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static cove Jun 16, 2020, 11:17 PM

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After a brief test: no

silver maple Jun 16, 2020, 11:17 PM

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Ok

static cove Jun 16, 2020, 11:17 PM

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But the code that I didn't change seems to function just fine. To confirm what python + tkinter version are you running?

silver maple Jun 16, 2020, 11:19 PM

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I am on python 3.8.2

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For some reason it says AttributeError: module 'tkinter' has no attribute 'version'

static cove Jun 16, 2020, 11:22 PM

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Well, my guess is some interaction with the other game/code/module you're running might be affecting how quickly tkinter is updating/clearing the length_text variable. So you're seeing parts of the "Queue: ##" when it was double digit underneath the now single digit display.

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tkinter ships with python standard so I mostly care about your python version

silver maple Jun 16, 2020, 11:22 PM

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So it is just my computer lagging?

static cove Jun 16, 2020, 11:23 PM

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maybe? I don't think anything bad/weird is happening with the StringVar value itself, just the display of it

silver maple Jun 16, 2020, 11:23 PM

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Ok, thank you very much for your time.

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I think I just confirmed your guess too, because when I switched my micro function to sleep(1) I get no problems, so it must be the computer doing too much when I have the keyboard and mouse inputs.

balmy ferry Jun 17, 2020, 9:00 AM

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Hello all, I am using wxPython to create a Window in KDE but it shows up as light themed instead of dark theme (which is what my system is set to) is there anything I can do to switch this? If I am on GNOME it shows the dark mode as expected

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It's OK, figured it out, I believe wxPython using GTK and so I had to update my GTK Application Style for the changes to take effect in wxPython

lone veldt Jun 17, 2020, 9:16 AM

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Hi, I don't know whether this question is too vague for this channel but I've been wondering about how to exactly set background colors in urwid, as I am unable to understand the documentation properly... I have tried to apply them in the MainLoop as in urwid.MainLoop(top, palette=[('reversed', 'standout', 'h8', '#fbc')]) but it isn't exactly working, error says that urwid.display_common.AttrSpecError: foreground/background ('standout'/'h8') require more colors than have been specified (16)., Thank you for the help in advance :).

lone veldt Jun 17, 2020, 10:56 AM

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It's really been annoying me lately, the docs don't make that much sense to me

static cove Jun 17, 2020, 1:48 PM

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So from looking at the docs the foreground wants a color value or at least somehow indicating that you're not providing a color so that it can assume a default.
When you provide 'h8', that's a foreground_high, but at this point palette is expecting a background color, which you're not providing.

Specifically it's expecting a list of tuples, docs which I'm referencing here: http://urwid.org/reference/display_modules.html#urwid.BaseScreen.register_palette

For a more complete example of a palette you can look here around like 338: https://github.com/urwid/urwid/blob/master/examples/palette_test.py
or to pull out the specific code snippet:

    palette = [
        ('header', 'black,underline', 'light gray', 'standout,underline', 'black,underline', '#88a'),
        ('panel', 'light gray', 'dark blue', '',
            '#ffd', '#00a'),
        ('focus', 'light gray', 'dark cyan', 'standout',
            '#ff8', '#806'),
        ]

worldly venture Jun 17, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Not sure if this is the right place for it, but I am trying out python unittest with tkinter. I am testing the functionality of one of my classes, which is a child of ttk.Button. Since that requires the root, I can't separate the test from the application. So when the test runs, it actually creates and runs the app, which I don't think is supposed to be the case. How do I test that class without actually running the app with unittest?

full comet Jun 17, 2020, 4:48 PM

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Anybody got experience using PyQt5 and pyinstaller? The QWebEngineView isn't playing nice as a packaged app. Everything works except for any my functions that calls this app. When I click a button that supposed to show a URL in a window inside the app... nothing happens. Is there another way I can display web browser without using QWebEngine view? When I run the code on my IDE, it works fine.

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 7:16 AM

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PyQt5: QML vs QtWidgets

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I only know how to use QtWidgets so far, so I wanted to know if it might be worth it to jump over to QML

north quail Jun 18, 2020, 8:04 AM

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personally i prefer QtWidgets but it seems like QtQuick/QML are getting much more attention and emphasis from the Qt devs nowadays

violet bolt Jun 18, 2020, 9:11 AM

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could some one please help me with pyqt5?

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im wondering if i can link a .ui file to a .py file and use signals

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and how i use signals

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 9:49 AM

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there is a cmd command for that

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hang on

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pyuic5 -x fileName.ui -o fileName_auto.py

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turns it

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into a py file

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when you run it

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you get the ui output

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also

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PySide2 vs PyQt5

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there is a licensing difference i think, but im not sure what it is

violet bolt Jun 18, 2020, 10:40 AM

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sorry i worded that awfully

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i figured it out

violet bolt Jun 18, 2020, 10:55 AM

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would any one know how to display multiple pages in pyqt5?
from script_base import Ui_MainWindow

    def __init__(self):
        super(MyWindow, self).__init__()
        switch_window = QtCore.pyqtSignal(str)
        self.ui = Ui_MainWindow()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)

        self.ui.home_flight.clicked.connect(self.my_function)

    def my_function(self):
        #somehow display page 2
        

def window():
    import sys
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    win = MyWindow()
    win.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())
window()```
there is my code
i need it so when i hit ui.home_flight
it goes to def my_function
then displays page 2
would be very helpful!

violet bolt Jun 18, 2020, 11:10 AM

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nvm figured it out

rough mauve Jun 18, 2020, 12:33 PM

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hello everybody

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is it way to make android/ios native apps without using kivy ?

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 12:51 PM

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is it way to make android/ios native apps without using kivy ?
@rough mauve i assume python-specific

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this is a python centric server lmao

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:08 PM

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did you ping me?

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rip

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:09 PM

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@sharp jackal 😏 sorry, it was me, not -y-

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:09 PM

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the trickster ;)

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did you need something?

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:10 PM

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yes, i wanted to know if it's possible what -z- asked

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:11 PM

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you can use pyqt5 or pyside2 with qml i think(in response to -w-)

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:11 PM

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maybe with QML and PySide2 or PyQt?

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:11 PM

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yeah

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i prefer qtwidgets though

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and you have to learn another markup language

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its a big rip

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:12 PM

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yeah, that's also my prob

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:12 PM

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is there another qt designer type thing for qml?

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there might be

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there probably is

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:13 PM

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only qt creator

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which is poor ...

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:13 PM

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hmm ok

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yeah, i dont use python for creating my mobile apps(but we cant talk about that here shh...)

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the overlords are looking down upon us

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:14 PM

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hm ...

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:14 PM

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python for web dev is gr8 though in my opinion

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and desktop apps

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pyqt5 is pretty lit as well

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or pyside 2

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i know there is a licensing diffference

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but they're practically the same lmao

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:15 PM

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yeah, i like pyqt

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:15 PM

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what even is the licensing difference

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?

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gotta check that out

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:15 PM

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pyqt needs GPL 3

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afaik pyside not

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:16 PM

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in that case

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pyside is less restraining

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and

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the official qt devs support it right

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they support it as 'Qt for Python'

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pyqt5 doesnt have the best docs though in my opinion

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while pyside2 does

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:17 PM

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that's true

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:17 PM

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meaning that i look at pyside2 docs

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and then

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use the same thing

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in pyqt5

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coder moment

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:17 PM

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i had a hard time learning pyqt

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:18 PM

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same

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but now that i know it

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its beautiful

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ui designer is gr8

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:18 PM

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yeah, designer is an awesome tool

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unfortunately there is no similar designer for QML

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:19 PM

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yeah

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:19 PM

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i tried qt creator

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:19 PM

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unfortunately, i dont know how to resize widgets when the window is resized

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:19 PM

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it has a disign tool built-in

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 1:19 PM

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but there must be a way

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it has a disign tool built-in
@tribal pier aah ok

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:20 PM

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and it's cool, you can design your gui and then ...

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then you need to write the python backend

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that was the point where i gave up

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maybe i'll give it a try again ... later

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there also aren't good resources about using pyqt5 with qml

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some are about pyside with qml ... but mostly they cover just the basics

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it has a disign tool built-in
it's definitely worth a try, while you're designing the gui,
you can switch to the editor and see the qml code generated

steep sundial Jun 18, 2020, 1:40 PM

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hello,

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:49 PM

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@steep sundial hi

steep sundial Jun 18, 2020, 1:51 PM

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hi @tribal pier

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can i ask i little question? but it is not related python library, it is related ui

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 1:52 PM

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ok

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this is the right place for ui

steep sundial Jun 18, 2020, 1:55 PM

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i want to explain a code to other people, but i think this is need a ui to attract attention

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i look similiary instagram post to explain code

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like this, but i dont know name of application

📎 header-boards.png

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I searched Google for the name of the application, and did not find it

full comet Jun 18, 2020, 2:35 PM

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Still very new to coding. When using pyinstaller for my code I get

4984 ERROR: Can not find path ./Qt3DCore.framework/Version/5/Qt3dCore (needed by /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/qml/QtQuick/Scene3D/libqtquickscene3dplugin.dylib)

My code does compile via SublimeText perfectly. I can't locate Qt3DCore at all either searching. I know in the past I did something like venv, did I mess something up? Sorry if this is not making any sense.

sharp jackal Jun 18, 2020, 3:02 PM

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i think venv installs only in that virtual environment

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it doesnt install it in Lib/site-packages

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i think

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so it wont find

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your pyqt5 installation

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the code works because

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you are running the python code in the virtual environment

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just a hypothesis ¯_(ツ)_/¯

full comet Jun 18, 2020, 3:04 PM

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I uninstalled venv I believe. I can't run the command anymore. But I re-ran pyinstaller and got the same error. Is there a reason, or some sort of command I need to do to install Qt3Dcore? None of my mac searches pulls that framework/folder up

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 3:11 PM

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@full comet
what do you mean with My code does compile via SublimeText perfectly?

full comet Jun 18, 2020, 3:12 PM

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Sorry, my terminology isn't the best. But I compile and run the code from there. And it works exactly how I want it to do; click button, opens a webpage inside the program. When I use pyinstaller, the program opens, but I click on the button and nothing happens

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 3:15 PM

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hmm ...
I just took a look at my pyqt5 install (inside a virtual env) and I found
.../lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/qml/QtQuick/Scene3D/libqtquickscene3dplugin.so
i'm on linux, so it's a .so file

full comet Jun 18, 2020, 3:17 PM

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I can find that file too locally on my Mac. I just can't find ./Qt3DCore.Framework

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The (needed by) part I can locate

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 3:17 PM

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so you're running sublime-text from a virtual env?

full comet Jun 18, 2020, 3:18 PM

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locally at this point now

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I could do a screenshare too? Not sure if that helps

tribal pier Jun 18, 2020, 3:19 PM

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maybe creating a clean virtual env and install pyqt5 and pyinstaller, then retry

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I could do a screenshare too? Not sure if that helps
@full comet okay

amber roost Jun 18, 2020, 3:29 PM

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@steep sundial https://carbon.now.sh/

Carbon

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

steep sundial Jun 18, 2020, 4:13 PM

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@tribal pier ya, no problem

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@amber roost thanks.. a lot lemon_fingerguns

silver maple Jun 18, 2020, 7:44 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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Why are the second and third lines indented?

north quail Jun 18, 2020, 7:56 PM

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looks like the label isnt stretching to fit the whole window so it's basically this big

📎 unknown.png

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and inside that rectangle the text is being aligned in the middle horizontally

silver maple Jun 18, 2020, 8:16 PM

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Ok, thanks

rotund trench Jun 19, 2020, 12:14 AM

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hi, quick question on the tkinter treeview, if i wanted to ignore the parent child aspect of the treeview and use it more like a listview (with the columns) how is best to handle the first column? treat it a column but use the #0 to refer to it, or is there a way to not use it? thanks

hexed radish Jun 19, 2020, 12:20 AM

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Using PyQt5, the app is invoked, but I want the user to be able to start typing in the sole text box that is present. How I can achieve this? I've been using pynput in lieu of PyQt5 based approach, but it doesn't work great. Any ideas? 🙂

karmic shoal Jun 19, 2020, 5:18 AM

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@warped field Hello, as we do not allow unapproved advertising, plus the fact that this channel is for Python help relating to user interfaces, I have removed your link. Please refrain from posting such links in the future.

