lot about kivy but I think it is a bit hard to work with it.

[potent patio]

Which one would you recommend for a full fledged mobile app? I want to run the app in both android and iOS

[abstract haven]

I'm a fan of Kivy even though it doesn't look native. The Beeware stuff and Flet look interesting but haven't personally tried yet

[potent patio]

Thanks.

Guys anyone vote for Kivy and KivyMD upon Flutter?

[sudden elk]

it's not important but i'd just like to ask. is there a way to make accessible and cross-platform GUI in python?
mainly focused in things supporting elements like text input, buttons, webview and possibly screen interaction like drag&drop. (thought of building sort of scratch but for making sites but that's just a thought might think of other similar things instead too, like shortcuts for desktop or idk - game engine)

[spiral apex]

I think the web is probably the only way to make something accessible

[sudden elk]

nothing for python, so it could be offline, yep?

[spiral apex]

You can make a web app that works offline

[sudden elk]

its buggy…

been doing such

[untold marsh]

I know you can do IOS and Android with Flet . I just learned of reflex and streamlit so I'm not sure. Haven't tried for NiceGUI yet

[shell crystal]

Currently working on a program to download files from repositories, is this UI decent?

It's meant to be basic so people can easily use it without having to pull out a manual

[quiet kelp]

is this considered a clean piece of code or not

[sleek hollow]

Robust with full customization, and an insane amount of support/documentation since it's based on Qt library

[spare olive]

Any of you have used the rich module?

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

[unique marten]

pip install autopep8 it will automatically format your code with PEP8 style guide so you don't have to ask again and again

[quiet kelp]

got it, thank you

[tame yarrow]

When creating a user interface is it even recommended to use python or should i use a different language? If other, what are they?

[royal gull]

Python isn't like the language preferred for UIs but they are definitely doable (a bunch of GNOME/GTK apps are in Python, like Pitivi). For alternatives, there's C# if you're doing it for Windows and there's also just making a web app and having the backend be JS or another lang.

[tame yarrow]

So then where would python be used?

[royal gull]

Python can be used in a good number of things. You could do the UI in Python, the backend behind it, or both if you'd like (in Pitivi's case, it's mostly Python apart from the multimedia stuff which is gstreamer).

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[halcyon cosmos]

Hey so does anyone have knowledge about customtkinter

[halcyon cosmos]

Well I’d start by implementing either the game in a console version first and then work on the gui or just like build the gui elements first and then implement the lgpoc but I don’t know what gui library is best suited for it

[low jacinth]

Hi everyone. I am building a transcription app in Streamlit with Speech SDK by microsoft. Now while the Transcription is running and there is a status as "Running" by streamlit, I want to show a button where user can stop the transcription. I tried with a flag and system state, but doesnt work.
Can anyone help?
My code:

  with coll2:
    stop_button = st.form_submit_button(label="Stop")
    if stop_button:
       stop_message = stop_transcription()
       st.text(stop_message)

for transcription:
transcription_generator = transcribe_audio(io.BytesIO(audio_bytes), file_name)
for result in transcription_generator:
   if "Guest-1" in result:
      st.chat_message("user").markdown(result)
      st.session_state.messages.append({"role": "user", "content": result})
   else:
      st.chat_message("assistant").markdown(result)
      st.session_state.messages.append({"role": "assistant", "content": result})

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[digital rose]

been spending a lot of time with tkinter recently
for anyone who's done ui design in py for years
should i just ditch tkinter and move onto pyqt?

pyqt seems to have a lot more features
and from documentation appears to be intended for object orientated audience

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[echo epoch]

need some help:

accessRightMenu = CTkOptionMenu(registrationFrame, variable=self.selected_access_right, values=access_rights_options, font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", self.fonts(14)), text_color='white', fg_color='#263D49',corner_radius=10)
accessRightMenu.place(anchor="center", relx=0.3, rely=0.6, relheight=0.05, relwidth=0.1)

[ionic nacelle]

https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/pyqt-vs-tkinter/

This would be relevant to you. I started with tkinter myself and moved to pyqt in python. It did have terrible python documentation back then. It also depends on what you need your ui to do, is it just a proof of concept that needs a quick ui- tkinter might be the way. Want a full fledged desktop app- Pyqt might be the way.\

[digital rose]

i didn't even know it had a video player, web browser, neat
gonna move over to pyqt then
one of the biggest issues for tkinter is how the treeviews work
followed tutorials 1:1 and all the tutors even have problems with it lol

• its not using a native theme, tkinter by itself is really ugly

well... goodbye tkinter 🤣

[ionic nacelle]

it does have a steeper learning curve imo, but still way better imo. I was able to transfer my knowledge to other platforms as well.

[digital rose]

i think tkinter is better for small scale scripts
but pyqt is better overall choice for integrating with larger apps

[royal cape]

followed tutorials 1:1 and all the tutors even have problems with it
were you using tkdocs and the official reference? from my occasional usage of treeview, operations on it seemed simple enough
its not using a native theme, tkinter by itself is really ugly
were the rest of your widgets from the themed set? you can make native-style GUIs with tkinter at the cost of customization

i agree that it doesn't natively support more advanced features tho, even drag and drop support requires calling wm-specific APIs yourself (if i understand correctly)

[digital rose]

you can easily get treeview to work
i just mean it's weird, i specifically remember having to do some tricks
just to get the treeview to look normal
without having excess bar space on the left most side of the widget

another weird thing i noticed about tkinter
is that when you press buttons, they leave a weird... almost imprint on the button? like as if its relief is pressed until a new button is clicked

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[blazing pine]

Question for Qt wizards here. Is there a benefit to being specific with types in the signal slot mechanisms?

For example, is there a functional difference between

QtCore.Signal(object) / @QtCore.Slot(object)

and

QtCore.Signal(numpy.ndarray) / @QtCore.Slot(numpy.ndarray)

Using ndarray as an example, but can substitute anything else such as str, int, float, whatever.

[mighty frigate]

In QtQuick, when using InputPanel, how can I chnage the default popup orientation

[mighty frigate]

prob the same as being specific in your function arguments typing

[blazing pine]

I know there is some internal mechanisms that occur with the signal/slot decorations, so it’s not just for readability or linting. With qasync for example, slots wont work unless decorated.

[granite escarp]

Hi everyone, I have a small question related to pyside6. I've been trying to migrate from qt5 to pyside6 but when using pyside designer it won't let me modify the property values of anything unless it's a checkbox or a select so I can't change things like margins and sizes and it wasn't a problem with qt designer, is there any way to fix this?

[amber agate]

Hi all! I have a small data entry app that I build with tkinter and the data are backed to an sqlite. I was wondering if I used pyinstaller would the database also be included in the executable? In other words could someone else add to the db on another machine if they run the executable?

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[earnest dagger]

u could include it but your db will not be synced across all other instances of your app

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[tight ice]

Not sure if this is exactly the right channel - does anyone know of any libraries where I can create a pannable and zoomable world

like pannable screen

if that kind of makes sense

to render organisms being sinulated

https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa for example this looks like a great framework to create my simulation but all the examples show the simulation screen as a cellular automata type grid instead of just a free world space

eg here the dots arranged in a grid format

not panable, not detailed

[sleek hollow]

you could do this in pyside with a QGraphicsScene but it's quite a steep learning curve

[tight ice]

mm how easy is it to create graphs in pyside?

I have worked with pyqt a decent amount so maybe its easier because of this

[sleek hollow]

There's a QChart class for it

You can also look into #pyqtgraph

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[amber agate]

right right! Its just an app for my wife and I, I was thinking about using rsync to keep the db up to date on each machine

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[jade siren]

what's the difference between window.grid_columnconfigure() and window.columnconfigure() in tkinter

[royal cape]

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.12.3/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py#L1851-L1859
no difference, the latter method is an alias for the former

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Lib/tkinter/__init__.py lines 1851 to 1859

def grid_columnconfigure(self, index, cnf={}, **kw):
    """Configure column INDEX of a grid.

    Valid resources are minsize (minimum size of the column),
    weight (how much does additional space propagate to this column)
    and pad (how much space to let additionally)."""
    return self._grid_configure('columnconfigure', index, cnf, kw)

columnconfigure = grid_columnconfigure```

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[hexed lantern]

How bad is it if when using tkinter, instead of modifying a frame / button, you just delete it and put a new one on top?

[sleek hollow]

it entirely depends on your situation

[hexed lantern]

fair enough, atm it works, so i'm not gonna knock it lol

[hoary canopy]

I currently destroy and rebuild my widgets, but it’s wrapped in its own function.

[hexed lantern]

That is something i should have figured out a long time ago lmao

going well so far at least

I think this is pretty good for a first attempt

haven't finished it yet, havent even added scaling yet, thats gonna be a pain

[blazing pine]

pyqtgraph. It's a plotting library but the view-area will definitely handle pan/zooms over a region as large as you define. It does interaction very well, and lots of ability to specify min/max ranges (preventing from zooming in or zooming out too far) and can specify limits on bounds so you don't scroll indefinitely.

[hoary canopy]

For things like your two character label, try a for loop. That way you can get all 7 labels with one chuck of code instead of 7 chucks of the same code.

[hexed lantern]

I did do that! same with all the multi parts

[hoary canopy]

My next step is to try to get all my widget information in a json file and just load from there lol.

[hexed lantern]

Thats a sensible way of doing it, im just using a .txt file filled with lists separated by a line break.

[onyx kindle]

Yo

[wind crypt]

#1250334951019253804

[elder hinge]

Has anyone used Qpdfview and Pdfdocument and can answer a question?

[opal crypt]

yo

anyone know how i can change the size of a button on hover in customtkinter?

[dusty flame]

~~Does anyone have experience in PySimpleGUI?

while True:
    event = window.Read()
    if event == WIN_CLOSED: break

I've added this as instructed, to handle window closing while checking for button events, but I get a traceback error whenever I close the script's UI

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\Sam\Desktop\folder structure\interface.py", line 38, in <module>
    if event == WIN_CLOSED: break
                ^^^^^^^^^^
NameError: name 'WIN_CLOSED' is not defined

I've tried changing the script to use ui.WIN_CLOSED (ui being my variable for PySimpleGUI) but I just get popups of the attached image~~

Fixed: ui.WIN_CLOSED worked, I just forgot to add the values = window.Read()

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[potent patio]

Hi all, what's the best way to create Google login page in Kivy? I want the user to click on login with Google button which should redirect to Google login page within the app across iOS and android. Currently i can get the login page open in a external web browser. Is this the best solution to it? Any references and suggestions would be much appreciated.