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 1:20 PM

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Looking to get some feedback, how does that look?

📎 image0.png

void nymph Jun 19, 2020, 4:05 PM

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anyone using vs code?

subtle otter Jun 19, 2020, 6:39 PM

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yes

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:43 PM

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yes

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@rain prawn That looks great!

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:45 PM

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thanks @topaz jay

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:45 PM

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what did you use?

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:45 PM

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check this one out as well

📎 2020-06-19_20-46-21.mp4

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@topaz jay adobe xd

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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is that a login?

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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ye

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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it looks good

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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per license key

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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ok

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maybe make the box a bit bigger to fill up the screen a bit more

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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I want it to feel minimalistic

topaz jay Jun 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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ok

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then I think it's fine

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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alright thanks

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 7:13 PM

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Hello

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Any python UI software ,

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to design Modern UI without coding

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@rain prawn what GUI software are you using?

rain prawn Jun 19, 2020, 7:26 PM

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I am not using a gui software

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I am writing it by hand

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 9:08 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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i want to create GUI like this

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for my python application

static cove Jun 19, 2020, 9:17 PM

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There are a few different options for a python gui. There's the one that ships with python: tkinter. It doesn't have the most features and it'll take some effort to make it look modern, but it doesn't involve external libraries.

A common one is pyqt or pyside2. These are python extensions of the Qt GUI interface that other languages like C++ use. There are restrictions on their licensing, so you want to pay attention to that. But it does allow you to use their Qt Designer which is a drag-and-drop GUI designer. You'll still need to code in the back-end functionality of the app and how the different windows interconnect and behave.

There's also kivy, which allows you to make desktop applications as well as Andriod and iOS applications. I'm not as familiar with it, but the recent Code Jam on this server used Kivy as their technology, so you can take a look at the submissions and winners for that to get a feel of what you can do.

There's wxPython. I'd say it's a step-up from tkinter but not a lot of people I know use it, but their licensing is pretty open for usage which is helpful.

Here's the official python docs on it: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/gui.html#what-platform-independent-gui-toolkits-exist-for-python

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 9:18 PM

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tkinter and wxpython are pretty hard to do.
I want to design the modern looking with drag and drop feature and connect with python script

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however iam also looking for some ready made app templates on electronjs

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like the one i posted above, with multiple tabs.

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i can use electron js with python,

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and where is kivy submissions?

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@static cove

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I m currently using pyQt5

static cove Jun 19, 2020, 9:20 PM

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The Winter Code Jam that used Kivy is here: https://pythondiscord.com/pages/code-jams/code-jam-6/

Python Discord | Winter Code Jam 2020: Ancient Technology

We're a large, friendly community focused around the Python programming language. Our community is open to those who wish to learn the language, as well as those looking to help others.

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 9:20 PM

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great

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Is there any official pyQt server, where can i seek help or get some advance modern ready made templates

static cove Jun 19, 2020, 9:21 PM

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That I'm not sure about, sorry =/. I do know their Qt Designer is helpful with layouts. It'll just take a bit of work to get the set-up how you want.

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 9:22 PM

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yes

north quail Jun 19, 2020, 9:23 PM

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looks like there is a qt discord server

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https://wiki.qt.io/Online_Communities link on this page

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and they have a channel for pyqt

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doesnt seem very active though

digital rose Jun 19, 2020, 9:24 PM

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i will look for some app source code on codepen

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can i intergrate those html style pages with electron js to work with python

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i dont think it can be done with python

hexed radish Jun 19, 2020, 9:46 PM

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Using PyQt5, user will make ui visible through shortcut bind. There is a single textbox, is it possible to setFocus to this?

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 6:18 AM

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Hi,I am making a magic 8 ball program using tkinter and I'm trying to make it a standalone executeable,
All is fine but now i have a button widget and a text entry box.
The problem is that I want to make the button go in the center and the text entry box to go in the center as well but just slightly above the button.
Then upon pressing the button,a random message would appear and I want it to appear in the center slightly below the button but I'm confused on how to do this.
Could anyone help me?

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Thats my code

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 10:58 AM

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The ball subroutine could be so much nicer with a dictionary and Tkinter is a pain to use

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If you use the pack geometry manager you can anchor the widgets to the center

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:00 AM

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Hello, new here and to tkinter but not python. I have the following class I am trying to setup with tkinter. Each dialog/widget is call at different points in the main script, however the issue I am running into is when one widget gets closed the frame object is destroyed. To work around this I instantiate a new root object for each time I wanna call one of the widgets, this doesn't seem to me to be a best practice. Any adivce

import Tkinter as tk
from Tkinter import *
import ttk
import tkFileDialog as fileDialog


class UIDialogs():
    def __init__(self):
        self.__root = tk.Tk()
        self.__frame = None
        self.__tv = None
        self.splices = None
        
    
    def userFilePathDialog(self, title, filetypes):
        self.__root = tk.Tk() #workaround
        return fileDialog.askopenfilename(parent = self.__root, title = title, filetypes = filetypes)
    

    def userFolderPathDialog(self, title):
        self.__root = tk.Tk() #workaround
        return fileDialog.askdirectory(parent = self.__root, title = title)
     

    def treeView(self):
        self.__frame = Frame(self.__root)
        self.__frame.pack()
        self.__tv = ttk.Treeview(self.__frame, columns=("Video File Name", "Timestamp Range", "Output Name"))
        self.__tv.heading("Video File Name",text="Video File Name")
        self.__tv.heading("Video File Name",text="Video File Name")
        self.__tv.heading("Timestamp Range",text="Timestamp Range")
        self.__tv.heading("Output Name",text="Output Name") 
        self.__tv.pack(padx=20,pady=10)
        self.__tv.insert("",2,text="Sample text")
        self.__tv.bind('<ButtonRelease-1>',self.cbRowSelect)
        self.__root.mainloop()

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:00 AM

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Put Python on the first line

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In the codeblock

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After the triple `

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:01 AM

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There we go

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:01 AM

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That's better cheers

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:02 AM

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This is the exact error I am getting _tkinter.TclError: can't invoke "frame" command: application has been destroyed

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if I dont instantiate a new root object every time

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I am guessing I am not properly disposing of an object after the dialog is closed using the 'X' button or keep the root object around persistently in the correct fashion

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:03 AM

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You shouldn't have to instantiate a new root object. What line of code are you using to destroy widgets?

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:04 AM

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I have explictly set that up

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What basically happens is I am calling that treeview in my main function, closing out of it, then later in the execution trying to call the widget that asks for the user file path

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and thats when it tells about the destroyed frame object

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:05 AM

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Right. It's probably because you're running self.__root.mainloop() in that function

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:05 AM

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I was thinking the same but I couldnt find a more proper way of doing it outside that function

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I tried calling it from the main code but it didnt seem to like that

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I think

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:06 AM

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Tkinter is a pain to work with honestly..

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:06 AM

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yea....

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I am open to anything new

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This was a learning exercise

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I have some brief experience with it at work so I wanted to use it for a personal utility

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:06 AM

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Usually you'll want the mainloop to be run as the last line of code and have the rest be dependent on events

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E.g. button presses and such

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:07 AM

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Might be a dumb question

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but how do I call the widgets to display then?

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The treeview displaying seems dependent on the mainloop function call

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:08 AM

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You initiate a widget, use a geometry manager and when mainloop is run it should display them

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If you mean hiding and showing widgets during mainloop then there's a arg for that. I'll see if I can find it in the docs.

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For this you use widget.<geometry_manager>_forget() to hide a widget and widget.<geometry_manager>() to show it.

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:10 AM

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Awesome, didn't know that

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I'll dig deeper into that

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Does this work the same for that blank TK widget that shows when you run mainloop?

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I appreciate the help @round stag

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:11 AM

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If the widget has been constructed using a geometry manager like pack or grid then it should

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The whole process in my eyes is you define the structure of a widget, visually define and place where you want it to be

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So instantiating and then using grid/pack

digital rose Jun 20, 2020, 11:12 AM

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Ahhh

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Okay this helps alot

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Thank you again

round stag Jun 20, 2020, 11:12 AM

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Good luck

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 2:39 PM

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I'm using PyQt5 as the UI for my application. End users using the application will use a shortcut on their keyboard to make the ui visible. I want them to be able to start typing once the ui has been made visible. Is this something that is natively possible with PyQt5? I've used pynput to move the mouse over to the sole textbox, and click so typing is immediately possible. However, this unfortunately does not work well. It'll work okay on my PC, however there are others who report that it does not work well on theirs. I've tested it on a lower res screen, and was able to replicate the behaviour that they've experienced ( ui flickers and stops focusing)

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Any ideas?

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:19 PM

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@hexed radish when the window is made visible, is it made active too? If so, then you can just use setFocus() on a widget

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:20 PM

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@sudden coral nice name, and yeah it is

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It looks like this

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:20 PM

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Without pynput?

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:21 PM

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This is the src code https://github.com/spotlightify/spotlightify/blob/master/spotlight/ui.py

GitHub

spotlightify/spotlightify

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I believe it is, I've very limited experience with this framework

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but seemingly is 'active'

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:21 PM

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Can you try setFocus then?

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:22 PM

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I've tried that, but no joy

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  def __init__(self, sp: Spotify, command_handler, parent=None):
        QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
        # for spotify interaction
        self.textbox = QLineEdit(self)
        self.command_handler = command_handler
        self.sp = sp
        self.setFocusPolicy(QtCore.Qt.NoFocus)
        # row positioning
        center = position_app()
        self.move(center)
        self.standard_row_height, self.small_row_height = [57, 47]
        self.resize(540, self.standard_row_height * 8)  # keep this, fixes weird bug
        # theming and style
        self.theme = {"dark": {"bg": "#191414", "text": "#B3B3B3"},
                      "light": {"bg": "#B3B3B3", "text": "#191414"}}
        self.active_theme = self.theme["dark"]
        self.setStyleSheet(f"QWidget {{background: {self.active_theme['bg']};}}")
        self.setWindowTitle('Spotlightify')
        self.setWindowOpacity(0.9)
        # global styling
        self.custom_font = QtGui.QFont("SF Pro Display light")
        # For cycling through previous commands
        self.previous_commands = [""]
        self.command_position = 0
        # needed for adding suggestion rows
        self.rows = [0] * 6
        self.current_num_of_rows = 0  # used to find the default command to executed
        # needed to exit the application
        self.exit = 0
        self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint | QtCore.Qt.Tool | QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)
        self.create_widgets()
        self.shortcut = QShortcut(QKeySequence("Ctrl+space"), self)
        self.shortcut.activated.connect(position_app)
        self.textbox.setFocus()

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Tried like this

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Genuinely at a loss

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:25 PM

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So it may not be the active window

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You can try this https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwidget.html#activateWindow

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But it won't work on Windows

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:25 PM

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😦

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:25 PM

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And you can blame Microsoft for that

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:26 PM

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Is there a cross platform method?

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:26 PM

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I thin there's actually no way to force focus on Windows

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It's like a "security" feature

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:26 PM

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Typical Windows

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I see

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On Windows, if you are calling this when the application is not currently the active one then it will not make it the active window. It will change the color of the taskbar entry to indicate that the window has changed in some way. This is because Microsoft does not allow an application to interrupt what the user is currently doing in another application.

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:27 PM

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/688337/how-do-i-force-my-app-to-come-to-the-front-and-take-focus

Stack Overflow

How do I force my app to come to the front and take focus?

I'm working on an application that happens to be the bootstrap for an installer that I'm also working on. The application makes a few MSI calls to get information that I need for putting together the

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But, with setFocus, it would at least make it so when the user clicks (anywhere?) on the window it will let them type right away

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:30 PM

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Yeah, makes sense. I guess what we'll have to do is get the window to snap to the mouse cursor or something. Or that threading method

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We've got threading put in place so... I guess maybe?

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 4:31 PM

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Not sure if you could apply that solution. I was linking that more so to point out it's not possible

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That code is Windows API code

hexed radish Jun 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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Ah right I see

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Thanks for the insight

willow crow Jun 20, 2020, 6:33 PM

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I'm tinkering with a small music editor (like the Piano Roll in any music program), and I'd like to explore various UI libraries that work well with Python. I wanna be sure it lends itself to the types of UI interactions I'm expecting. This editor will have a lot in common with, say, a map editor for a 2D game. There will be a bunch of dragging stuff around on a quantized grid, for example.

I've fired up a test of pyimgui with the sdl2 extension, and it's very terse code which is nice. My other option is PyQt5 which I've used for about a year, but I'm not sure it's the right lib for this kind of UI. Any thoughts? Are there any UI libs I should take a closer look at?

maiden dragon Jun 20, 2020, 7:41 PM

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I am trying to get WX python to talk to a program (essentially read and write to a engineering simulation program) but the program seems to have very little documentation on its API it seems it was meant to be used with VBA/Excel i know it can be done because the grad students (im just an undergrad) im working with have a little bit of functional code but im having a little trouble figuring out how the knew to write what they wrote any tips for how to better understand this code

sudden coral Jun 20, 2020, 7:44 PM

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@willow crow Check out Kivy too. I don't know if Qt or Kivy lend it self well to those kinds of interactions, as I've never designed such a UI myself.

willow crow Jun 20, 2020, 9:27 PM

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ah, cool. will do!

hot sapphire Jun 21, 2020, 1:39 AM

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say i have design an app/website layout where should i start in python to create a workable demo

sage crown Jun 21, 2020, 12:38 PM

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Hey, has anyone tried making a "Message Encrypter" app with Python.

maiden dragon Jun 21, 2020, 6:42 PM

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does anyone know how to do this in wxPython:
i have a pannel that basically has a bitmap that takes up the whole thing as the background picture. I want to make some sort of transparent buttons/dialog on the bitmap so when you click parts of it you get a popup and then i can add functionality to that dialog box

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maiden dragon Jun 21, 2020, 6:59 PM

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curently looking into subbitmap

dapper plume Jun 21, 2020, 6:59 PM

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hi all! i was wondering if there is a pyqt5 specific discord? (or maybe this is essentially that)

static cove Jun 21, 2020, 7:15 PM

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There is a Qt Discord which might have a pyqt channel/section. Not sure how active it is though. https://wiki.qt.io/Online_Communities
@dapper plume

dapper plume Jun 21, 2020, 11:35 PM

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thanks @static cove!

opal verge Jun 21, 2020, 11:51 PM

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What might be going wrong here?

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It can't seem to find tkinter, I'm on python 3.6.7

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I've also tried installing it, seems to be there

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I'm also using the Windows Subsystem for Linux

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static cove Jun 22, 2020, 12:12 AM

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well, it is seeing the tkinter library for python3. Not sure about that error though. Maybe something with this?: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/38294/error-when-attempting-to-create-python-gui-using-tkinter-no-display-name-and-n

Seems to be an issue with ssh sessions @opal verge

tribal path Jun 22, 2020, 1:28 AM

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there is no screen/display setup on wsl by default so you'd need to address that.

cinder sorrel Jun 22, 2020, 3:43 AM

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Anyone familiar with the Eel library?

safe gorge Jun 22, 2020, 9:44 PM

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i trying use Eel, but i having trouble with AsyncIO

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 12:18 AM

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Has anyone used tkinter(python3 version) and worked with OpenMenu. When I looked up OpenMenu I found that you can execute a fuction by setting "command=func" but they where using Tkinter(python2 version) and It seems to not work in python3

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Hoping this is a better channel to ask this on

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basically I need to execute a function when someone selects an option from an OpenMenu

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@opal verge it looks like you might have python 2.7 or something like that (Tkinter = python2)

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tkinter is what it is called in python3

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have you tried with "python3" instead of "python"

opal verge Jun 23, 2020, 12:25 AM

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i tried that as well

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it's fine, i decided to not use the WSL

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 12:27 AM

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I think you might need to use pip/pip3. I'm on Linux

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when using virtualenv I have to do a pip3 install

static cove Jun 23, 2020, 12:29 AM

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@indigo socket Is OpenMenu a specific library or do you mean the OptionMenu in tkinter?

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 12:29 AM

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yep

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I was talking about OpenMenu which I don't know how make a function call on change

static cove Jun 23, 2020, 12:33 AM

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I'm not familiar with an OpenMenu in relation to tkinter, only OptionMenu.
But have you looked at StringVars and traces in tkinter to track changes and execute functions on changes?

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 12:34 AM

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yep. looks like that will work. Just found some code on it.

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At some point I started searching for "OpenMenu" and have not been getting good results

static cove Jun 23, 2020, 12:36 AM

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Well, in tkinter OpenMenu isn't a class or thing you can call. But OptionMenu is a class that tkinter has and you can use.

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 12:37 AM

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Yea I must have typed it in the search engine and litterally have been looking for over an hour for something that does not exist

cinder sorrel Jun 23, 2020, 12:45 AM

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Could I turn my eel project into a website instead of like an app thing

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I want to host it

indigo socket Jun 23, 2020, 2:05 AM

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In tkinter how would I go about having a dropdown list of images specifically svg to select from

mellow sail Jun 23, 2020, 9:50 AM

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I have a question about tkinter and how to find paths to executables and run them when i press a button. I already have the buttons only need to know how i can find the paths to the executables and run them. you can contact me in DM or in this channel what you prefer.

stone ivy Jun 23, 2020, 4:58 PM

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how do you claim channel

digital rose Jun 23, 2020, 5:50 PM

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fuck me

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jk

digital rose Jun 23, 2020, 6:15 PM

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Is there a way to create clickable text in the screen for user input?

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Not using GUI.

maiden dragon Jun 24, 2020, 1:17 AM

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but clickable text is a GUI?

harsh quarry Jun 24, 2020, 4:50 AM

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hey, i'm having an issue with coloring for first time boot up of my python script. Left is when the script is internally restarted, Right is the first time bootup

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digital rose Jun 24, 2020, 6:47 AM

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any tkinter fans here

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or are you more of a pyqt guy

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or maybe a kivy kind of guy

sharp jackal Jun 24, 2020, 8:16 AM

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pyqt

orchid holly Jun 24, 2020, 8:48 AM

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I am still learning and I was looking into learning something for GUI development. Tkinter looked interesting and then my cousin said: Go for PyGt

digital rose Jun 24, 2020, 8:51 AM

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i prefer pyqt since i started with that

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imgui is worth looking too

indigo socket Jun 24, 2020, 12:06 PM

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anyone know of a way to have an OptionMenu scrollable(I have more options then fit on the screen)

buoyant cove Jun 24, 2020, 12:18 PM

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hi, I'm using the pyqt designer and trying to remove this bar across the bottom of the window im working on but not sure what its called or how to remove it

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static cove Jun 24, 2020, 12:51 PM

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I use tkinter for a lot of early prototyping/proof of concepts, but I'm currently transitioning a proof of concept to pyqt. I'm really enjoying PyQt, especially their threading implementation and slots/signals method.

digital rose Jun 24, 2020, 1:54 PM

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In Tkinter, are these functions to use already made file/folder path dialogs considered modal? Since it seems like they can run outside of the root mainloop function

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just wondering what kind of affect they would have if I call these pre-made dialogs then call my custom dialog using mainloop()

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scratch that, I cant actually display my root widget after calling these dialogs before mainloop

digital rose Jun 24, 2020, 2:40 PM

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man tk is such a pita to get a custom dialog and these premade dialogs working sequentially

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I basically want to display the pre-made folder and file path input dialogs

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perform some functions then display my custom dialog

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can you make use of multiple root objects? Ive read that might be frowned up style wise

brazen fulcrum Jun 24, 2020, 4:32 PM

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hi, I'm using the pyqt designer and trying to remove this bar across the bottom of the window im working on but not sure what its called or how to remove it
i have this problem too

indigo socket Jun 24, 2020, 6:59 PM

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about my question for tkinter makeing the OptionMenu scrollable. It seems like that is not possible. Can someone confirm if pyqt supports something like this for ComboBoxes(like I have 100+items. So it is larger then the screen)

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Just got the Qt Designer setup. Looks like it has the feature default

digital rose Jun 24, 2020, 9:54 PM

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Anybody have an issue with buttons on Mac OS and tkinter. When you click on the button it registers but does not go blue?

tribal pier Jun 24, 2020, 10:38 PM

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@buoyant cove
@brazen fulcrum
to me, this looks like QStatusBar ...
in Qt Designer a QMainWindow has a QMenuBar and a QStatusBar by default,
you can just remove the status bar or them both if you want

digital rose Jun 25, 2020, 12:55 AM

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#python-discussion message Can anyone answer my question? If no, say so please.

static cove Jun 25, 2020, 1:09 AM

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@digital rose Can I recommend the tkinter class/module scrolltext? It's a bit easier to set-up and deal with in my experience.
docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.scrolledtext.html

Also, your scrollbar should work, it does for me. If you add enough text in the text area for it to have to scroll, you'll see that it does scroll and the scrollbar works as intended.

digital rose Jun 25, 2020, 1:56 AM

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Error: AttributeError: 'DevEDitor' object has no attribute 'new_file'Code: https://hastebin.com/gulematifi.rb

brazen fulcrum Jun 25, 2020, 8:22 AM

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to me, this looks like QStatusBar ...
in Qt Designer a QMainWindow has a QMenuBar and a QStatusBar by default,
you can just remove the status bar or them both if you want
@tribal pierthx!

tribal pier Jun 25, 2020, 8:23 AM

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@brazen fulcrum were you able to remove it?

brazen fulcrum Jun 25, 2020, 8:24 AM

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in qt desginer

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just do it!

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))

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tribal pier Jun 25, 2020, 8:26 AM

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yeah, that's what i thought 👍

brazen fulcrum Jun 25, 2020, 8:26 AM

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))

indigo socket Jun 25, 2020, 2:55 PM

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Does anyone know how to setup "PyQT5" to communicate with "picamera"(raspberry pi camera library)

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I found information on using OpenCV(which I'm using anyways) which used teh VideoCapture mode but that causes distortions since I wank 4K resolution(which is limited to 15 frames)

digital rose Jun 25, 2020, 9:02 PM

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how to check if a user is trying to close the program, tkinter

digital rose Jun 26, 2020, 3:02 PM

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hey

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does anyone know how to connect python and electronjs?

storm flume Jun 26, 2020, 7:43 PM

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jes

odd lichen Jun 26, 2020, 9:28 PM

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Hey everyone! Can someone help me understand how tqdm works? I'm trying to implement a progress bar for a list comprehension and don't know if I maybe should rewrite it to use a standard for loop

dapper plume Jun 27, 2020, 8:51 AM

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hey all...i'm using pyqt5 and trying to enable/disable a submenu based on a setting in my preferences window. The app itself doesn't have a main window. I'm trying to figure out how best to find/reference the menu items I want to update. I feel like I need to use .findchild, but i dont quiet know what the parent would be.

keen laurel Jun 27, 2020, 11:25 AM

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Anyway to fast close window A and show B. (Switching windows) in PyQt5?

untold pecan Jun 27, 2020, 12:28 PM

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hello, i'm new to python and i want to make a graphical user interface in a desktop application, in C++, i used MFC, is there a similarly easy way to make a graphical interface just like, dragging some buttons and telling it to call this function when the button is pressed or some other way?

karmic shoal Jun 27, 2020, 1:28 PM

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@untold pecan There's a library called PySide2, which is a wrapper around the Qt widget toolkit that's written in C++ (if you're familiar with it, it'll be a good choice)

valid violet Jun 27, 2020, 3:10 PM

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how do i make it so that when i run my tkinter program, it doesn't start of so small?