[hoary canopy]

Most apps I use open a separate browser. I would also refer to googles API as they more than likely have a way to handle this as well.

[potent patio]

There isn't anything much there I think. Thanks captain

[echo epoch]

Why is this happening on CTK

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[rose vapor]

@royal cape im online, I wanna try to solve this error I am having.

[royal cape]

can you paste the error message and your current code?

!paste

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Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
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[hexed lantern]

https://github.com/TheKekening/Fallout-VTTRPG-Player-Card/tree/main

Have been working on this the past few days, i know it is incredibly poorly coded but it looks neat i think, tell me what you think

(latest version on the Switching-Armour-Selection branch)

[rose vapor]

Would you be able to join a voice channel and I can share my screen, because I can show you what my app does and then what it tells me. It works as it sits now but thats because I removed alot of code from it. Plus im not very good with this discord commands xD

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/6BRA

Here is the code, it runs as is but I cant get farther than this lol

I also use PyCharm and PyCharm does not like to explain errors clear enough

[royal cape]

i dont normally VC, but this looks like the same grid/pack mixup as before

oh, but the command isn't properly calling your function either

[hexed lantern]

I'm not sure if the py lambda is necessary, because you arent parsing arguments to the function

[royal cape]

lambda: myClick simply references your function without calling it

[rose vapor]

in the video I watched it called it and worked fine, it posted numbers on screen and worked as it should

everytime I try to copy code it fails, but everyone else seems to get it working without issue

[royal cape]

if you want tkinter to call your function directly, command=myClick would be fine, but if you add parameters to your function then lambda would be needed

def callback():
    print("Doing something")

def callback_with_parameters(num):
    print("Doing something with", num)

Button(..., command=callback)
Button(..., command=lambda: callback_with_parameters(123))```

technically lambda: callback() would work too, it's just redundant to use a lambda in that case

[rose vapor]

I tried both and both failed

you saw my previous code

I entered "number" and put (1) and it failed

I even tried "resource" and (1) and it failed

[royal cape]

they ended up being errors for different issues

[rose vapor]

def myClick(number)

and then called myClick(1)

[royal cape]

e.g. putting command= inside grid() and using .pack() for the label

command=lambda: myClick(1) was indeed correct

[rose vapor]

I tried it in both .grid and in the actual button

it failed both times because apparently slaves cant work with commands

and im like

ok

As of right now, my app runs and I can click the button, but it does nothing, even if I tell it to print("Hello") it will jusr refuse

[royal cape]

right, lambda: myClick references your function but doesn't call it

command=myClick or command=lambda: myClick() should be written

[rose vapor]

Those dont work, I tried both of those as I said and it refuses

[royal cape]

did you save your file?

[rose vapor]

This is the error I get everytime

Literally call it and it breaks

[royal cape]

right, myLabel.pack() isn't allowed because your button is gridded on the same root window, and a window can't have children using two different geometry managers

[rose vapor]

.grid shouldnt cause an issue, the guy said its easier than typing both .grid and .pack

[royal cape]

the error message is enough for me to infer that is the issue

it's the mixing of .grid and .pack in a single window that Tk doesn't allow

[rose vapor]

I am writing this code myself, and I watched some videos about Tkinter buttons and displays, and it worked but it wotn work for me

So the videos arent for my code, its in general

I am writing this code myself

So obviosuly its not a 1:1, but my Tkinter isnt different to the one he is using. Tkinter isnt different for everyone

[rose vapor]

So how would I write it to make it work?

the .grid() is to display it on different rows and columns

.pack() just displays it

[royal cape]

here's a minimal reproducible example of your error message: ```py
from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter.ttk import Button

app = Tk()

Button(app, text="Managed with grid").grid()
Button(app, text="Managed with pack").pack()

app.mainloop() py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 7, in <module>
Button(app, text="Managed with pack").pack()
File "Python311\Lib\tkinter_init_.py", line 2471, in pack_configure
self.tk.call(
_tkinter.TclError: cannot use geometry manager pack inside . which already has slaves managed by grid``` Tk raises an error here because the child widgets of app, that being the two buttons, cannot use different geometry managers at the same time

[rose vapor]

That makes sense

[royal cape]

either both buttons should use grid(): py Button(app, text="Managed with grid").grid() Button(app, text="Managed with grid").grid() or both buttons use pack(): py Button(app, text="Managed with pack").pack() Button(app, text="Managed with pack").pack()

[rose vapor]

so just use one

[royal cape]

yes

[rose vapor]

but I use one and it breaks

[royal cape]

does it show a different error message?

[rose vapor]

Ok now it does something

Holy hell

idk what I did

Hmmm

Maybe I just used .grid() again and not .pack()

Maybe it was reading the .pack() with the .grid() and not separately

[royal cape]

well earlier you had three widgets, an entry that had grid(), a button that had grid(), and a label that had pack()

[rose vapor]

omg, ima have to do this like 10 times lmaooo

[rose vapor]

Yeah I think it was my Label.pack()

I had everything else .grid()

This code works and prints the string I give it

[royal cape]

it's normal to write duplicate code, the fact you notice it is an opportunity to make your code easier to change/extend

remember my last example? #1251718473432698922 message
instead of writing four button definitions, i used a tuple of items and a for-loop to create the four buttons

[rose vapor]

Well I am going to have to do this code for like 10 more buttons but now I run into another issue, idk how to separate each code for each button. Each button has a different output

Im brand new to Python so maybe im tackling more than I can handle but this is fairly easy because its just buttons and strings

[royal cape]

if you think they're too different to de-duplicate then fair enough, keep writing it out until you see a way to shorten your program

[rose vapor]

a list wouldnt work then eh?

ima shortcut it lmaoo

[royal cape]

maybe

[rose vapor]

Its just the different items yield different numbers, one item gives 5, another gives 20, some give 10-15

[royal cape]

perhaps you want to loop through a table of values, e.g. ```py
ITEMS = [
("Blade", 2, 3),
("Sign", 4, 6),
("Spring", 8, 12),
]

for name, safe_value, unsafe_value in ITEMS:
button = Button(
...,
text=name,
command=lambda: add_value(safe_value, unsafe_value)
)
button.grid()```

oops, forgot about late-binding again, functools.partial() or lambda x=x, y=y: ... would be the correct way to define the command

[rose vapor]

true, tuples work

you know, that works

100%

Im gonna work on adding callables and see how that works, but I know ill be back here with questions lol

[rose vapor]

@royal cape I just figured out I can use f strings to combine my commands with this code, I knew about f strings from my last app but I didnt realize it would work here lol. I am so happy, I am learning.

[rose vapor]

Ok, im running into an issue, how can I turn tuples into separate outputs for separate buttons?
(ex: Blade = 20, Sign = 10, Spring = 5)

I cant seem to find a way to make them use separate outputs without making 10 functions of myClick()

[royal cape]

did you use functools.partial() to pass the values to your function?

[rose vapor]

idek what that is

[royal cape]

it's the same solution i used in this example

!e ```py
import functools

def greet(name, age):
print(f"Hello {name}! You are {age} years old.")

greet_emily = functools.partial(greet, "Emily")
greet_emily(25)```

[proven basin]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

Hello Emily! You are 25 years old.

[rose vapor]

this kinda confuses me

[royal cape]

functools.partial is a way to create a function from another function with some or all of its parameters already provided

so you'd give each button a function that remembers the value for its corresponding item

same idea as lambda: myClick(xyz) if that's what you initially tried

[rose vapor]

How would I use it in my setup?

[royal cape]

it would be written quite similarly to how my example used it: py ITEMS = ("Dirt", "Wood", "Stone", "Sand") ... def append_tree_row(value): id = tree.insert("", "end", text=value) tree.see(id) ... for column, item in enumerate(ITEMS): command = functools.partial(append_tree_row, item) button = Button(controls, text=f"Add {item}", command=command) ...

[rose vapor]

Yeah but idk what to change to make it work with mine

copy and paste isnt enough

[royal cape]

right, understanding what it does will help you know how to use it

[full mountain]

what is the best ui library for python programs

[rose vapor]

I like FreeSimpleGUI as its easy to use and understand, but aparently its the worst lol. I am using Tkinter but its confusing right now

[full mountain]

ic but what do professional companies use?

[rose vapor]

idk

[full mountain]

to make a really good looking ui

[rose vapor]

im new to python so idek

[royal cape]

i think you'd usually see PyQt/PySide for more advanced desktop applications

[full mountain]

lemme check it out

[full mountain]

it looks really interesting , thnxss

[royal cape]

but distributing applications in python is a bit complicated since python doesn't compile to machine code

[full mountain]

then how they do it?

we have to make a packet manager?

to install everything?

[royal cape]

tekgar has a nice post about this in https://canary.discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1162864668105244782

[rose vapor]

Whats the point of throwing up an error about floats and integers if the app doesnt actually fix them? We are back to last night with this BS error loop

[full mountain]

very interesting stuff
so much to learn

thnxs

[royal cape]

what's the error message?

[rose vapor]

Ive tried like 100 different things and it just keeps fucking up

It works when you use numbers but if you try to make it a variable it just loops an error and set and float

[royal cape]

{} is the syntax for defining set literals, you probably don't want to write that

[rose vapor]

or is it brackets?

half of the things I wanna know arent available online anyway

Ive looked up tutorials on tuples, and there isnt a video longer than 3 minutes which just tells you that there is a function called "tuple" then they move on to other stuff

"There is a function called tuple which is similar to a list but its immutable. Any way moving onto writing an entire app from scratch"

Like thanks -_-

Sorry to vent, I get angered easily with stuff that doesnt work when I tell it to

[royal cape]

yea, jumping too far can easily land you in a hodgepodge of problems, but at the same time the internet is full of mid/subpar tutorials and resources

personally my start in learning python was through official documentation, some corey schafer videos, and a folder full of scripts practising individual things at a time

[rose vapor]

Actually I realized im setting this list/tuple to the wrong buttons anyway

doesnt do me good if I dont tell the user what theyre giving before they get an item in return

[rose vapor]

I have made 1 app so far in my coding time, I made a simple To-Do app that stores your input and reads it back when you open the program again

Im not trying to jump too far ahead, but i paid for an online course and im just practicing on my own currently but it sucks because there arent any videos on what I work on

[royal cape]

A Byte of Python might be useful to you, ive heard it's more suited for people that already have some general knowledge of how programs are written

here's their section about tuples: https://python.swaroopch.com/data_structures.html#tuple

there's also the official tutorial, for example their page on sets:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#sets

[rose vapor]

Honestly I might just be jumping too far, but idk where else to start learning.

[digital rose]

Anyone Idea how to make something like this?

[royal cape]

you might find it easier to start off with print() and input(), make something that solves your problem, figure out what data structures are useful in solving your problem (lists, dictionaries, etc.), and then rewrite your command-line interface with a tkinter GUI

[digital rose]

Where can I learn to code ui's with customtkinter?

[rose vapor]

I also realized tuple isnt mutable whicbh gave me the errors I saw, so I changed it from tuple to list and the errors didnt come back, but now I have to set new functions.

My only issue with learning is that either I never remember anything, or the courses I watch or pay for lack alot of the basics or lack enough explanation.

[royal cape]

for the former, you should practise the concepts as soon as you learn about them and try to develop a general understanding of how to use them, for example if you were learning dictionaries, you might ask yourself: What do dictionaries do? What data might I store in a dictionary? What ways can I define a dictionary? How do I access and set values?

for understanding error messages you can apply a similar process of answering questions about it, e.g. What code caused this error? What variables are involved? Is this error a simple typo, or a misunderstanding in how I'm meant to use something? Where can I find official documentation on the thing I'm using?

[rose vapor]

Well once I learn something, its usually easy to use afterwards.
There is one exception tho, I watched a video where the guy explains a function:
def myClick(number)
current = e.get()
e.delete(0, END)
e.insert(0, str(current) + str(number))

But when I go to use e.delete, Tkinter and Python tell me that the .delete() function doesnt exist

so I get stuck like that and so now I have to go google how to use a function that should already be working

so it makes coding harder when functions and codes dont work out of the box as they should

[royal cape]

getting an AttributeError might mean you're trying to access an attribute/method on the wrong object

[rose vapor]

The tutorial I am using

The function does not exist

[royal cape]

right, Label is a class, not an entry widget

[rose vapor]

so how can I make the Label delete so I can add a new one?

Im trying to display 2 buttons

Button1 and Button2

I want Button1 to display when clicked, then when you press Button2 it deletes Button1 text and displays its own text

[royal cape]

.delete() is specific to entry widgets and only affects the text inside that entry, for deleting the widget entirely you would use .destroy()

though FYI you can also change a label's text without destroying it, e.g. ```py
app = Tk()

label = Label(app, text="Hello world!")
label.grid()

command = lambda: label.configure(text="Button clicked!")
button = Button(app, text="Click me", command=command)
button.grid()```

see also https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/concepts.html at Configuration Options section:

# create a button, passing two options:
>>> button = ttk.Button(root, text="Hello", command="buttonpressed")
>>> button.grid()
# check the current value of the text option:
>>> button['text']
'Hello'
# change the value of the text option:
>>> button['text'] = 'goodbye'
# another way to do the same thing:
>>> button.configure(text='goodbye')
# check the current value of the text option:
>>> button['text']
'goodbye'```

[digital rose]

How can I load an image into ui using customtkinter?

[rose vapor]

yeah as if I would know that lmao

Nothing online tells you that exists, I have to come here to find out

[rose vapor]

What is Tkiners "window" command? I am gonna try some Case functions'

[blazing granite]

in label kword: img= ImageTK.PhotoImage(Image(path))

Im doing this from memory so double check but this is the basic way I did it when I had to

another thing is that I'm pretty sure you're not forced to use Labels but it was the easiest implementation for me

[digital rose]

Alr, heading to sleep as it is 1 am for me, will try it in the morning. Thank you

[blazing granite]

same lol

[potent oracle]

Does anyone know how to compile into a standalone file via nuitka, which would work without .py files?
I tried -onefile, -statalone.

[royal cape]

im not sure what window command is either, "window" is the term Tk uses to describe widgets

[echo condor]

nuitka --standalone --onefile

[rose vapor]

Does anyone know how to use lists with buttons/functions?

im looking for a variable list that changes depending on which button you press. So Button1 would be 20, Button2 would be 5, etc

But instead of having 50 lists, I want one that uses variables or functions

I can do it with Entry boxes and Input boxes but not with functions or buttons

[night jewel]

I am struggling to find good tech choice on developing frontend , while backend will be implemented using python flask.
(front end will have more datatables and graphs)
Can you suggest ? 🧐

[sleek hollow]

Can you give a bit more info about what you're trying to do?

[night jewel]

in short, i have some data in db related to stock , I want to fetch that data with API and display on UI. Also show some graphs with analysis

[sleek hollow]

Ahh I was replying to TheGameBoi, but PySide6 might be a good option for your frontend

[final path]

Do you all think Reflex is way better than Streamlit?

[rose vapor]

So I have 3 buttons, each with a different amount set to them.

Button1 has 20 coins and 1 dollar, Button2 has 10 coins and 2 dollars, Button3 has 5 coins and 3 dollars. I have a list made so that it will accept whatever is assigned to it, what I want is to have the list change variables depending on which button is pressed. So if you press Button1 you will select 20 coins and 1 dollar. But then you press Button2 and the list deletes the previous info and adds 10 coins and 2 dollars. That way I can call upon that list and use what the list contains in it.

[hoary canopy]

Just curious, what are some ways you guys preform data validation for entry and combo box widgets?

[sleek hollow]

I wouldn't bother dynamically updating that list when buttons are pressed. I'd simply query which buttons are selected when the time is right to access that data

[noble shore]

hi, i wanted to add keyauth to my code but im unable to do it, cause i have never tried it before if you can help me dm or ping me

[civic tendon]

Is PySide2 simply "better" than using Tk or is it just more convenient?

[coarse fiber]

alguien sabe usar figma

[digital rose]

Which has more benefits to using? PySide6 or PyQt5

[sleek hollow]

It's far better in the sense that you have more control

[digital rose]

Is there any plan to improve tkinter?

For example, html has auto scrollbars. That would be nice.

Also, I think it would be nice if you could set every property of a widget in the configure method.

I think some key bindings could be built-in also, such as mouse wheel for scrollable widgets. Instead of having to manually configure that.

Sometimes I think there is a little confusion between configuring the widget in pack and configuring it in the instancing of the widget.

I think the ttk theme and style is pretty good, though it might be missing some options such as transparency or configuring the highlight color of a button. I was able to create a nice dark theme but some things I cannot customize.

I do have 1 really great thing to say, though! The pydroid IDLE is GREAT. The ironic thing is that tkinter looks and runs better on android than it does on the desktop/laptop! Hahahaha

I did not expect that, but the controls work great on mobile touch screen.

[tribal path]

Tk being a wrapper for tcl (which you likely haven't heard of) is a fairly old that predates python even. It's effectively feature locked outside of ttk.

As you are using pydroid3 there are other libraries there which would be more flexible and the app comes with examples to showcase them

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[tight ice]

I'm not sure if this is the right use of them -
I want to perform many cpu calculations on an array. Can I create multiple QTimers (lets say 20 timers) to process different parts of the array?

Ie

for i in range(5000):
  arr[i] = ...

getting split into

start = 2000  # eg
for i in range(250):
  arr[i + start] = ...

My issue is I don't know if this is a) how qtimers are supposed to be used (should I use threading instead?) and b) how would i pass which thread number the QTimer is - As in, I don't know how to pass arguments to QTimer

[tight ice]

Basically rendering bunch of entities (circles) in a QGraphicsScene - Not sure if there is a better way

I'm just doing

 for ent in self.entities:
    x = random.randint(0, 1) * (-1 if random.randint(0, 1) == 0 else 1)
    y = random.randint(0, 1) * (-1 if random.randint(0, 1) == 0 else 1)
    ent.setPos(ent.x() + x, ent.y() + y)

For perf testing rn - is there a more efficient way to update positions?

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[digital rose]

Async and generators

[tight ice]

I don't think I want to make my code asnychronous because im also using pyqtgraph + I can't imagine its required

[tight ice]

@sleek hollow apologies for the ping but do you have any ideas here?

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[digital rose]

KDE 1.0 IDE interface

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[digital rose]

well glad I got warned not to do that

already sent 1 in another channel

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[tall verge]

i want to make like this cycle progress bar

how to make it?

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[past coyote]

Do you think I can consider this a portfolio-level project? I'm a beginner/intermediate in Python, but this is my first useful project that might please someone other than myself lol.
It's a url downloader (YouTube, tiktok, Instagram, etc...)
Hey what do you say? (Translator)

[spiral apex]

!ytdl

[proven basin]

Our youtube-dl, or equivalents, policy

Per Python Discord's Rule 5, we are unable to assist with questions related to youtube-dl, pytube, or other YouTube video downloaders, as their usage violates YouTube's Terms of Service.

For reference, this usage is covered by the following clauses in YouTube's TOS, as of 2021-03-17:

The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:

1. access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as specifically permitted by the Service;  (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

3. access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except: (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file; (b) with YouTube’s prior written permission; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

9. use the Service to view or listen to Content other than for personal, non-commercial use (for example, you may not publicly screen videos or stream music from the Service)

[past coyote]

Dude, I'm studying lol

Why is ytdl malicious? It's a video downloader, it's available everywhere

[spiral apex]

This is off-topic for this channel

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[hexed lantern]

I made a thing

It is very jank

and very spaghetti

[proven pewter]

guys, this command will take the first character from the cursor's line right? (Tkinter) ```py
cursor_pos = self.textwidget.index(tk.INSERT)
line_before_cursor = self.textwidget.get(f'{cursor_pos} linestart', cursor_pos)

[past coyote]

Don't use Tkinter, use PyQt5

PyQt5 accept CSS styles

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[nocturne urchin]

Hey, i wish to create gui specifically accordion menu. Using data from db, so need it to be able to be modified at runtime. shoot ur recommendations

[echo condor]

Depends if you want something quick and easy tkinter if you want something better with better performance and feeling pyqt or pyside

[nocturne urchin]

i wont say its quick and easy, cause it will be the interface for adding into db, editing and etc

[echo condor]

I meant quick to develop

Doesn't sound like a complicated project

[vale karma]

how would I read information from an application?

[rare verge]

Does anyone have a good example of how i can make a entry bar for path with a button where you can browse in your files to select the path where you want it

For tkinter

[flint forge]

hey yall in on mac and im trying to use tkinter but keep getting this error, does anyone know how to fix it?
import _tkinter as tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

[royal cape]

i happen to have a file entry class in one of my apps that you can look at:
https://github.com/thegamecracks/dum-dum-irc/blob/main/src/dumdum/client/file_entry.py
the important bit is filedialog.askopenfilename(), that invokes the native Tk command for opening the file selection dialog

see also:
https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/windows.html#dialogs
https://docs.python.org/3/library/dialog.html#module-tkinter.filedialog
https://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/getOpenFile.htm
it's not particularly obvious, but the last two links show what keyword arguments you can pass like parent, title, filetypes, etc.