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wow this chat is dead

static cove Jun 27, 2020, 3:43 PM

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You can set a geometry for the window or set a minimum size for tkinter.

static cove Jun 27, 2020, 5:21 PM

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@valid violet Specifically:

root = tk.TK()
root.geometry('600x800') # width x height
# OR!
root.minsize(600, 800) # width x height

valid violet Jun 28, 2020, 3:19 AM

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oh thanks!

digital rose Jun 28, 2020, 12:15 PM

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Hello I have a problem I have a matplotlib figuree with a button and I would like to see a spinner when I click on the button but it does not work unfortunately...

Could you help me please ? Below is my code :

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import time
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.widgets import Button
from pyqtspinner.spinner import WaitingSpinner

freqs = np.arange(2, 20, 3)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2)
t = np.arange(0.0, 1.0, 0.001)
s = np.sin(2*np.pi*freqs[0]*t)
l, = plt.plot(t, s, lw=2)


class Index(object):
    ind = 0

    def next(self, event):
        self.ind += 1
        i = self.ind % len(freqs)
        ydata = np.sin(2*np.pi*freqs[i]*t)
        l.set_ydata(ydata)
        plt.draw()


callback = Index()
axnext = plt.axes([0.81, 0.05, 0.1, 0.075])
bnext = Button(axnext, 'Next')

def process():
    spin = WaitingSpinner(
        fig,
        roundness=70.0, opacity=15.0,
        fade=70.0, radius=10.0, lines=12,
        line_length=10.0, line_width=5.0,
        speed=1.0, color=(0, 0, 0)
    )

    def the_proc():
        time.sleep(10)
        callback.next
    

    def animated_loading(self):
        spin.start()

    the_process = threading.Thread(name='process', target=the_proc())
    while the_process.isAlive():
        animated_loading()

bnext.on_clicked(process)

plt.show()```

tribal pier Jun 28, 2020, 4:47 PM

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Hey, can someone help me translate this little Qt/C++ snippet to PyQt/Python

QWidget vpcWidget = new QWidget();
QPushButton *pBtn = new QPushButton();
pBtn->setParent(vpcWidget);
QGraphicsDropShadowEffect* effect = new QGraphicsDropShadowEffect();
effect->setBlurRadius(1);  //Adjust accordingly
effect->setOffset(3,3);  //Adjust accordingly
pBtn->setGraphicsEffect(effect);
vpcWidget->show();

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So far I have this

vpc_widget = QWidget()
p_btn = QPushButton(vpc_Widget)
# ...
p_btn.setGraphicsEffect(effect)
vpc_widget.show()

sudden coral Jun 28, 2020, 4:53 PM

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Remove the semicolons and replace the arrows with dots

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Don't include the asterisks, the type at the front of the variable assignments, and "new"

tribal pier Jun 28, 2020, 4:55 PM

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Okay, thx ... but how about this piece?

QGraphicsDropShadowEffect* effect = new QGraphicsDropShadowEffect();
effect->setBlurRadius(1);  //Adjust accordingly
effect->setOffset(3,3);  //Adjust accordingly
pBtn->setGraphicsEffect(effect);

sudden coral Jun 28, 2020, 4:55 PM

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Yes everything I said applies to that

tribal pier Jun 28, 2020, 4:57 PM

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In this way?

effect = QGraphicsDropShadowEffect()
effect.setBlurRadius(1)  # Adjust accordingly
effect.setOffset(3,3)  # Adjust accordingly
pBtn.setGraphicsEffect(effect)

sudden coral Jun 28, 2020, 4:57 PM

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Yes

tribal pier Jun 28, 2020, 5:00 PM

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@sudden coral
Thanks, you have confirmed my assumptions. That was really helpful 👍
Btw. would you say that it's easier to learn C++ if someone is good at Python?
And if yes, how much easier?

sudden coral Jun 28, 2020, 5:10 PM

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You're welcome

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If you're good at one language it's generally easier to learn any other language. How much easier is not really quantifiable and it depends from person to person, as well as what being "good" in Python means.

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C++ has some concepts you wont be familiar with in Python for example, templating and pointers. But that's off topic for this channel.

tribal pier Jun 28, 2020, 5:13 PM

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Thank you, that's all I wanted to know

stiff forge Jun 28, 2020, 5:26 PM

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Hey, I need a bit of help. This is pretty simple, although since this is my first project I'm a bit confused. The problem is, I'm trying to update/configure the text of a widget in tkinter after a certain amount of time. I know tkinter has the .after() function for this, however whenever I try using the .after function it stops the GUI from showing up for the time I set in ms in the .after function rather than it waiting said time to execute the said code while the GUI is open. Can someone help?

from tkinter import *
from config import settings

class maingui:
    def __init__(self):
        self.gui = Tk()
        self.gui.title("Longinus")
        self.consoleframe = Frame(self.gui)
        self.consoleframe.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X)
        self.consolelabel = Label(self.consoleframe, text="Console Output")
        self.consolelabel.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)
        self.consolemessage = "Awaiting Console Output..."
        self.consoleoutput = Message(self.consoleframe, text=self.consolemessage, relief=SUNKEN, justify=CENTER,
                                     aspect=10000)
        self.consoleoutput.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X)
    def changemessage(self, message):
         self.consoleoutput.configure(text=message)

    def mainloop(self):
        self.gui.mainloop()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    n = maingui()
    n.gui.after(1000,n.changemessage(message="test"))
    n.mainloop()

static cove Jun 28, 2020, 10:34 PM

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@stiff forge So your gui won't actually launch until n.mainloop(). That's the command that launches it.
.after() calls a function after a given delay. It can behaving similarly to time.sleep. It'll stop n.mainloop() from executing until after it's done waiting and executing the function.

In terms of executing what you want, take a look at this StackOverflow. It's implementing a timer using tkinter, but I think you can take a look at the logic and adapt it for changing the label.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2400262/how-to-create-a-timer-using-tkinter

stiff forge Jun 28, 2020, 10:53 PM

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Interesting, thanks for the answer, my main issue really is trying to make the program logic w/ tkinter logic, since this is kind of the first time I made a GUI period

static cove Jun 29, 2020, 1:46 AM

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@stiff forge Well if more questions or problems pop up feel free to ask them here or in a help channel~

dapper plume Jun 29, 2020, 5:39 AM

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Hi all...can someone offer any assistance on how best to elide a string (i.e truncate to fit and add ... to it) with a multi-line label in pyqt5? It seems the elidedText function only handles a single line. I'd like to show as many lines as fit and then elide the last one.

noble granite Jun 29, 2020, 11:21 AM

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I am working on CNN currently. how i can get no of training samples in one variable and no. of testing samples in second variable? now i am getting this way Found 807 images belonging to 23 classes. Found 164 images belonging to 23 classes. how i can save it like "train_samples" = 807 and "test_samples" = 164 etc this way? i need these variables in cnn algorithm

static cove Jun 29, 2020, 12:58 PM

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@noble granite This question is probably better suited for the #data-science-and-ml channel. This channel doesn't deal with CNNs or other ML/AI type of stuff.

maiden dragon Jun 29, 2020, 10:55 PM

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    def __do_bind(self):
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_SIZE, self.on_fig_size)
        # self.Bind(wx.EVT_BOOKCTRL_PAGE_CHANGED, self.onSetValues, self.Notebook)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onStartButton, self.panel_left.startbutton)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onSPButton, buttonid)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onSetParams, Paramsid)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_TIMER, self.onPlot, self.timer)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.OnExit)

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i have this class just for handeling events the on SPbutton works fine so i tried to set the onSetParams up identically but nothing happens when i click it

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at first i was getting errors but i fixed them all and now nothing happens

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both buttons are part of their own classes that arent in the same class that _do_bind is part of

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https://gyazo.com/49e9aabcff075a9efefa31bd2ee0ba64

Gyazo

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this is also wtirren at the very top of the file not in any class

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think anyone here could help me troubleshoot this

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:09 AM

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@maiden dragon You're using wxPython?

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@digital rose Do you still need help with the spinner/matplotlib thing?

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:16 AM

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Yes wx python and matplotlib isn't the problem least not at the moment

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:21 AM

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What is .onSetParams supposed to do that it's not doing?

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:26 AM

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So I have a a dialog box with a button that says set parameters

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Onsetparameters is it's event I commented out everything but a print statement just so I know its working

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:28 AM

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And the .onSPButton is working though?

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:28 AM

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yes

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i would paste all the code but one its like 500 lines and two its for my university and im being paid for it so i doubt they would appreciate that

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i can copy some more of the sections ill just need to reopen my vpn into the system lol

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:29 AM

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Just to double check one more thing, do you have the event.Skip() at the end of the first handler or have you tried commenting out the .onSPButton and then trying it again?

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:30 AM

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i think i do im going to grab the def statemnt for you

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unfortunately i didn't write most of the code I'm picking up where someone left off and its pretty complex

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https://gyazo.com/b0a4f5eec71bbc9408a9f629ecb37838

Gyazo

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:31 AM

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No worries~ I PERFECTLY understand the struggle. I am also in the midst of picking up an old wxPython application coded by someone else in Python 2.5 and have to make some upgrades to it at work.

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:32 AM

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so it seems i did coment out event skip

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:32 AM

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So, you want an event.Skip() in onSPButton

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:33 AM

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the idea is for the GUI to hook into another program and read and write to it

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i see is that because i aded a new def under it?

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:33 AM

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That'll allow the event to keep going through different handlers and not get eaten at the first handler.

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Or wait. Hold on. I think I have that backwards.
I remember something about wxPython binding order impacting the order they're called in.

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:34 AM

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https://gyazo.com/02948799d7453c81b8ca4d219b8a9f7e just in case this helps

Gyazo

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https://gyazo.com/611abf59aff494ea0cbde82fc0cd217a

Gyazo

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do you think i should add an event.skip() to both onsp and onstart

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:35 AM

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I think so. That'll allow that event to keep going through the handlers, in whatever order they're called

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:36 AM

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ok ill try that

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one of my biggest problems is there seems to be no API on how the code talks to the program it hooks into

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rather no documentation so all i have is the code that has been written to go from

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if i recall it was meant to go through VBA more so than python

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:39 AM

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Eek. That sounds profoundly not fun.

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:39 AM

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so i just tried this

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https://gyazo.com/f2c1edbc39849f8cf0b7bf6cc27dfca7

Gyazo

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but i still get no error and no print statement its like it doesnt see that there is an event when i click the button

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i very much appreicate the help but may just need to contact the grad students that I am under and ask for their assistance tomorrow haha

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:42 AM

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Yeaaaah. I am curious how __do_bind is being called though. But I think that'll involve me looking at more of the code, which you probably won't feel comfortable with. I'll still take a look a bit longer and dig into some documentation in case I find anything.