[royal cape]

i don't use mac, but you might want to see the guide on tkdocs:
https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/install.html#install-mac-python
generally if it can't import _tkinter, that means python was compiled without Tcl/Tk, so you probably want to use the official python.org installer which apparently has it by default

[worthy sphinx]

I want to build a console application with python. It should be a one page menue like midnight commander. I need to select values from a table and change them and have them auto updating from a server. maybe a graph that will show a history as a "popup". What would you chose? Is the rich library still the one I should take in 2024?

[worthy sphinx]

Seems like textual will work better

[nocturne urchin]

u think its quick to develop? i dont

[echo condor]

Up to you, anyway this doesn't invalidate what I said about the choice of the front

[past fractal]

Hoping this is the right place for my question. (Terminal related)

I want to write a python library that allows me to print FULLY CUSTOM ICONS or IMAGES to console or file. 8x8 scale ideally.

I know this is something that is not easy to do.. but if has any form of possibility I want to be pointed in the right direction.

What would be involved in accomplishing this?

(Edit: just to clarify it does need to show as an image / icon and terminal and needs to be able to auto scale down pre existing images. To my knowledge with Pillow and Climage combined this is currently not possible within Python.)

[royal cape]

!pip rich-pixels seems like a decent library for this, but you'll probably need hand drawn pixel art if you want the best quality out of it

[proven basin]

rich-pixels v3.0.1

A Rich-compatible library for writing pixel images and ASCII art to the terminal.

Released on <t:1711791472:D>.

[royal cape]

example usage: ```py
import sys
from rich_pixels import Pixels
from rich.console import Console
from PIL import Image

width = int(sys.argv[1])
sampling = Image.Resampling[sys.argv[2].upper()]

console = Console()
with Image.open(sys.argv[3]) as image:
image = image.resize((width, width), sampling)
pixels = Pixels.from_image(image)
console.print(pixels)```

[past fractal]

OOOOOOO omg okay I will definitely check that out ty!! Does it show in CMD or normal terminal windows as well? Run.exe for python

[royal cape]

hm, regular command prompt doesn't seem to render those colored pixels correctly unless you use colorama to fix it, e.g. py import colorama colorama.just_fix_windows_console() ...

[past fractal]

Ahh okay all good I'll definitely try to work it out 😱😱 appreciate it a lot!!!

[hoary canopy]

Does tkinter have a gui builder like qt5?

[echo condor]

There is an unofficial 20$ gui builder for customtkinter that's all I know

[hoary canopy]

Do you happen to have a link to it?

Nvm. I dont wan to replicate what someone else is doing. Im going to make my own from the ground up.

[echo condor]

You're gonna make your own tkinter gui builder?

[hoary canopy]

Yeah, I started playing with some layout methods last nights but wanted to make sure someone else hasn’t already done it. But since they are charging 20 bucks, I’m gonna just stick to my plan.

So far I’ve tried using grid and place to make a sectioned screen like unity or godot but I think it will be easier to go the route of like Adobe with floating windows since I’m so a custom to using place.

[echo condor]

Yeah plus it has a lot of bugs and not practical as it converts always using place and x, y so the app you end up with is not scalable nor practical. You'll for sure find a lot of interested people

[hoary canopy]

Yeah, part of me trying the place and grid method was to get use to scaling apps so I can include it. I’ll probably tinker with it more to figure it out. Gonna start with the basics of buttons, entries and labels for my first release and eventually work my way to to tk, ttk, tkcalendar and autocomplete.

If you’re interested in following , my code will be open source https://github.com/msrogers2015/TKBuilder. After I get the basic 3 widgets, I think I’ll link my coffee to help with expenses but it won’t be a requirement ever.

[echo condor]

Cool, I'll definitely give it a look even though I switched all my apps outside tkinter because of performance being very limited

I know for a fact that's a great project that would help hundreds of people

[proven basin]

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[hoary canopy]

Well was trying to figure out drag and drop and stumbled across Formation Studio. It looks amazing and already have years of development and multiple developers. I guess there goes my project lol.

[vestal frigate]

Can I see some of yalls UI's

[vestal frigate]

Basic but cool

[lean copper]

Hi, your little software is epic, btw did you only use Python for the interfaces ?
if yes what library did you use and is it multi-OS ?

[chrome river]

Gtag reference

Yea lemme get a pic of my ui rq

[vestal frigate]

wow how did u do that

[vestal frigate]

cool

anyone got any tips to start in the #user-interfaces industry

also what do i use to code

[chrome river]

Personally I use eclipse ide but I wouldn't recommend for a beginner because of the way you set up python with it, just Google it or smth

[hoary canopy]

I use visual studio and clickteam as a makeshift gui layout tool for tkinter. There are some other ones like foundation studio i recently found out about, another one for ctk but its 20 bucks and im thinking about starting my own since neither one has responsive layout as a feature.

[vestal frigate]

ayo can someone give me some ideas to make ive already made a yt downloader, unit converter and calc

[hoary canopy]

Try a small inventory system or POS.

!projects or check out this list.

[tight ice]

i'm incredibly confused

I have this function,

def create_entities(self) -> None:
        self.entities: list[list[float | QtWidgets.QGraphicsEllipseItem]] = []

        colour = QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)
        brush = QtGui.QBrush()
        brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.BrushStyle.SolidPattern)
        pen = QtGui.QPen(colour)
        pen.setColor(colour)
        brush.setColor(colour)

        # for _ in range(self.entity_count):
        #     x = random.randint(0, int(self.w // 2)) * (-1 if random.randint(0, 1) == 0 else 1)
        #     y = random.randint(0, int(self.h // 2)) * (-1 if random.randint(0, 1) == 0 else 1)
        #     ecl = self.simulation.addEllipse(int(x), int(y), 3, 3, pen, brush=brush)
        #     assert ecl is not None
        #     self.entities.append([x, y, ecl])
        print(self.h, self.w, -self.w / 2 + (self.w * 0.025), -self.h / 2 + self.h * 0.03, 30, 30, pen, brush)
        self.simulation.addEllipse(-self.w / 2 + (self.w * 0.025), -self.h / 2 + self.h * 0.03, 30, 30, pen, brush=brush)

When the code shown above includes the comments, the ellipse is rendered in the centre:

When the code is uncommented, this is the rendered big elipse

I have ran this about 50 times just commenting and uncommenting so there is 0 chance its anything other than the code above effecting

self.simulation.addEllipse(-self.w / 2 + (self.w * 0.025), -self.h / 2 + self.h * 0.03, 30, 30, pen, brush=brush)

My theories are

• pen or brush is getting changed causing ellipse location to change
• somehow adding other elipses affects position of other ellipses

[tight ice]

It can't be the pen/brush because redefining it before the ellipse still results in this

simulation is a QGraphicsScene

So bamboozled its unreal

[tight ice]

And the location of the ball is literally changing position ever so slightly when I rerun it

Do other shapes interact, maybe push other shapes around ?

Like does addEllipse act from (0, 0) being the centre, top left, what model does it use

[vestal frigate]

can u show me how u made that

[vestal frigate]

how can I make this better: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/S5IQ

[vestal frigate]

where is the best place to learn user interfaces and how do i do uis

[vestal frigate]

like this one

[sleek hollow]

that can be quite easily achieved in pyqt

https://www.pythonguis.com/

[vestal frigate]

can u tell me or show me

[sleek hollow]

this website has a ton of great tutorials

[vestal frigate]

ok im using it now

thanks

[vestal frigate]

its telling me how to do it but how do I actually learn it

thats probably a dumb question but i just want to know

[echo condor]

You learn by doing it

[vestal frigate]

it doesnt make sense

it just shows me this

i cant really learn if i copy it out

[tight ice]

Update in case anyone wants it:
Setting the screne rect,
self.simulation.setSceneRect(-self.w // 2, -self.h // 2, self.w, self.h)
Fixes that issue

[past coyote]

I used PyQt5, but I'm improving to PyQt6, I'm redoing the entire software because I had problems compiling the code

[past coyote]

I used PyQt5 lib to UI

[vestal frigate]

wow really

[past coyote]

y

[vestal frigate]

cuz i tried PyQt5 aswell to do a similar thing and this is best i got

and chagpt did most of it can i cant code python for s***

[past coyote]

It's like that until now

I use a separate css file for styles

[vestal frigate]

did u use visual studio 2022 forr the ui

[past coyote]

put this in your main python to load the specific theme from a folder

[vestal frigate]

ye but how did u make the main layout

[past coyote]

i code on vs

[vestal frigate]

vsc or vs

[past coyote]

vsc

[vestal frigate]

oh

[past coyote]

the code is fine, grid lol, but I simply did it in grid layouts and vbox, except for the icon that I placed through the move itself

[vestal frigate]

this is my code what am i doing wrong: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/TYYA

[past coyote]

I can make the code available if you want, but it is incomplete, as I said, I am improving it so that the compilation can be done without any errors

[vestal frigate]

i dont want to skid ur work

[past coyote]

lol

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RTKQ

see my code

[vestal frigate]

can i get the css files and is there any modules i need to import

[past coyote]

is query module

[vestal frigate]

ok so its pip install query

[past coyote]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/DQKA

[past coyote]

no no

is python file

[vestal frigate]

?

oh

how do i compile all these seperate scripts

[past coyote]

I'll upload it to github and you can download it

[vestal frigate]

k

[past coyote]

pyinstaller automatically compiles them all automatically, even though they are externa

[vestal frigate]

do i need to install pyinstaller or do i already have it

i just checked its installed

[past coyote]

you need it, but for now you don't need to compile it, just run the main.py code and it will work without having to compile it

[vestal frigate]

k

whats ur github

[past coyote]

one moment

[vestal frigate]

dw found ya

[past coyote]

https://github.com/yzee4/tempSoundyz

is temporary repo

After you clone it on your PC, please navigate to the directory where the files are located and do a pip install -r requirements.txt

to run, go to 'src' and do python main.py

@vestal frigate running?

[vestal frigate]

ye

i messed around with it for abit

but i just wanna know where did u learn to do that

who/what taught u

[past coyote]

First I read the pyqt6 documentation to see if that was what I wanted, then I watched some videos on YouTube, and the parts that I couldn't solve I asked chatgpt for help (although it only made the project worse in the future)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SelawmXHtPg&list=PL3JVwFmb_BnSOj_OtnKlsc2c7Jcs6boyB

[vestal frigate]

ye but like where did u learn to code #user-interfaces

[past coyote]

better tutorial playlist to learn

[vestal frigate]

oh

k you

ty*

[past coyote]

alone

[vestal frigate]

?

[past coyote]

I didn't watch videos for programming, I just looked through everything and developed some projects lol

sorry my bad english

[vestal frigate]

fair

[past coyote]

i use translator

[vestal frigate]

thats alright

what country are you from

[past coyote]

Go to my github and see the Sainwha project, it was one of the first, it is an attack on internet networks made in Python, but it only runs on Linux

[past coyote]

Brazil

[vestal frigate]

oh cool ive always wanted to go there

[past coyote]

do not want

[vestal frigate]

why

[past coyote]

because it's bad, don't fall for these illusions from the outside world, Brazil isn't happy at all

[vestal frigate]

oh

[past coyote]

The biggest dream of a Brazilian who thinks about something good for their future is to leave here lol, that's why I study programming precisely to work abroad

[vestal frigate]

oh

well when u start working abroad come to the UK it is still rough but some communities are great

[past coyote]

I understand, for us any country that isn't from South America is great, I'd rather work as a waiter in London than as a businessman in Brazil lol

[vestal frigate]

lol

btw the guy in the video said to get Qt designer but I cant

[past coyote]

The technological community in Brazil is not encouraged by the government, in fact it seems to be quite the opposite

[vestal frigate]

do i need it?

[vestal frigate]

mhm

[past coyote]

like this? I know they have a license for sale, but for normal use I don't think so

[vestal frigate]

alr

[vestal frigate]

@past coyote im following the tut and it says theres an error can u take a look ```python
import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLineEdit, QPushButton, QTextEdit, QVBoxLayout
from PyQt6.QtGui import QIcon

class MyApp(QWidget):
def init(self):
super().init()
self.setWindowTitle('Learner UI')
self.setWindowIcon(QIcon('pfp.ico'))
self.resize(500, 350) #width, height

layout = QVBoxLayout()
self.setLayout(layout)

#widgets
self.inputField = QLineEdit()
button = QPushButton()
self.output = QTextEdit()

layout.addWidget(self.inputField)
layout.addWidget(button)
layout.addWidget(self.output)

app = QApplication([])

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

window = MyApp()
window.show()

app.exec()```

@past coyote ?

[past coyote]

import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLineEdit, QPushButton, QTextEdit, QVBoxLayout
from PyQt6.QtGui import QIcon

class MyApp(QWidget):
def init(self):
super().init()
self.setWindowTitle('Learner UI')
self.setWindowIcon(QIcon('pfp.ico'))
self.resize(500, 350) #width, height

    layout = QVBoxLayout()
    self.setLayout(layout)

    #widgets
    self.inputField = QLineEdit()
    button = QPushButton()
    self.output = QTextEdit()

    layout.addWidget(self.inputField)
    layout.addWidget(button)
    layout.addWidget(self.output)

app = QApplication([])

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

window = MyApp()
window.show()

app.exec()

@vestal frigate

[vestal frigate]

ty

[vestal frigate]

i kind of carried on the the same error is still there can u look again ```python
import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLineEdit, QPushButton, QTextEdit, QVBoxLayout
from PyQt6.QtGui import QIcon

class MyApp(QWidget):
def init(self):
super().init()
self.setWindowTitle('Learner UI')
self.setWindowIcon(QIcon('pfp.ico'))
self.resize(500, 350) #width, height

layout = QVBoxLayout()
self.setLayout(layout)

#widgets
self.inputField = QLineEdit()
button = QPushButton('&Say Hello', clicked=self.sayHello)
# button.clicked.connect(self.sayHello)
self.output = QTextEdit()

layout.addWidget(self.inputField)
layout.addWidget(button)
layout.addWidget(self.output)



def sayHello(self):
    inputText = self.inputField.text()
    self.output.setText('Hello {0}'.format(inputText))

app = QApplication([])

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
app.setStyleSheet('''
QWidget {
font-size: 25px;
}

QPushButton {
    font-size: 20px;               
}

''')

window = MyApp()
window.show()

app.exec()```

[past coyote]

you are not putting it in the right place

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/4P6A

try?

[vestal frigate]

I'm on mobile so I cant test it but ill test it in the morning. What did u change?

[past coyote]

I put self inside the function, you were defined wrong, everything that is a UI element has to be inside the def init(self)

[sleek hollow]

You need to learn the concepts first which is what is being taught. How to create a window, how to work with layouts, how to create widgets, how to connect functions to widget interactions. Learn those concepts, then play around with them to make something new

[vestal frigate]

ok ty

[sleek hollow]

gotta walk before you can run

[vestal frigate]

im working on data scrapers rn

[sleek hollow]

and definitely avoid using chatgpt

you definitely won't learn anything if you just copy what chatgpt does

[vestal frigate]

yeah i gathered lol

[sleek hollow]

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks

I've always liked this github blog post

it talks about 7 GUIs you should try and make, starting from easy to getting into harder concepts

[vestal frigate]

ok let me have a look

[sleek hollow]

It's not specific to any GUI framework, it's just conceptual ideas

[vestal frigate]

it looks good ill do it later

[hushed tangle]

does anyone write in gtk

[lean copper]

I see, that amazing
Thanks you btw

[digital echo]

Why my text lower part get's cut off?

For some reason, tall characters get cutted in my ctkinter application, like the letter g. The red square is a ctklabel, with a text of 'Penguins', as you can see it easily can fit so i dont understand why it's cutted. i can change height or grid ipady, it doesnt fix the problem.

Code:
title_font2 = ('Helvetica', 18, 'bold')

set_title = CTkLabel(w_frame, text='Penguins', font=title_font2, width=220, height=60, anchor='w', text_color='white', fg_color='red')

set_title.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=10, pady=10, sticky='wens', columnspan=2)

This is python ctkinter / tkinter package code issue

[worthy kiln]

aynone interested in earning a tip holla at me, i have a small app and I need 2 more features, but do not have the time to do it 😦

[lean nymph]

Anyone experienced in pyqt?

[sleek hollow]

You should ask whatever question you might have instead of waiting for an expert to come by

[lean nymph]

Thing is I don't have a specific question in mind, I've been watching some vids and tutorials on it but don't really understand how things work between qt and python. Was hoping someone else explaining it might be helpful, chatgpt isn't helping much for me

[pulsar scarab]

hey, what's your issue

[past coyote]

Don't use Tkinter use PyQt6

[sleek hollow]

Pyqt/pyside are simply wrappers that allow you to access the class of Qt

All the class/method syntax is the same

[lean nymph]

i'm not really familiar with qt itself

[rose vapor]

Coding makes no sense sometimes

How do i fix this circlejerk error?

[hushed tangle]

oh i don't have any.. was just wondering if anyone on this server actually uses gtk.. looks like most use qt

[pulsar scarab]

i don't really know, i'm not that active on here, but hey
you're welcome :D

i do some heavy Gtk development

[pulsar scarab]

either on the high level perspective or the lower level ones

check out my projects, most of them are based on GObject / Gtk (mainly 3)

[sleek hollow]

@signal zealot

using frames and pack

by keeping a separate frame, the width of the textbox will no longer affect the top label and listbox

[hoary canopy]

Remove “functions” from the button. It seems like you are referencing the same file. If so, you don’t have to import it.

[past coyote]

a temporary folder for each session, do you think this is recommended?

[azure trout]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/5NDVYCFCNFNWEK2NVBCFN55IKA

Can anyone help with the syntax errors I've been experiencing

[spiral apex]

Looks like you're missing a lot of commas in your fish data

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/5NDVYCFCNFNWEK2NVBCFN55IKA#1L805-L805 and you've over indented your class statement

[forest yoke]

is their anyone that can help me with a python rust code raid macro

[limber totem]

my first gui in custom tkinter, for a autoclicker that im making, what do you think guys ?

also, I was watching some video about old gui designs and have a question if something like this is still possible ?

or if this was doable only on older windows versions

[azure trout]

How do I fix

[remote flower]

can anyone help me integrating py code of chatbot with pre buit website ??

[lean hinge]

Hi all, just curious if any flet experts know how I might be able to turn the Container holding the chat messages in the screenshot into a scrollable box that takes up all of the available height on the screen (besides the input at the bottom)? Setting the Row and/or Container to expand=True doesn't produce the desired result.

Here's the code for this view: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/HAHA

[wooden jackal]

#1258237794879275080 can anyone look at it please it is my last step to make main page and it will be done

[sullen sparrow]

dm me

[proven basin]

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[old shoal]

hello. whats the word around making a great polished gui nowadays? i tried pyqt, ttkbootstrap, and i still tbh want my app to look more polished. appreciate any inputs

[sleek hollow]

What do you mean by polished? Do you have an example?

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[final estuary]

idk if this is really a ui question, but I am encountering while creating a UI.

TLDR; I am processing epub based on their TOC and have created an elaborate rules-based system for determining which should be processed by default and where to put the split points

my problem is that its a level of complexity every change is messing something else up, but I don't always find out immediately..

so I guess I need to make tests for all these books so every change I make is evaluated against the ideal output

anyways, this is getting deeper into development than any project I have attempted before, and I thought maybe some folk with experience would have some ideas or something

should be more of a #unit-testing type of question?

[proven basin]

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[proper escarp]

my first Tkinter project - coffee vending machine 🙂

[proven basin]

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[plain gale]

That looks really nice! I should try Tkinter too, I didn't know you could make it pretty

[lean hinge]

Is publishing a flet web app for client-side rendering just completely broken until httptools starts being pure python again (probably never)?

[proper escarp]

Thank you ☺️ customizing things to look cute adds more fun to the experience for sure

[proven basin]

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[waxen lodge]

why hello there

[high schooner]

Hey everyone, im trying to make a pretty simple flowchart useing pytq5.