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:43 AM

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thanks yeah i wish i could just upload a file but with it being a public university i doubt that's wise

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thanks for what the insight you have. I never have really had any formal coding classes so im really trying to teach myself everything aha

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i guess i had one sorta and then matlab for engineers

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if it helps __do_bind is a method (think thats the right term) of the frame and spbutton is part of one of the pannels

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my button is inside of a dialog box

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could be an inheritance thing but thats been tricky to figure out so far

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 2:46 AM

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Hurm. I know there's an odd thing with .Bind and Events. Give this a read and see if it applies? https://wiki.wxpython.org/self.Bind vs. self.button.Bind

maiden dragon Jun 30, 2020, 2:46 AM

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will do TYVM

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 5:16 PM

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@frozen copper .main_loop() needs to be called last. It's what launches the GUI and is a blocking function.

analog stump Jun 30, 2020, 5:59 PM

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Hello.
I just tried the default tkinter color picker.
I want to add the functionality to use hex codes in the color chooser.
I tried searching around on the internet and stack a bit. Couldn't find anything useful.
Can anybody help please?

digital rose Jun 30, 2020, 7:04 PM

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I know that they're functionally similar and such, but is PyQt5 or pyside2 more adopted/recommended?

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I'm tempted to go with PyQt5 because GPL3

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Hi - not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm trying to use pywinauto to get the current Chrome URL. I found an answer on stackoverflow that does work, but it runs too slowly and I would want it to be near-instant. Is there any way I can do this without using selenium? Here's the code that I would like to optimize:

from pywinauto import Application
app = Application(backend='uia')
app.connect(title_re=".*Chrome.*")
dlg = app.top_window()
url = dlg.child_window(title="Address and search bar", control_type="Edit").get_value()
print(url)

static cove Jun 30, 2020, 8:58 PM

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@digital rose I know PySide2 is more recommended these days since it's more supported and has documentation that's more python friendly. (PyQt5 docs is just the C++ docs, so to convert you need to be familiar with C++).

I know some people prefer the LGPL licensing because it allows them to use in proprietary programs.

rocky dragon Jun 30, 2020, 9:27 PM

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Pyqt has had more time so it's used a bit more and is more mature in some ways. They wrap the same framework so you can look through the pyside docs which are just gradually translated c++ docs with some python spcific principles sprinkled on top. Usually it comes down to licensing which is more permissive with PySide2

remote sinew Jul 1, 2020, 2:10 AM

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Is there any python GUI library that works almost exactly like css? I’m trying to make a very simple python program but the GUI makes it way more complex. Any extremely easy GUIs out there?

sudden coral Jul 1, 2020, 2:13 AM

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Tkinter is usually the go to for an "easy" GUI, but it's limit and frankly not very good in my opinion.

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If you're looking for something with a declarative syntax there's Kivy with KV lang and Qt with QML.

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Qt also has the Qt Creator IDE which comes with a UI designer. It lets you drag and drop controls to design the UI, similar to Windows Forms in Visual Studio.

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But with all that said, you cannot totally avoid writing Python code. After all, you need to make your UI do stuff.

remote sinew Jul 1, 2020, 2:15 AM

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Ok thanks for the suggestions!

copper sapphire Jul 1, 2020, 12:42 PM

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Does anyone know how to get a context menu to work only on specific QTreeView rows? (PySide2 question)
What I want to accomplish is have a context menu that is triggered on right-click which has a provides a menu to delete a certain item that was right clicked.
The problem is that right-click works on anything
Not just the QTreeView rows, which I need it to do
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me how to set this up

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 12:51 PM

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@copper sapphire How are you setting up the context menu now? Can you use a CustomContextMenu on the QTreeView? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt.html#ContextMenuPolicy-enum

acoustic shoal Jul 1, 2020, 1:03 PM

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Anyone familiar with Tkinter, is there a method that runs every second that I can use to listen for an "event" from a different thread?

copper sapphire Jul 1, 2020, 1:06 PM

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@static cove `def contextMenuEvent(self, event):
self.menu = QMenu(self)
delete_action = QAction('Remove', self)

delete_action.triggered.connect(self.delete_row)

self.menu.addAction(delete_action)
self.menu.popup(QtGui.QCursor.pos())`

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 1:13 PM

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@copper sapphire Well, this is how I would approach it.
Set the contextMenu for QTreeView to customContextMenu. Then connect the right click on the QTreeView signal (I think the signal is your_tree_view.customContextMenuRequested) to your contextMenuEvent.

I believe that should only trigger when you right click on the QTreeView since it's now tied to that specific signal

copper sapphire Jul 1, 2020, 1:14 PM

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Alright, thanks a lot, I'll try that

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 1:16 PM

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@acoustic shoal tkinter doesn't really incorporate threading like some other GUI frameworks. What type of event are you listening to and what do you expect the GUI to do in response?

acoustic shoal Jul 1, 2020, 1:18 PM

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Thanks for the reply,
This is what I'm trying to do:
Thread1 is a Tkinter window, I want it to reload an image every time Thread2 writes to it

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Thread2 "sets" an event whenever the image is written to. All I want to do is make it so that Thread1 (tkinter) listens to that event and updates

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 1:36 PM

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Well, this would probably be a lot easier using PyQt/PySide2s signal/slot methods. But alas, this is tkinter. (I do highly recommend checking out PyQt/PySide2 if you're going to do more with threads and GUIs).

For tkinter, you could make use of the .after() function.
Here's a link to code using .after() for a timer. https://riptutorial.com/tkinter/example/22870/-after--
You could adapt it that so that every second (or whatever time interval you want) it checks for if the event has occurred. You do reload the image and then go back to checking for if the event has occurred.

For a quick use type of situation you can just set/check a variable for if there's a new event. But you probably want to use Queue objects to make it more thread safe. I haven't don't much with tkinter and Queue, but this seems like a good SO explaining it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7141509/tkinter-wait-for-item-in-queue

acoustic shoal Jul 1, 2020, 1:42 PM

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I already regret using tkinter, I wont be touching it again after this. I'm even considering rewriting this later with something like PyQt but it would be too much trouble for now. Thank you for your reply. Let me try and get it to work and i'll let you know if I can solve it 🙂

mystic citrus Jul 1, 2020, 2:19 PM

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Does anyone have experience with PyGTK?

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I'm stuck trying to get dimensions of a widget, as all the methods I can find return 0

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 4:08 PM

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Are you mixing using .grid() and .pack() inside the same Frame to place widgets? Tkinter is fairly picky about not mixing .grid() and .pack() inside the same Frame.

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:46 PM

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sup

snow vigil Jul 1, 2020, 4:46 PM

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@subtle otter hi

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:46 PM

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what's the problem

snow vigil Jul 1, 2020, 4:47 PM

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So I'm making a bot for a flash based pokemon game and one of the key things I enjoyed doing when I was playing in the browser was using cheat-engine to speedhack the game so I could complete things much faster

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Now, I'm using PyQt5 to launch this game in a python environment with the WebEngine and I've tried to directly speed up the python process but it gets really choppy compared to with a normal browser

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so esentially my problem is that I want to figure out how to speed up the flash-game part of the process, not necessarily everything else

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I'm not sure how I would go about extracting the PID directly from the WebEngine, if that's even possible

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:49 PM

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pid of what exactly

snow vigil Jul 1, 2020, 4:50 PM

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the shockwave/flash player that the game is running in

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:50 PM

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I don't think that's possible

snow vigil Jul 1, 2020, 4:51 PM

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But its very strange if the entire webengine is a single process

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considering it allows for lots of plugins etc

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and everything runs perfectly well as long as its not been tinkered with

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 4:52 PM

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if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        if hwid in re.text:
            #Q("License Valid.")
            r = requests.get("https://pastebin.com/raw/kqbGPC")
            Links = r.text.split("\r\n")
            if os.path.isfile(filename): loaddata()
            else: save()
            if userLimit == 0: 
                exitbrowser()
                #time.sleep(3)
                sys.exit()
        else:
            Q('[ERROR] HWID Not in database')
            driver.quit()
            os._exit(0)
    except:
        Q('[ERROR] Failed to connect to database')
        #time.sleep(3) 
        driver.quit()
        os._exit(0)

app.aboutToQuit.connect(exitbrowser)      
call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(StartMailer)  
call.pushButton_7.clicked.connect(spamAssassin) 
call.show()
app.exec()```
My GUI is not responding after pressing a button
How to use Qthread to call the function in different thread and keep GUI running?

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@static cove

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:53 PM

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are you using tkinter? @digital rose

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 4:54 PM

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How are you using QThread currently?

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That's PyQt5, at least it should be with those signals/slots at the end.

subtle otter Jul 1, 2020, 4:55 PM

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time.sleep() isnt a good idea

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 4:56 PM

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I am using pyqt5

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@static cove i mno

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i am not using pyQthread

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from PyQt5 import QtWidgets,uic

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
call = uic.loadUi("Main.ui")

\\ my program code here```

snow vigil Jul 1, 2020, 4:58 PM

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@subtle otter it has its own PID for the browser

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I just don't know how to get it lmao

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 4:59 PM

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@static cove

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 5:01 PM

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@digital rose Well, if you're just getting started with threading and PyQt, I do recommend going through this tutorial to get an understanding of how PyQt handles and implements threading and singals/slosts across threads. https://www.learnpyqt.com/courses/concurrent-execution/multithreading-pyqt-applications-qthreadpool/

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:02 PM

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but my code syntax is different from theirs.

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from PyQt5 import QtWidgets,uic

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
call = uic.loadUi("Main.ui")
Q = print

senderaddress = ""
name = "root"
subject = "adam"
body = ""
reply = ""
messageType = "html"

def StartMailer(): #Main 
    declare()
    if  useProxy == True: Q("checking Proxies"), proxychecker(proxypath)
    checker()
    main()

def declare():
    senderaddress = call.lineEdit_3.text()
    name = call.lineEdit_2.text()
    subject = call.lineEdit_4.text()
    reply = call.lineEdit_5.text()
    body = call.lineEdit_9.toPlainText()

app.aboutToQuit.connect(exitbrowser)     
call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(StartMailer)  
call.show()
app.exec()```

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 5:14 PM

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@digital rose So what function/piece of code do you want to run in a thread?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:14 PM

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I want to run startmailer function in thread

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when pushButton_3 is clicked

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:32 PM

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?

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@static cove

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 5:35 PM

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Alright, well I still recommend reading that tutorial so you get an idea of how PyQt implements its different threading wrappers.

Generally, with PyQt, you want to create a Worker class that's subclassed off of QObject. You can create your signals under this class as well as the functions you'd like to run in a separate thread.

So generally, :

class Worker(QObject):
    finished = pyqtSignal()

    @pyqtSlot()
    def your_func(self):
        print("Do whatever you'd like to do in this function that should run in a different thread")
        self.finished.emit()

# I like to use QThreadPool
threadpool = QThreadPool()
worker1 = Worker() # You're creating the worker
worker1.signals.finished.connect(function_after_its_done_running)
# Above is if you need to catch the signal
threadpool.start(worker1.your_func) # This starts the thread

In your case, I would create a function that encapsulates the creation of that worker and the call to the worker function. Then the pushButton_3.clicked.connect() could slot into that function.

Here's a SO that also explains a few different ways to go about it and will also show using QThread instead of QThreadPool.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6783194/background-thread-with-qthread-in-pyqt

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:37 PM

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@static cove alright

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but i dont understand signal and emit

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what is the use of that

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pyqtSignal().emit()

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can i use the function without signal

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 5:39 PM

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One way that I use this is I have a program that plots data I pull in from equipment real-time. I use a worker to continually check/pull new data from equipment. The data is stored in a database. But I want to let my GUI know that there's new data to plot. So I use a signal to send back to the GUI that there's new data and to run a refresh_plot() function.

You don't need the signal, I just included it in case you do need to use it.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:40 PM

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ah okay

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do i have to all these before

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call.show() and
app.exec()

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 5:42 PM

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I would put this before the call.show() and app.exec(), yes.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 5:47 PM

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class Worker(QObject):
    @pyqtSlot()
    def startM(self):
        threadpool.start(StartMailer)```

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threadpool = QThreadPool()
worker1 = Worker()
app.aboutToQuit.connect(exitbrowser)      
call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(worker1.startM)   
call.show()
app.exec()```

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@static cove

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is this correct?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:09 PM

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@static cove QThreadPool module not available

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how to import

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PyQt5.QtCore does not have this module

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:15 PM

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@digital rose That should work, you can test it and find out.