However, I can't figure out how to add widgets to my main window without useing a layout

I would like to avoid useing a layout due to the dynamic nature of a flowchart

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

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

        # Create the central widget and set its layout
        self.window = QWidget()
        self.layout = QStackedLayout()
        self.window.setLayout(self.layout)
        self.layout.setCurrentIndex(3)

        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 500) 

        self.add_label = imageLabel('add.png', self.add_rect)

        self.layout.addWidget(rectWidget())
        self.layout.addWidget(self.add_label)
        
        self.setCentralWidget(self.window)

        self.show()

        self.layout.addWidget(rectWidget())

class imageLabel(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, image, func=False):
        super().__init__()
        self.label = QLabel(self)
        pixmap = QPixmap(image)
        self.label.setPixmap(pixmap)

        self.move(100,100)

        self.func = func

    def mousePressEvent(self, event):
        if self.func != None:
            self.func()

     

class rectWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        self.is_drawing = True  # Flag to track drawing state
        self.rect_pos = [400,400] # Starting position of the rectangle
        self.rect1 = None 

    def paintEvent(self, event: QPaintEvent) -> None:
        super().paintEvent(event)
        
        # Draw rectangle if drawing is active
        if self.is_drawing:
            QP = QPainter(self)
            QP.begin(self)
            QP.setPen(Qt.red)
            self.rect1 = QRect(self.rect_pos[0]-50, self.rect_pos[1]-50, 100, 100)
            QP.drawRect(self.rect1)
            QP.end()

        if event.button() == Qt.LeftButton and self.rect1 == None:
            self.is_drawing = True
            self.rect_pos = [event.pos().x(), event.pos().y()]
            self.repaint()

    def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
        mouse_pos = [event.pos().x(), event.pos().y()]
        if(mouse_pos[0] > self.rect1.x() and mouse_pos[0] < self.rect1.x()+self.rect1.width() and mouse_pos[1] > self.rect1.y() and mouse_pos[1] < self.rect1.y() + self.rect1.height()):
            self.repaint()
            self.rect_pos = [mouse_pos[0], mouse_pos[1]]

        


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = MyWindow()
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())````

[fast finch]

can u provide source code

[proper escarp]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SMLQ

[sleek hollow]

If you want a flowchart and you don't want to use layouts, you should probably be using a QGraphicsScene to display your flowchart shapes

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[sinful kettle]

I'm trying to build a scrollable gui for my software. I'm using Tkinter and CustomTkinter together. What I tried doing was creating a ScrollableFrame that covered the entire page with the grid and sticky system, and then parent my widgets to that ScrollableFrame. Turns out that ScrollableFrames completely break the grid system, you just can't grid inside of them. Is there another way to do it that I'm missing? I'm really new to all of this.

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[high schooner]

Hey, thank you for your suggestion, I added it and it seems to be working better then beofre. Only issuse is now, the rect widget and image_label classes events are not being called for whatever reason. Sorry, I'm still new to Pytq5 and learning.

[royal cape]

can you provide a minimal reproducible example of the issue? i dont use customtkinter much, but with a quick test, grid seemed to work fine: ```py
app = CTk()
frame = CTkScrollableFrame(app)
frame.pack(expand=True, fill="both")

for y in range(5):
for x in range(5):
frame.grid_columnconfigure(x, weight=1)
button = CTkButton(frame, text=f"{y * 5 + x}")
button.grid(row=y, column=x, sticky="ew", padx=5, pady=5)

app.mainloop()```

[sinful kettle]

I must be doing something wrong then! Lemme boot up the pc and I'll send you right away.

this is my code. no matter the changes i make, "inputbox" sticks to the top. it was working perfectly with regular frames

app = customtkinter.CTk()
app.geometry("800x480")
app.columnconfigure(0, weight=10)
app.rowconfigure(0, weight=10)
outer_frame = customtkinter.CTkScrollableFrame(app, fg_color="blue")
outer_frame.grid(row=0,column=0, sticky="nsew")
outer_frame.columnconfigure(0,weight=1)
outer_frame.rowconfigure(0,weight=10)
outer_frame.rowconfigure(1, weight=2)
inputbox = customtkinter.CTkTextbox(master=outer_frame, width=1300, height=40, activate_scrollbars=False)
inputbox.grid(row=0,column=0,sticky="s")

[royal cape]

hm, horizontal alignment with grid_columnconfigure works, but not grid_rowconfigure, and the reverse becomes true if orientation="horizontal" is passed to the scrollable frame... i guess in a way it's intentional so content isn't forced to fit in a specific height, but it's not obvious if they provide a way to force a specific height for the scroll region so it knows how far down your text box should be placed

[sinful kettle]

oh, that's..peculiar

are you aware of a workaround to this? maybe i shouldn't use tkinter in the first place. idk it's the one the first tutorial that popped up was using xd

[royal cape]

i guess you could use some internal attributes to do it, as in: ```py
frame._parent_canvas.itemconfigure(frame._create_window_id, height=3000)
frame.grid_columnconfigure(0, weight=1) # allow stretching horizontally
frame.grid_rowconfigure(0, weight=19) # leave a 1/20th gap from bottom
frame.grid_rowconfigure(1, weight=1)

text = CTkTextbox(frame, height=60, activate_scrollbars=False)
text.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="sew")```

[sinful kettle]

idek what any of this means but I'll surely look into this

[sinful kettle]

do you think i should stick to tkinter? it's still early and i can switch to smth else

[royal cape]

depends on what you want your GUI to look like, tkinter's themed widgets (tkinter.ttk) can give you a native feeling GUI but manually styling it is harder

for reference, here was one of my GUIs in windows 11, basically all default styling:

[sinful kettle]

i was thinking to switching to PyQt(?) idk i heard it was really complete but also really complicated so I've been skeptical

[royal cape]

there's also ttkbootstrap which works similarly to customtkinter, if you prefer their styles
https://ttkbootstrap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#

https://ttkbootstrap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/assets/themes/themes.gif

[sinful kettle]

oh yeah the hidden gem software style

[sinful kettle]

ideally my goto style for this app would be really close to customtkinter's style. I've just been having some issues with some missing features

if pyqt were to be more customizable I'd likely go for that and push my way in

[royal cape]

^ fashoomp's explanations seem reasonable, i find tkinter easy for basic/common stuff, but it doesn't offer that many tools for more complex UIs and widgets
#user-interfaces message

if you just want bare bones UI, go with tkinter. If you want a bit more control and some advanced features like being able to drag and drop a file into the application, go with PySide6

[sinful kettle]

is pyside6 a pyqt fork?

[royal cape]

i believe pyside is the official python Qt wrapper and pyqt is third party, but they should be similar since they wrap the same APIs

similar enough that there's a project that wraps their wrappers into one single wrapper
https://github.com/mottosso/Qt.py

wait, maybe i meant to link this one? https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy

🥴 i havent paid much attention to qt stuff

[sinful kettle]

that's awesome, tomorrow i'll dive right in!

tysm!

[royal cape]

i dont have many resources for learning PyQt / PySide, only ones i know are these:
https://www.pythonguis.com/
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt6/index.html
https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/

[high schooner]

Hi everyone, does anyone know if mouse events work on custom-widgets. For example if I make my own class and make a function claeed mosuePressEvent(self,event) will that trigger on that event? It used to when I had my widgets inside a layout, but ever since putting them inside a graphics scene they have not been working. Any tips on how to fix this? Thanks

[brittle birch]

I was making a login page, but when I want to make a new button, this happens when I copy it, what is the reason?

Why is this button black

[cyan shard]

is it possible its part of the theme you're using?

[brittle birch]

I don't understand you

Please tell me more clearly

[cyan shard]

I'm purely making a guess bc i dont see the code that led to the login screen, so i'm guessing that the button that is black is default

Can you post your code?

[brittle birch]

yeah

[cyan shard]

i guess a better question is, how did you get the button to be pink/purple?

[brittle birch]

Like this

[plain gale]

I don't know Qt, but it seems somewhat similar to HTML/CSS from this screenshot
You copied the button but you didn't copy the button's style
Your stylesheet only points to the button#b1
Presumably you also need to apply the style to the second button

[brittle birch]

I don't understand you bro

please tell me more clearly

I understand that the button gets its color from the background and the css does not work on it

[plain gale]

In your stylesheet:
QPushButton#1 is what you are applying the style to (making it purple instead of black)
QPushButton#1 only refers to the first button you made.
One way to solve it is make the id of the second button #2 and then in the stylesheet apply the same style on it

[brittle birch]

Bro

I create a normal new button and give it properties and nothing changes

As you can see, it's still the same

@plain gale

[plain gale]

Hmm I'm not sure what the problem is then

The button's id is definitely b4 and not b2 or b3?

[brittle birch]

Yes

I wonder if I should redo the whole project

Maybe there's some weird mistake, huh?

[ebon mango]

Is there a way to have some parts of your text in a label styled differently (color mainly) in customtkinter ?

[brittle birch]

How can I remove the place I have drawn in red, and at the same time how can I use the place I have drawn in blue, that is, how can I make it functional?

[lofty pond]

It is a flag set to the window, personally have not used Qt in a bit, I'm sure a quick search online on title bars in PyQt would point you in the right direction.

[brittle birch]

ı don't found it..

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[hot ermine]

Guys i need to do when my button 1 is clicked it launch C:\Program Files\ExLoader\ExLoader.exe

can someone help me?

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[half helm]

Does anyone know how to make a custom dialog box or at least an Entry dialog box using GTK4 (via PyGObject bindings), and have it return the text input after clicking Submit?

[brittle birch]

How can I remove the place I have drawn in red, and at the same time how can I use the place I have drawn in blue, that is, how can I make it functional?

I really need help with this, I can't figure out how to do it.

[sleek hollow]

it's a window flag you can set. Qt.FramelessWindowHint

[brittle birch]

As you can see, that method doesn't work

[sleek hollow]

Type it out, even if it doesn't autocomplete

Oh you have it below

1 sec

you need to bitwise it

[brittle birch]

Do you have a chance to give me the code? I didn't quite get it. I might misunderstand what you said, I'm a Turk.

[sleek hollow]

self.setWindowFlags(self.windowFlags() ^ Qt.FramelessWindowHint)

[sleek hollow]

Merhaba 👋 😉

[brittle birch]

Like this?

[brittle birch]

Merhaba 😅

[sleek hollow]

depends on how you imported Qt

It might need to be QtCore.Qt

[brittle birch]

I fixed what you said but it still looks like this

[sleek hollow]

try disabling the line where you set translucent background. Maybe they don't play nice together?

also you're setting the line twice

[brittle birch]

ı did it

but wait

There's a problem

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\burak\OneDrive\Desktop\AtlantiumApp\Code\Main.py", line 15, in <module>
registerionForm = RegisterAppUI(rpc)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "c:\Users\burak\OneDrive\Desktop\AtlantiumApp\Code\RegisterPage.py", line 13, in init
self.goLoginButton.clicked.connect(self.show_login)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'RegisterAppUI' object has no attribute 'show_login'

...

[sleek hollow]

Can't really be sure without the code

[brittle birch]

ı solved this

but

I can't seem to remove the navigation bar

[sleek hollow]

At this point I'd need to be able to test the code, otherwise I'm not sure

[brittle birch]

Why is the splashscreen like this when I start the program? If it doesn't come like this, I feel free to check if it works or not.

[sleek hollow]

Again it's really hard to know without the code

[brittle birch]

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, uic, QtCore
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QDialog, QMessageBox, QMainWindow
from discord_presence import DiscordRichPresence

class SplashScreenUI(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, rpc, parent_widget):
        super(SplashScreenUI, self).__init__()
        uic.loadUi("SplashScreenPage.ui", self)  # Ensure your UI file name is correct
        self.rpc = rpc
        self.parent_widget = parent_widget

        self.setWindowFlag(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
        
        # After splash screen logic, switch to login form
        QtCore.QTimer.singleShot(3000, self.show_login_form)  # Show login form after 3 seconds

    def show_login_form(self):
        self.parent_widget.setCurrentIndex(1)
        self.rpc.update_presence("Giriş Sayfasında", "Giriş yapmayı bekliyor")

This code

[sleek hollow]

Instead of making your own custom splash screen from QMainWindow, you can just use QSplashScreen

I also don't use Qt Designer at all so I'm not sure if that's causing issues too

[brittle birch]

I don't understand you

Can you tell me more clearly?

[sleek hollow]

class SplashScreenUI(QMainWindow):

you are inheriting QMainWindow

you can make a class that inherits from QSplashScreen

but I'm also saying I don't use Qt Designer and .ui files

so I don't know specifically how you would need to connect it

[brittle birch]

...

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[rich ruin]

i get a RuntimeError when running my code, saying that main thread is not in main loop? wtf does this mean

this is my code
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/MGKQ

and here is the error:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SC7A

how can i fix this

[spiral apex]

Keyboard starts a new thread

[rich ruin]

makes sense

[spiral apex]

You need to call tk's mainloop from your main thread

[rich ruin]

how do i do that

[rich ruin]

cause i have no idea what that means

[proper escarp]

I made a digital journal using Tkinter. 🙂

[plain gale]

Nice! I love this, make me feel kind of nostalgic for the old Windows wallpaper
And the pixel art is very cute

[golden rover]

just wondering... im thinking about learning tkinter but I saw the tkinter designer in github. Is that a valid way of converting figma designs to python tkinter code or should i opt to learning the tkinter itself?

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

[rich ruin]

so when trying to create a button widget, i get this error: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/YY4A
i cannot seem to recreate this in a minimal example so here's my full code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RRIQ
i have no idea what this means or how to fix it, can someone please help?

tkinter and pynput import conflicts :agony:

[brittle birch]

When I click on this checkbox, I want the square in the checkbox to be red and the tick mark in the checkbox to be white.

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[warm lotus]

I mean, I'm always in the camp of learning things because you never know when it'd be useful

[gilded bramble]

would anyone be able to help me understand why TKinter won't read a variable from the keyboard module? I basically want a variable in the window to go from OFF to ON when I hit a certain hotkey but when I run the mainloop() it doesn't read any inputs from keyboard

when I tried it with a button in the window it changed so I figure I just don't get how TKinter reads inputs from other modules or smn

[sleek hollow]

Why do you need the keyboard module with tkinter? You can already detect keyboard inputs with it

[sweet glacier]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/LUBQ can someone assit me please

[sleek hollow]

what is it you need help with?

[wheat thistle]

isn't tkinter kind of old though?

shouldn't you switch to PyQT?

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[sleek hollow]

it entirely depends on what they're trying to do. tkinter is "good enough" for a lot of basic things

[wheat thistle]

I see wys

fair enough

[digital rose]

I want to deploy an app to windows, os x, and android. Is kivy my only option?

[forest cloud]

The fun thing about learning a new framework without much in the way of docs is coming up with your own way of doing things. Do y'all also use factory functions or is this overkill?

def _standardizeAlignment(widget : tk.Widget):
    widget.grid = partial(widget.grid, sticky=tk.W)

def create_entry(parent : tk.Misc, state=tk.NORMAL) -> tk.Entry:
    widget = tk.Entry(parent, state=state) 
    _standardizeAlignment(widget)
    return widget

def create_label(parent : tk.Misc, text='') -> tk.Label:
    widget = tk.Label(parent, text=text)
    _standardizeAlignment(widget)
    return widget

def create_frame(parent : tk.Misc) -> tk.Frame:
    widget = tk.Frame(parent)
    widget.config(highlightbackground='red', highlightthickness=0.5) # debug line
    widget.grid_configure(ipadx=5, ipady=5)
    _standardizeAlignment(widget)    
    return widget

[steep hatch]

Guys i just need background of the Labels of weather app transparent is that possible?

I need the color that are in background should match with it

I just begginer

I used customtkinter module

[steep hatch]

This black edges how do i solve it?

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[royal cape]

that's an interesting approach, i don't write tkinter GUIs frequently but if it's complex enough, i'd inherit Frame or other tkinter classes to create new widgets that are composed of other widgets:
https://github.com/thegamecracks/joblin/blob/main/examples/tkinter_app.py
https://github.com/thegamecracks/dum-dum-irc/blob/main/src/dumdum/client/chat_frame.py
https://github.com/thegamecracks/parallel-downloader/blob/main/pdl.py

[quiet breach]

hi, is anyone familiar with the toggle extension for vscode? i was trying to add something to my keybindings.json to be able to toggle indent guides on\off via a keyboard shortcut, but can't figure out what i am doing wrong? or any other tips on achieving this besides the toggle extension?

{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+i",
    "command": "toggle",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": {
        "id": "renderIndentGuides",
        "value": [
            {
                "editor.renderIndentGuides": true
            },
            {
                "editor.renderIndentGuides": false
            }
        ]
    }
}

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[forest cloud]

Hang on.
I think selecting and replacing text in a Tkinter Entry updates an attached Stringvar twice
Once to delete the selected text
Another time to place the new text in place
Which I guess makes some sense, but it means it triggers write-tracers twice, which is gonna cost me performance

Not that I care much for performance in this app, mind you. I just thought it rather counterintuitive at first

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[last elbow]

Hello everyone

[forest cloud]

hello there

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[forest cloud]

in Tkinter, is there a way to fully collapse a row/column, reducing height/width to zero? effectively hiding it without detaching it from the grid?

[misty canopy]

I don't think so, but maybe consider grid_remove instead?

[forest cloud]

Yeah, that was the backup. tyvm

[grand zenith]

Does anyone know how to make the vertical light gray border line separating the columns run all the way down to the bottom of the table? So far I just disabled the gridlines and added a border-right css property, is there a better way to do this?

[bleak mountain]

Hey, a few questions regarding gui design:
1- im trying to make an app using Python (would prefer to use python for everything but im open to use a seperate development method for the design and ui part while sticking to python for the backend), should i be using TKinter or PyQt, and are they able to make sophisticated and clean clean looking designs?

2- I am currently using PyQt and was wondering if i can convert a .py file back to .ui to edit it more in the designer after i've added actual functionality to some parts on the script?

Thanks i appreciate any insight regarding these questions!

[forest cloud]

Not an expert by any stretch, but I spent about a week flip-flopping between the two frameworks before settling on Tkinter, so here some observations:

1. Tkinter is slightly easier to get going
2. Tkinter is not a large external dependency, so your app, once built, will be smaller (more relevant for apps that are themselves smmall)
3. PySide/PyQt has a larger widget pool to draw from
4. PyQt looks more modern out of the box
5. .ui files, accorinding to this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27125110/how-to-reconstruct-a-ui-file-from-pyuic-py-file, are not easily or clearly reconstructable from the generated python code
6. I've actually been recommended on here not to use .ui files at all - coding out the entire UI gives you more control and a better understanding of how your GUI is structured.
   6a) I suppose a hybrid approach, where you copy-paste parts of the autogenerated code into your own files is possible, from what I've seen the generated code is relatively clean. But editing the generated files directly is risky.
7. All that said, there are libraries to make Tkinter more modern-looking/customize the look. I've just not looked into those. For my use case an old-school look is fine.
8. Two weeks after choosing Tkinter, am I regretting my choice though? Not tremendously so. The widgets are a lil limiting sometimes, but the framework is well-built and I'm happy to work with it.

Ultimately it's up to you. but I wouldn't consider the existence of .ui files a significant advantage for pySide, as in my (very limited) experience they can be hard to integrate with your own code. at least if you're starting out

I will now sit back and wait for more experienced people to correct me

[bleak mountain]

appreciate the advice, ill start using the designer just as means to know the code for certain widgets and just try to write everything from scratch, would give me more control as you said

[full mountain]

hello guys, what are some good frameworks to make ur application frontend in?

[unborn basalt]

any feedback on my gui design? critisism wanted/welcome

[cyan shard]

what am i looking at on the bottom left?

[unborn basalt]

Dropdown

[sleek hollow]

Why does it need such a bit textbox for a time calculator?

[unborn basalt]

it outputs a large string of instructions that change depending on the inputs

[sleek hollow]

Ahh well that makes sense then

[unborn basalt]

yea. this is what it does (old image)

[sleek hollow]

maybe use a spinbox instead of entry for the temp. I think you can set it up so mousewheel can raise/lower the value. That might be a bit more user friendly

[unborn basalt]

isnt this a spinbox?

[sleek hollow]

yes

[unborn basalt]

i thought that was numbers only

[sleek hollow]

isn't "temperature" a number?

[unborn basalt]

oh for that. I thought u meant the dropdown lol

yea thats good idea

[sleek hollow]

I don't know much about photography development but perhaps set the default value to a commonly used temperature for development (room temperature?)

[unborn basalt]

good idea

24 default

[sleek hollow]

also since timing is important, you could even include a stopwatch sort of widget

[unborn basalt]

do I just use inset() for that?

[sleek hollow]

depends how you set the spinbox variable

[unborn basalt]

i just replaced the entry keyword with spinbox and added to_ and from_

[sleek hollow]

you should use a tk.IntVar to hold the value

I was playing around with it and wrote this code you can mess with

import tkinter as tk 


def on_mouse_wheel(e):
    new_value = 1 if e.delta > 0 else -1
    temp_spin_var.set(temp_spin_var.get() + new_value)


root = tk.Tk()

temp_spin_var = tk.IntVar()
temp_spin_var.set(24)
temp_spin = tk.Spinbox(textvariable=temp_spin_var, font=('consolas', 16))
temp_spin.bind('<MouseWheel>', on_mouse_wheel)
temp_spin.pack()

root.mainloop()

this gives the mousewheel behaviour

the var names are terrible edited var names to be less bad

[unborn basalt]

alr il try that

works great

[slim cairn]

I am writing a class to create a custom titlebar window for the tkinter window.
I cannot find the reason that why there are two tkinter windows being created one customized and other is default tkinter window.
If i close the custom window the other window do not closes and produces the error:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "...\Python\Python311\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1948, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "...\Python\Python311\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2369, in destroy
    Misc.destroy(self)
  File "...\Python\Python311\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 687, in destroy
    self.tk.deletecommand(name)
_tkinter.TclError: can't delete Tcl command

source code: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RZKA

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[dapper valve]

'ello

made my first gui

:)

[trim saddle]

Hi, why you have both C and X. They do the same thing. btw nice work

[dapper valve]

C removes everything, with the other one can remove just a single value in any postion :)

[trim saddle]

So make C to AC (all clear)

[dapper valve]

o

alr

i didnt know the difference lol

[trim saddle]

Yes 🙂

[dapper valve]

i didnt know cuz my cal has both C and AC, and they both basically clears everything

[digital rose]

What GUI library did you use?