A note: I was double checking documentation on QThread and QThreadPool. You may want to switch to QThread for your application.

If you want to use QThread and not QThreadPool, then change startM to either be your StartMailer function or just call the StartMailer function. Your code should be as follows to use QThread:

thread = QThread()
worker1 = Worker()
worker1.moveToThread(thread)
thread.started.connect(worker1.startM) #This allows thread.start() to kick off worker1.startM()
app.aboutToQuit.connect(exitbrowser)      
call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(thread.start)   
call.show()
app.exec()

I like using QThreadPool because my programs have the ability to spawn off several many threads and it makes management easier. But I have my program set-up differently and I don't spawn a worker until I need it. QThreadPool will delete a QRunnable if you don't use it for 30 seconds.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:18 PM

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No name 'QThreadPool' in module 'PyQt5.QtCore'

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@static cove

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No name 'pyqtSlot' in module 'PyQt5.QtCore'

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:21 PM

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That's odd. PyQt5.QtCore definitely has those things.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:21 PM

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from PyQt5 import QtWidgets,uic
from PyQt5.QtCore import QObject,QThreadPool
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSlot

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static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:23 PM

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Oh, which pylint are you running? Does that stop you from executing the code? Also, I would change from QThreadPool to QThread for what you're doing

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:23 PM

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Let me execute the code

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call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(worker1.startM)
call.pushButton_7.clicked.connect(spamAssassin)

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@static cove

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i have many more buttons

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how will i implement all

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call.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(thread.start)

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where is thread.start defined

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thread.started.connect(worker1.startM)

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:41 PM

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.start() is a method that thread has, since it's an instance of the QThread class. It emits a signal of started. When it does that you're telling the worker (which is in that thread that's now running) to begin the startM() function.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:44 PM

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and

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:44 PM

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You can set-up a worker/thread pair for each button/function that you need to run. That'll allow you access to the thread in case you need to terminate it. If you don't need access to thread once it starts, you could change how the code is set-up so you'll have a function that creates the workers and threads as you need them.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:44 PM

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what about multiple buttons

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does threadpool auto terminate the thread

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once the function is finished

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:48 PM

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QThreadPool by default will automatically delete the thread once it's finished. If you want to use QThreadPool, you need to change the Worker class to subclass QRunnable, not QObject.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:49 PM

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ah thanks

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it is working and im using threadpool

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but when i execute the program it takes a little time to open the gui

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:54 PM

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Hmmmm... I'm not sure about it taking a bit longer to open.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 6:54 PM

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how would i display value stored in a string

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to lineEdit or textEdit box

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@static cove

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i store using
call.lineEdit.text()

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 6:58 PM

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So you pull in a value from somewhere and would like to display it in a QLineEdit or QTextEdit widget?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:00 PM

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yes

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:03 PM

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QLineEdit has a method called .setText() that you can use to set the text.
your_qlineedit_widget.setText(var_that_has_your_text)
That'll set the text for that widget.

Here's the property for QLineEdit.text() https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qlineedit.html#text-prop. You can see it has two access functions: text() and setText().

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:06 PM

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what about

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qtextedit

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:08 PM

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For QTextEdit you have a couple of different options. Here's the docs for it https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html
You can input HTML, Markdown, or plainText for QTextEdit. I'm going to assume you want plainText.

To set it for QTextEdit: you_qtextedit_widget.setPlainText(your_string)

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:15 PM

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i mean

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I have a big QeditText box

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I want to print various things on that box

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like command line display

#

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@static cove how can i do like when i click on Qpushbutton , it will open a window to select the file, and the file path should be set in the QlineEdit box next to it

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:24 PM

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Here's how I would approach that:
QPushButton launches a process_file() function.
That process_file() function would then open a QFileDialog (docs: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/PySide2/QtWidgets/QFileDialog.html). This widget allows the user to select a file and it returns the filename.
I would then store that filename somewhere in a variable. Then user QLineEdit's .setText() method to set the text to that filename.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:36 PM

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@static cove

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i want to store the file path not filename

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:42 PM

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.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName will return an existing file selected by the user. You can read more about it here:https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/PySide2/QtWidgets/QFileDialog.html#PySide2.QtWidgets.PySide2.QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName

The static functions are useful for quick and easy operations.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:43 PM

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do i have to create custom dialog

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can't i use window's dialog like the default dialog shown when we try to upload or open file

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:44 PM

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QFileDialog will default to using the system's native file handler/explorer. You shouldn't have to create your own, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:47 PM

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call.pushButton.clicked.coonect

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:47 PM

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For instance, this is my code for having the user select an image:

img_location = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, caption="Select Image", filter='Image files (*.jpg *.jpeg *.gif *.png)')

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:47 PM

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and how to trigger this code

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when user presses button

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i mean how to trigger QfileDialog

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:51 PM

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So I would generally try to put the getting the filename and then setting the filename as in a QLineEdit widget into a function. Then the button could call this function to process/open the file.

def process_file():
    filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName()
    qlineedit_widget.setText(filename)
    print("Anything else we need to do like saving that filename somewhere else")

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:58 PM

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filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, caption="Select Text File", filter='Text files (*.txt)')
NameError: name 'QFileDialog' is not defined

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@static cove

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:58 PM

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Did you import QFileDialog?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:58 PM

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nope

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whats the code to import

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 7:59 PM

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It's in PyQt5.QtWidgets

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 7:59 PM

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ive imported QtWidgets

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:00 PM

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You may need to specifically import it. I don't know if it's under the *
I should probably go look at the code and see what's included with *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QFileDialog

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:02 PM

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from PyQt5 import QtWidgets,uic

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call.lineEdit_6.setText(filename)
TypeError: setText(self, str): argument 1 has unexpected type 'tuple'

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def process_file():
    filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Select Text File", filter='Text files (*.txt)')
    call.lineEdit_6.setText(filename)```

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@static cove

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:10 PM

#

Oh, you can do:
filename, sel_filter = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Select Text File", filter='Text files (*.txt)')

QFileDialog.getOpenFileName returns two things:
(fileName, selectedFilter). So you want to make sure you grab just the fileName and not the filter.

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I forgot about that, my bad!

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:11 PM

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i want to grab the file path

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if the fine is in c://users/com/downloads/file.txt

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i want to grab this full path

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:12 PM

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By filename I mean filepath. You can print the filename to check that it's outputting like that.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:12 PM

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okay thanks a lot

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:34 PM

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@static cove

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File "c:/Users/com/Downloads/mailer.py", line 182, in paste_keys
with open(path) as file: # Open our file
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

#

path=""

#

def declare():
    senderaddress = call.lineEdit_3.text()
    name = call.lineEdit_2.text()
    subject = call.lineEdit_4.text()
    reply = call.lineEdit_5.text()
    body = call.textEdit.toPlainText()
    path = call.lineEdit_6.text()
    bodypath = call.lineEdit_17.text()```

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def process_file():
    filename, sel_filter  = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Select Text File", filter='Text files (*.txt)')
    call.lineEdit_6.setText(filename)```

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it puts
c:/users/com/downloads/file.txt

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instead of c://users/com/downloads/file.txt

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:40 PM

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The single forward slash works for me and it should be fine? What OS are you on?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:40 PM

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windows

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:41 PM

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So when it says throws the "no such file or directory" Error, what path is it trying to search for?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:41 PM

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the one which i selected

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c:/users/com/Downloads/mail.txt

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it displays in the box

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also,

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#-------------container and paths---------------------------
fd = driver.find_element_by_xpath
filename = os.getenv('APPDATA') + '\mailer_config'
Links, proxyList = [], []
path=""
proxypath = ""
bodypath = ""
#------------------

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:44 PM

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So what's the line/function that's trying to open the file?

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:44 PM

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Oh

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I found filename are two times

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def process_file():
    filename, sel_filter  = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Select Text File", filter='Text files (*.txt)')
    call.lineEdit_6.setText(filename)```

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:46 PM

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From the error you posted it seems like it's error out on a different line? Unless the full traceback is indicating otherwise

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:47 PM

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still error

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:50 PM

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In your def declare(): when you update the variable path=""
That's most likely updating the local variable path and not the global/non-local variable path that you actually want.

Which is why you're getting the error of can't find the file "".

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 8:54 PM

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but there is no local var path

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and now working, thanks after i added global path

static cove Jul 1, 2020, 8:59 PM

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There is, inside the function def declare(). That function doesn't necessarily have scope into variables outside of it.

digital rose Jul 1, 2020, 9:00 PM

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i see, thanks a lot

analog stump Jul 2, 2020, 12:45 PM

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Hello.
I am trying to add HTML like GUI to my python application without having to use javascript, etc.
Can someone please suggest some frameworks for the same?
(Thanks in advance)

opaque arch Jul 2, 2020, 5:34 PM

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Hello,
I am currently trying to make a basic music player using curses.
I don't have major problems, although I would like to implement a progress bar that update every second for obvious reasons, but I would like the program to continue listening to user inputs, which it can't with a while not stop: time.sleep(1) ... loop if I use stdscr.getch to get inputs.
What would be the best way to achieve that? Or what are some ideas I could use to get closer to a solution?

static cove Jul 2, 2020, 11:07 PM

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@opaque arch Well, if you're looking for two functions to run (~roughly) at the same time, you want to look into threading/concurrency. Python has several different implementations of concurrency.
For a general primer on concurrency in python: https://realpython.com/python-concurrency/

For more specifically looking at threads: https://realpython.com/intro-to-python-threading/

Do you already have a GUI framework that you're using for the progress bar?

opaque arch Jul 3, 2020, 8:23 AM

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As I said, I use curses as GUI (sorry for the late answer, I was sleeping). Thank you for your propositions, I will look into it!

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(in fact, I already thought that multithreading could be a solution, but I wanted to be sure there weren't a better way to do it)

digital rose Jul 3, 2020, 3:43 PM

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anyone know how I would represent the album listing in Qt?

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I've toyed with QListWidget and i'm not sure that's right for me

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I was thinking of if there's a way to make an album widget

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which is a VBox

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which has the album art etc.

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and then if there was some way of having that like

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display in a list in the way shown in the picture

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as well as being able to have that drop down menu thing when you click on one

white dragon Jul 3, 2020, 4:09 PM

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Hello! I'm looking for a Python plotting library which allows for multiple dropdowns/widgets to filter data? Tried plotly but it looks like unless I use the ipywidgets library, I'm stuck with only one dropdown. Looking for something that is aesthetically pleasing, interactive and embeddable. Any help would be appreciated, thank you

digital rose Jul 3, 2020, 10:21 PM

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@static cove

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I need help with compiling the pyhton script

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with pyinstaller

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which includes uic.loadUi('main.ui')

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and a pixmap image

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but is shows filenotfound error

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when i compile with --noconsole

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#help-dumpling

static cove Jul 3, 2020, 11:01 PM

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@digital rose Hi, I don't necessarily appreciate random pings when it's been well over a day since I helped. Also, I don't know pyinstaller, so I didn't respond.

digital rose Jul 3, 2020, 11:01 PM

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okay

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any other alternative?

static cove Jul 3, 2020, 11:03 PM

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I used py2exe and then cx_freeze but that was well over a year ago and I haven't touched it since.

versed sigil Jul 4, 2020, 3:15 AM

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what gui should i use to put a folium map and an animated matplotlib graph in a single window? or do i need to put each of these in separate windows?