[dapper valve]

Custon Tkinter

[plain gale]

Looks nice

[dapper valve]

ty

[forest cloud]

easiest way to reduce the width of a tkinter entry? This is getting a lil excessive in the horizontal direction.

Oh , nvm, I obviously find it 30 seconds after asking the question 💀

[solar turret]

💀

[bleak geode]

Are u building a game

[forest cloud]

Wouldn't call it that tbh. It's a fantasy warship designer, you give it numbers, it spits out numbers, it's closer to a spreadsheet than a full-fledged game tbh

Like, up till now the warship designer community (all 5 of them) have been using closed source spaghetti from the mid 200X's, written in .net

And we want something better

[plain gale]

Oooh, you're building something useful for other people
Nice!

[sinful pendant]

Anyone ??

[grand zenith]

Does anyone know how to fix this error when adding widgets to a status bar in Qt?
RuntimeError: wrapped C/C++ object of type QLabel has been deleted

        self.status_bar_processes_label = QLabel("Processes: 0")
        self.status_bar_cpu_usage_label = QLabel("CPU Usage: 0%")
        self.status_bar_physical_memory_label = QLabel("Physical Memory: 0%")

        self.statusBar().addPermanentWidget(self.status_bar_processes_label)
        self.statusBar().addPermanentWidget(VLine())
        self.statusBar().addPermanentWidget(self.status_bar_cpu_usage_label)
        self.statusBar().addPermanentWidget(VLine())
        self.statusBar().addPermanentWidget(self.status_bar_physical_memory_label)
``` whenever I want to use the `QLabels` later on in the code I get the runtime error from before

[hardy island]

AC - All Clear; clears the entire computation.
C - Clear; clears the board/view.

e.g.
before, you have written

2 × 8 +
```and now, you're writing the 2nd part
```fix
( 0 × 5 + 2 )

Pressing C, would reset your last input. not the entire equation. (you're still stuck with the 1st part 2 × 8 +)

Pressing AC, would reset everything. and output 0.

[dapper valve]

o alr

[austere lily]

Love making betterDiscord plugins

[cunning kettle]

I found something that's really cool for cli development called charm (https://charm.sh/) but it looks like its specifically for go. does python have a port or something like it?

[grand zenith]

that is the zestiest shell I've ever seen

[cunning kettle]

thank you jon3331222

[tight ice]

Is there anything out of the box for pyqt5 to zoom and pan a QGraphicsView? Every solution online looks like they build their own zooming/panning, and I'm wondering if I can just use a lib for it

[plain gale]

if they build their own zooming and panning and if they provide source code
can't you just use that?

[proven basin]

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[tight ice]

None of it seems to work

(In the subclassed QGraphicsView)
self.translate(dx, dy) is not doing anything -

 def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
        if self._is_panning:
            delta = event.pos() - self._start_pan_point
            self._start_pan_point = event.pos()  # update for next move

            self.translate(delta.x(), delta.y())

            event.accept()
        else:
            super().mouseMoveEvent(event)

if I print delta.x() and delta.y(), they are both non-zero integers, so it should do something

Nothing is panning, it's just not doing anything -

A thing to note: if I zoom in (scale inwards), such that the scrollbar is visible, it works

Anyone have any ideas?

[trim saddle]

Can you center a Window title or not in pyside6?

[sleek hollow]

Not really, the title bar is handled by your OS. You could cheat it by measuring the width of the window and padding it with spaces I suppose

if you knew the font width

[trim saddle]

Oh

[trim saddle]

I will leave at side

[void bramble]

Have you ever had any problems converting pyside6 python code into an executable one file program?

[trim saddle]

Just started using it

I want to put a icon (settings icon) in the place I circled can I do that?

in pyside6

[sleek hollow]

What kind of layout are you using? Is that a tool bar?

[trim saddle]

Yes

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toolbar = QToolBar()
toolbar.setOrientation(Qt.Vertical)
toolbar.setIconSize(QSize(24, 24))
toolbar.setStyleSheet("background-color: #333333; color: white;")
        
toolbar.addAction(QAction(QIcon("/Practice/calendar_icon.png"), "Calendar", self))
toolbar.addAction(QAction(QIcon("/Practice/calculator_icon.png"), "Calculator", self))

self.addToolBar(Qt.LeftToolBarArea, toolbar)

[sleek hollow]

you can add a spacing widget which will stretch the empty space, and then add your icon after

[trim saddle]

this?

[sleek hollow]

you can create a custom one from a QWidget

spacer = QWidget()
spacer.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Expanding, QSizePolicy.Expanding)
toolbar.addWidget(spacer)

add this before your settings icon

[trim saddle]

Okay let me try

[trim saddle]

I have to import QSizePolicy?

[sleek hollow]

it's part of QtWidgets

QtWidgets.QSizePolicy

[trim saddle]

why it is complaining?

[sleek hollow]

I assumed you did * import based on your other class name uses

how did you import it?

[sleek hollow]

then you need to include QSizePolicy in your QtWidgets import line

I'd really recommend just importing all of QtWidgets

it's a pain to update it to include only the classes you use

(that's usually how chatgpt writes it for some reason)

[trim saddle]

yes that's what I thought

[trim saddle]

I saw videos also they also import like this

[sleek hollow]

I'd really avoid it tbh

just from PySide6 import QtWidgets, QtCore, QtGui

[trim saddle]

So I should import like this import PySide6.QtWidgets?

[trim saddle]

Okay

[sleek hollow]

and then I'll still do from PySide6.QtCore import Qt

[trim saddle]

Okay

[trim saddle]

Let me check this then I will get back to you

[trim saddle]

Can I make it little bit up?

[sleek hollow]

yes, you could add another spacer widget after adding the settings

you could set a fixed height on this one instead though if you always want it a specific distance

like "50 pixels from the bottom"

[trim saddle]

How can I do that?

[sleek hollow]

spacer = QWidget()
spacer.setFixedHeight(50)
toolbar.addWidget(spacer)

[trim saddle]

TYSM

thanks

Can I add gradient in QPushButton? I want to add gradient in this button

[sleek hollow]

this isn't quite right. You should add the spacer after the settings button. You would end up with two spacers

[sleek hollow]

it's possible but it starts to get a lot trickier

[trim saddle]

So I should go with this

[sleek hollow]

you use both

the stretching spacer goes before the settings button, and the fixed height spacer goes after the settings button

it's ok to reuse the same spacer variable name for both here because they're just throwaway names

[trim saddle]

Okay.

[sleek hollow]

spacer = QtWidgets.QWidget()
spacer.setSizePolicy(QtWidgets.SizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.SizePolicy.Expanding)
toolbar.addWidget(spacer)

#---Add settings button here---
...

spacer = QtWidgets.QWidget()
spacer.setFixedHeight(50)
toolbar.addWidget(spacer)

[trim saddle]

Thanks

[trim saddle]

so what should I do?

[sleek hollow]

Look into style sheets or QPalette styling

[trim saddle]

Oh I know some css

[trim saddle]

I have this problem again but now with QListWidget

[trim saddle]

same solution?

[sleek hollow]

You want a gap in your list widget?

[trim saddle]

Let me show you what I want to do

[trim saddle]

I want to put 3 Icons and Text (Socials) in the circled space.

        sidebar = QtWidgets.QListWidget()
        sidebar.addItems(["Note Name", "Note 1", "Note 2", "Note 3", "Note 4", "Note 5"])
        sidebar.setStyleSheet("background-color: #222222; color: white;")
        main_layout.addWidget(sidebar, 1)

code

[sleek hollow]

You wouldn't put it directly inside the qlistwidget. You can create a layout underneath it and add the widgets to that

[trim saddle]

Okay

[trim saddle]

I can use QtWidgets.QFrame right?

[trim saddle]

With which layout I will add it?

I put it with main layout and it is here

[sleek hollow]

you don't need a frame, just a QHBoxLayout.

[sleek hollow]

then you need to make your main layout vertical, or make a new qwidget that holds your list widget and other layout below

from PySide6 import QtWidgets


class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QDialog):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout(self)

        note_layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        socials_layout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()

        self.note_list_wdg = QtWidgets.QListWidget()
        self.note_list_wdg.addItems(['Note 1', 'Note 2'])

        socials_layout.addWidget(QtWidgets.QPushButton("1"))
        socials_layout.addWidget(QtWidgets.QPushButton("2"))
        socials_layout.addWidget(QtWidgets.QPushButton("3"))

        layout.addLayout(note_layout)
        note_layout.addWidget(self.note_list_wdg)
        note_layout.addLayout(socials_layout)


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

have a look at this example

it's a qlistwidget with 3 buttons below

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I just need to add a layout here?

[trim saddle]

That's what you are saying?

[sleek hollow]

here I've made a layout that holds the qlistwidget AND the layout that holds the 3 buttons below it

social_layout holds the 3 buttons

note_layout holds the list widget and the social layout

ui/widget placement is all about nesting layouts like this

[trim saddle]

Okay.

[trim saddle]

Finally

[sleek hollow]

🎉

[trim saddle]

Now I also need to add icons

[sleek hollow]

create a label and set a pixmap to it

[trim saddle]

And it should be in center

[sleek hollow]

centered where?

[trim saddle]

Like it is left side

It should be it center

[sleek hollow]

I don't know how you've added it

[sleek hollow]

you shouldn't be adding an action to your label

you should be using setPixmap

socials_lable.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap('path/to/image.png'))

actions are for toolbars/menus

[trim saddle]

Oh sorry

[sleek hollow]

you also don't seem to be adding your widget to the bottom bar layout that you made

shouldn't the socials label go there?

[trim saddle]

Yes

WTH

[sleek hollow]

you can resize the pixmap, or use a smaller image file

after the QPixmap(), you can add .scaled(64, 64) for example