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 8:31 AM

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here is a short dna code is there any other way i could have done this to shorten the code lenth

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def DNA_strand(dna):
    # code here
    dna_2 = ("")
    strand = ["T","A","C","G"]
    for i in dna:
        if i == "A":
            x = 0
        if i == "T":
            x = 1
        if i == "G":
            x = 2
        if i == "C":
            x = 3
        dna_2 += strand[x]
    return dna_2```

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:05 AM

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def DNA_complement(dna):
    return ''.join(map(lambda n: {'A':'T','C':'G','G':'C','T':'A'}[n],dna))

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:08 AM

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hmm thnx

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what should i do to find a count of a sentence

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:14 AM

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character count? print(len("this is a sentence")) # returns 18

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:15 AM

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no i wanted to find the number of times "x" is presented in "xoxxoxooxoxxoxooxo"

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:16 AM

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print("this is a sentence".count("e")) # 3

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:16 AM

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wait isnt it two

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oh nvm im stupid

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:16 AM

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ROFL

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:19 AM

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another question

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if theres a string"+"

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how do i convert it to an operator

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:22 AM

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import operator
ops = { "+": operator.add, "-": operator.sub } # etc.

print ops["+"](1,1) # prints 2

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1740726/turn-string-into-operator

Stack Overflow

Turn string into operator

How can I turn a string such as "+" into the operator plus?
Thanks!

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or without the import:

ops = { "+": lambda a,b: a + b, "-": lambda a,b: a - b }
print(ops["+"](1,1))

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:28 AM

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whats lambda

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:29 AM

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basically condensed syntax for inline functions

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:29 AM

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whats inline?

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:30 AM

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instead of calling a separate function for each of those operations in ops, and having to define each function on it's own line/block ... you can just write the lambda function in the same line

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they are great for quick operations like that, especially if you know you aren't going to need to re-use the code elsewhere

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:30 AM

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nvm i dont understand it im new to python

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 9:32 AM

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here's the same code without lambdas:

def add (a,b):
    return a + b
def subtract(a,b):
    return a - b
ops = { "+": add, "-": subtract }
print(ops["+"](1,1))

wide folio Jul 4, 2020, 9:47 AM

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oh now i understand

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how do i see if a float is integer or not?

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n % 1 != 0?

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 10:19 AM

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that'll work

terse isle Jul 4, 2020, 10:28 AM

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from tkinter import * root = Tk() root.title('Hello world!') root.geometry('400×300') root.mainloop()

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why isnt this working

modern acorn Jul 4, 2020, 10:32 AM

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your x isn't a normal x

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root.geometry("400x300")

terse isle Jul 4, 2020, 10:34 AM

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ah yes thx its working

static cove Jul 4, 2020, 2:50 PM

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@versed sigil Most GUI frameworks accommodate the MatPlotLib backend for incorporating graphs (which you can put multiple graphs on one window). Folium relies on leaflet.js, right? I'm not sure how many of the frameworks can handle html/js then.

PyQt/Pyside2 allows the use for matplotlib as well. Although how you incorporate an animated graph will change a little bit. I would be surprised if PyQt doesn't allow the incorporation of folium.
Looks like this might let you do it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58590199/how-to-show-folium-map-inside-a-pyqt5-gui

real ice Jul 4, 2020, 3:40 PM

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hey, is it possible to remove the blinking cursor from a Line Edit (in PyQt5) without making the Line Edit read only or something? It should still be editable, but the cursor shouldnt be visible

analog stump Jul 4, 2020, 4:59 PM

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Hello.
How do I display a pandas dataframe as a table in HTML using eel?

echo cypress Jul 4, 2020, 5:03 PM

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@analog stump https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.23.4/generated/pandas.DataFrame.to_html.html ?

analog stump Jul 4, 2020, 5:05 PM

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Sorry @echo cypress. I forgot to mention that I want to display it using eel.

echo cypress Jul 4, 2020, 5:05 PM

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Ah, gotcha. Sorry 😅

analog stump Jul 4, 2020, 5:05 PM

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No problem. My fault lol.
Any ideas?

real ice Jul 4, 2020, 6:00 PM

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is it possible to remove the blinking cursor from a Line Edit (in PyQt5) without making the Line Edit read only or something? It should still be editable, but the cursor shouldnt be visible
is there some way to keep it readOnly till the Line edit is clicked?
would that hide the blinking cursor

static cove Jul 4, 2020, 8:35 PM

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Could you pass in the color to check for each button and then the function could be?:

def check_color(color_to_check):
    if color_to_check in ("Blue", "Green", "Red", "Yellow"):
        update()
    else:
        destroy()

(You would need to change the callback to include a lambda)

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Also! .place() doesn't actually return anything. So your button variables don't actually reference the buttons.
You want to split up the set-up of your widgets and the placement of them onto different lines if you want to retain a way to access those widgets later. @digital rose

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Yes. That'll let your button variable hold a reference to the button object

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Also, you want to check if the button they press is equal to the current color that's in colour_text, right?

glad breach Jul 5, 2020, 5:21 AM

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im stuck with this error
ive gone through lots of websites but no help

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i was trying to make an apk of my kivy program using buildozer but i get this error
can someone pls help

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glad breach Jul 5, 2020, 5:41 AM

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hello?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:49 AM

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hi all! i'm using pyqt5 to make an app that has no main window. It's just menu option and dialogs windows. One of the dialogs is for user preferences. When the user hits ok, i want to enable or disable a menu item based on the status of a checkbox in the preferences dialog. How do I reference a specific menu item when it doesn't have a window as a parent?

grand aurora Jul 5, 2020, 6:21 AM

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I am learning tkinter now. Do i have to also learn PyQt? Is there anything that PyQt can do and tkinter can't?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 6:22 AM

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i believe they are two different options with strong supporters on both sides

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would i be correct in assuming tkinter is more common?

stiff vigil Jul 5, 2020, 11:27 AM

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Anyone knows how to put automatically a text in an entry to make a auto-register systeme using tkinter ?

golden mauve Jul 5, 2020, 11:30 AM

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what gui creator looks the most modern?

hollow narwhal Jul 5, 2020, 11:31 AM

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@stiff vigil are you using tkinter?

stiff vigil Jul 5, 2020, 11:31 AM

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yes

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@hollow narwhal

hollow narwhal Jul 5, 2020, 11:32 AM

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you could replace it. like this: ```e = Entry(master)
e.pack()

e.delete(0, END)
e.insert(0, "a default value")```

stiff vigil Jul 5, 2020, 11:32 AM

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using .grid() also works ?

hollow narwhal Jul 5, 2020, 11:33 AM

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should work

golden mauve Jul 5, 2020, 11:33 AM

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what do you guys think is the best looking gui creator (as in, what gui creator creates the best looking gui)

hollow narwhal Jul 5, 2020, 11:34 AM

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i dont know exactly, but you could try some of these: https://insights.dice.com/2017/08/07/7-top-python-gui-frameworks/

Dice Insights

The 7 Top Python GUI Frameworks for 2017

How to choose the best Python GUI for you? Here are the best 7 currently available.

round stag Jul 5, 2020, 11:34 AM

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It’s the creator, not the tools

rocky dragon Jul 5, 2020, 11:35 AM

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For creator do you mean s GUI framework or something to create guis with drag and drop like qt creator?

round stag Jul 5, 2020, 11:35 AM

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I mean the person themselves.

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Designing the GUI

rocky dragon Jul 5, 2020, 11:36 AM

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That was meant for Damen

round stag Jul 5, 2020, 11:36 AM

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Ah right

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 3:34 PM

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@grand aurora PyQt has a lot more functionality that tkinter doesn't. It's signals and slots method for events is very powerful and it has more widgets that you can generally subclass to do more with. That's just a general broad overview.

From what i've seen, most people start with tkinter but usually move onto a different framework if their project increases in complexity and they discover frameworks better suited to what they want to do.

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@golden mauve I think it depends how much time you're willing to invest in styling the GUI. Off the bat for an easy GUI creator, I'd probably hedge my bets on Kivy or PyQt. But given enough effort you can make tkinter look modern.

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 3:49 PM

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hi all, i'm using PyQt and hitting a roadblock regarding menus. I create my application menu when the app starts. How can I later reference a specific menu item to disable/enable it from elsewhere in the app? I noticed I can't iterate through a QMenu. How else might I find a specific menuitem?

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 4:31 PM

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@dapper plume How are you adding items to the menu?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 4:47 PM

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when the app open i generate the menu

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    app = MyApp([])
    menu = app.menu```

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then i add things like

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    menu_prefs = QtWidgets.QAction("Preferences...")
    menu_prefs.triggered.connect(show_config_settings)
    menu.addAction(menu_prefs)
    menu.addSeparator()```

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depending on preferences set by opening the preference dialog with the "Preferences..." QAction, i want to enable or disable other menu actions

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 4:54 PM

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Does: other_menu_item.setEnabled(False) not work? Do the menu items exist in a different menu?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:03 PM

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so like in my example aboe, would i just do this? app.menu.menu_prefs.setEnabled(False)

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:04 PM

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You can give it a shot. I'm unsure how your code is set up

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:06 PM

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trying it now

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AttributeError: 'QMenu' object has no attribute 'menu_prefs'

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:10 PM

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What does using menuAction() get you;

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?

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So,
menu_pref.menuAction()

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:11 PM

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lets see!

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hah

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not so far

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a couple attempts:

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AttributeError: 'QMenu' object has no attribute 'menu_prefs'```

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NameError: name 'menu_prefs' is not defined```

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:20 PM

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Oh, whoops. It should've been menu.menuAction() that might have returned menu_prefs. I'm not sure how this will behave with multiple actions though. Maybe it returns an enumerator?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:20 PM

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oh! haha got it

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let me do a little test

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haha this didn't work: print(str(app.menu.menuAction()))

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Segmentation fault: 11```

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:30 PM

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Hmm, but it did return a QAction object. I wonder if it was the string coercion it didn't like

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:32 PM

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tried this: print(app.menu.menuAction().objectName)

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i got: <built-in method objectName of QAction object at 0x7fcd2781eee0> Segmentation fault: 11

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:34 PM

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Well, if it returns the QAction object, you should be able to get its text with .text()
What does:
print(app.menu.menuAction().text()) get you?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:36 PM

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Segmentation fault: 11```

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whats with the segmentation fault?

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oh...it didn't show the blank line before the fault

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it looked like print gave me a blank line

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:37 PM

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It could be because it's losing the object reference...

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:37 PM

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question....with a qobject...would i want to try findchildren?

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I tried this: ```print(app.menu.menuAction().findChildren(QtWidgets.QMenu))

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Segmentation fault: 11```

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:41 PM

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Does the menu_pref have any children?
Is that the last line of code that runs before the seg fault?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:41 PM

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i tried: python menu = app.menu.menuAction().findChild(QtWidgets.QMenu, 'menu_prefs') print(menu.objectName)

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i got: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'objectName' Abort trap: 6

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:43 PM

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You're overwriting your menu?
app.menu.menuAction() should technically be returning the menu_pref object.

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 5:43 PM

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oh!

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not trying to haha, i got that wrong

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        print(my_menu)```

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Segmentation fault: 11```

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 5:50 PM

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Would you be able to post more of your code? I'd like to play with it and figure out what's happening

digital rose Jul 5, 2020, 6:07 PM

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Hello everyone, i'm building an app using wxPython but i'm having a stupid problem which is bothering me.


   def setup_ui(self) -> (HexGrid, RichTextCtrl):

        splitter = wx.SplitterWindow(self, -1)

        editor_hex_grid = wx.Panel(splitter, -1)
        editor_data_view = wx.Panel(splitter, -1)

        bs_hex_grid = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        bs_data_view = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)

        hex_grid = HexGrid(parent=editor_hex_grid, id=wx.ID_ANY, name="HexView")
        data_view = RichTextCtrl(parent=editor_data_view, id=wx.ID_ANY, name="DataView")

        bs_hex_grid.Add(hex_grid, wx.ID_ANY, wx.EXPAND)
        bs_data_view.Add(data_view, wx.ID_ANY, wx.EXPAND)

        editor_hex_grid.SetSizer(bs_hex_grid)
        editor_data_view.SetSizer(bs_data_view)

        splitter.SplitHorizontally(editor_hex_grid, editor_data_view)

        return hex_grid, data_view

This is the code i use to create the ui

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Problem is: splitter line is too high compared to the hex_grid

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I'll post a pic to explain it better

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What i get: blue is the RichTextCtrl, red is the HexGrid

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What i want

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Just to make it even clearer: Everything is already there, what is happening is that splitter put the RichTextControl way too high, covering all the space of hex_grid.
Note: HexGrid inherith wx.Grid

eager cape Jul 5, 2020, 6:40 PM

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Any recommendation on where to start with UI on python?

urban stag Jul 5, 2020, 6:43 PM

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tkinter

eager cape Jul 5, 2020, 6:46 PM

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thanks

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 7:42 PM

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@digital rose I'm not that familiar with splitter windows, but can you set the sash position to be lower down with .SetSashPosition()? You can probably also mess with the Sash Gravity.

digital rose Jul 5, 2020, 7:43 PM

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@digital rose I'm not that familiar with splitter windows, but can you set the sash position to be lower down with .SetSashPosition()? You can probably also mess with the Sash Gravity.
@static cove Okay, i'll check it. Thanks, i'll post any update if i find out something

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@static cove But, in your opinion, how does my code look like? I mean, do you see something wrong with it? Can i remove something from it?

dapper plume Jul 5, 2020, 7:44 PM

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Hi @static cove sorry for the ghosting. had to build a bassinet! haha Thanks for the help so far! I'm happy to share more

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pm ok?

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 7:56 PM

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@digital rose I think it's fine? I rarely use wxPython though and have only dealt with it when helping an intern troubleshoot a few things, so I'm by no means an expert or a even regular user of that framework.

digital rose Jul 5, 2020, 7:56 PM

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I wonder what i have to use in order to create complex ui application with Python

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What is the standard in the community?

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 7:58 PM

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@dapper plume You're welcome to use https://paste.pydis.com/ to share the code here in case anyone else can help. But if you'd rather not PM is also fine

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White_Lynx, it honestly depends! I don't think there's a defacto standard. I know PyQt/Pyside2 is popular because of the extensive use with both the C++ and Python community.

wxPython is still definitely used and you can do complex things with it, I just haven't used it. I'm currently using PyQt and enjoying it a lot. People have done seem really cool things with Kivy too.

digital rose Jul 5, 2020, 8:03 PM

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@static cove splitter.SetSashGravity(0.75) worked for me. But i can't believe the SashPosition is set using this method... It's just not intuitive

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Thanks for your awesome tip

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White_Lynx, it honestly depends! I don't think there's a defacto standard. I know PyQt/Pyside2 is popular because of the extensive use with bot the C++ and Python community.

wxPython is still definitely used and you can do complex things with it, I just haven't used it. I'm currently using PyQt and enjoying it a lot. People have done seem really cool things with Kivy too.
@static cove I'll check them

static cove Jul 5, 2020, 8:07 PM

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@digital rose So I believe the setSashGravity controls how each window will grow/take-up space when the window is resized. Here are the docs I'm referencing https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.SplitterWindow.html#wx.SplitterWindow.SetSashGravity
So a gravity of 0.0 (which is the default setting because ¯_(ツ)_/¯) will let only the right/bottom grow. 0.5 will let windows grow by equal size. 1.0 will only let the left/top grow.

digital rose Jul 5, 2020, 8:09 PM

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@static cove ¯_(ツ)_/¯ This made me laugh so hard

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Thanks, have a good evening

glad breach Jul 6, 2020, 1:33 AM

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anyone familiar with kivy and buildozer here?

urban stag Jul 6, 2020, 1:33 AM

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glad breach Jul 6, 2020, 1:35 AM

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well i need some help with setting them up
i have a folder and i create a virtualenv inside that and installed buildozer with wsl ubuntu and now someone told me to install kivy via cmd in another venv
so will there be any problem if i do that?

rough yarrow Jul 6, 2020, 3:45 AM

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With Tkinter, How can I close/end a root without destroying it, and then how to make it appear again

opaque arch Jul 6, 2020, 8:30 AM

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You can iconify it (window.iconify()) or make it very small. Although, I don't remember any way to close it without destroying it, but I could be wrong

glad breach Jul 6, 2020, 1:45 PM

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https://discord.gg/djPtTRJ is there any other kivy server other than this?

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anyone who's familiar with kivy who doesnt mind being dm-ed for help?

alpine stag Jul 6, 2020, 8:44 PM

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Hey there

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I want to start a GUI framework. Which on is the best?

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I like Kivy because of android and iOS but I’m looking for the best. Any suggestion?

static cove Jul 6, 2020, 9:17 PM

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@alpine stag I don't think there's an absolute best. It just depends on what you're trying to do and which features you want/must have.

alpine stag Jul 6, 2020, 9:19 PM

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@static cove Ok I mean which one has more abilities? And which can I have a modern app with?

static cove Jul 6, 2020, 11:35 PM

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@alpine stag Depends what you want. If you want something that users can interact with via touch Kivy is definitely the way to go. If you want real-time plotting of data PyQt is good for that, I haven't used wxPython enough to say it's particular niche but it has nice widgets I haven't seen other frameworks implement. You can make a modern app with any of those.

There are other frameworks too, but I don't any experience with them (i.e. libavg)

tropic epoch Jul 7, 2020, 3:59 AM

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Any idea of a nice free course on kivy?

alpine stag Jul 7, 2020, 5:26 AM

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Ok thanks

blazing heath Jul 7, 2020, 9:46 AM

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I just started with my first gui project using Tkinter.
And i wonder how can i remove the Lable that was createt after i clicked the button once when i press the button again.
Cause now when i use the "Berechnen"(Calculate) Button grid just overrides the exsisting Lable and it looks like this:

📎 unknown.png

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        lbl = Label(self, text="Berechnet die Maximale Wärmeanforderung eines Raumes.")
        lbl.grid(sticky=W)
        c = StringVar(self)
        drop = OptionMenu(self, c, list[0], *list)
        drop.grid(row=1, column=2, sticky=E)
        e1 = Entry(self)
        e1.insert(1, "Gib die Quadratmeter des Raumes an.")
        # Label(self, text="Gebe hie die Quadratmeter des Raumes an:").grid(row=1, column=0, sticky=W)
        e1.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky=N + S + E + W)
        Label(self, text="㎡").grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W)
        Button(self, text="Berechnen", command=lambda: berechnen(self=self, m2=e1.get(), bj=c.get())).grid(row=3,
                                                                                                           column=2,
                                                                                                           sticky=N + E)

        Button(self, text="Verlassen", command=close).grid(row=4, column=2, sticky=E)

        def berechnen(self, m2, bj):
            try:
                m2 = int(m2)
                try:
                    bj = dic[bj]
                except KeyError:
                    on_error(error=KeyError, error_mes="Bitte wähle ein Baujahr aus")
                    return
                Label(self, text=f"Die maximale Heizleistung beträgt {m2 * bj} Watt").grid(row=3, column=0, sticky=N)
            except (TypeError, ValueError):
                on_error(error=ValueError, error_mes="Bitte gebe nur zahlen im ㎡ Feld an")

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this is my code

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i also tried to use a StringVar but id didnt worked for me

tribal path Jul 7, 2020, 9:48 AM

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How did the StringVar way look.

blazing heath Jul 7, 2020, 9:48 AM

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sec

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ups

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sry

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 e1.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky=N + S + E + W)
        Label(self, text="㎡").grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W)
        String = StringVar(self)
        String.set("")
        Label(self, textvariable=String).grid(row=3, column=0, sticky=N)
        Button(self, text="Berechnen", command=lambda: berechnen(self=self, m2=e1.get(), bj=c.get())).grid(row=3,
                                                                                                           column=2,
                                                                                                           sticky=N + E)

        Button(self, text="Verlassen", command=close).grid(row=4, column=2, sticky=E)

        def berechnen(self, m2, bj):
            try:
                m2 = int(m2)
                try:
                    bj = dic[bj]
                except KeyError:
                    on_error(error=KeyError, error_mes="Bitte wähle ein Baujahr aus")
                    return
                String.set(f"Die maximale Heizleistung beträgt {m2 * bj} Watt")
            except (TypeError, ValueError):
                on_error(error=ValueError, error_mes="Bitte gebe nur zahlen im ㎡ Feld an")

tribal path Jul 7, 2020, 9:53 AM

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And you were getting a error back from that?

blazing heath Jul 7, 2020, 9:53 AM

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No
it just shows nothing

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no error nothing

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But is the way how i want to insert the String variable right ?

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maybe i screwd up something else packing or Grid Geometry

tribal path Jul 7, 2020, 9:58 AM

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It looks fine, just wasn't sure if you'd need to be using self.String here, for it to be accessible in the other method. But if it isn't reporting an Error...

blazing heath Jul 7, 2020, 10:02 AM

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hm :/
ty for trying to help me.
Ill overview my code again maybe i screwd up something else that causes this issue.
Ty :D
Have a great day :)

tribal path Jul 7, 2020, 10:08 AM

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Oh I see there it's not actually a method right, you have that as a nested function, you could always assign the Label & edit it, but StringVar is the what you should be using, shouldn't need the self in StringVar() btw, but don't think it's the issue here

blazing heath Jul 7, 2020, 10:17 AM

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Ah okay :D

silk cipher Jul 7, 2020, 8:27 PM

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So I'm getting a little bored with just doing stuff that exports to console. I'm doing codewars and almost done the codecademy course, and was wondering what are some good modules for UI or other visual stuff. Was hoping to maybe make some basic games, or apps that look like apps and not just CLI stuff

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I'm guessing the ones mentioned in the description of this channel are the most popular?

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:29 PM

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@silk cipher Try looking at Tkinter and QT! They're both very different frameworks that are good for getting into UI stuff

silk cipher Jul 7, 2020, 8:29 PM

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Thanks, will do!

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:30 PM

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to be honest, good UI work is extremely difficult; even Discord uses HTML+CSS

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so try looking at front-end web stuff, it's not as fast but good for quick prototypes!

silk cipher Jul 7, 2020, 8:30 PM

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Yeah I know about the Electron jazz

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My main focus is on JS, I know there's plenty of tools there, but I was just curious what Python has

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:32 PM

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I only have personal experience with Tkinter so I might be a bit biased

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it's... good but a bit fiddly

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 8:32 PM

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Tkinter is nice because it's built in with the python standard library, but you can very quickly hit some limits with it. The other 3 frameworks I tend to recommend are: PyQt/PySide2, Kivy, and wxPython. They have much more to them.

Kivy is fun because of it's touch inputs/recognition and it can make apps for android/iOS.

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:32 PM

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I couldn't tell you how it compares to QT personally

silk cipher Jul 7, 2020, 8:33 PM

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So is most of python used for non UI purposes?

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Or do apps made in python look like ass

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:34 PM

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All UI work is hard @silk cipher ;)

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 8:34 PM

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You can definitely make apps look nice, it just takes some work styling it. Same as with html/css, you need to set a stylesheet. I've found styling for making it look modern is much easier in the bigger frameworks than tkinter.

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:34 PM

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If you want perfect style you'll have to be OS-specific as well, it's a hard thing to do

silk cipher Jul 7, 2020, 8:35 PM

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Gotcha

tribal path Jul 7, 2020, 8:38 PM

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Kivy afaik is the only real/least wrappery ui lib (well bare bones it's currently a sdl2 wrapper) the others are wrappers for uis in other langs c++ (ie QT), TCL (tkinter) etc.

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:39 PM

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absolutely - wrappers might mean you're more feature-complete but they are sometimes finnicky to work with

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so even without using it myself I can say that is a major plus especially if you're starting out

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 8:46 PM

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Hello! I'm not much of a programmer but I've been trying to figure out a solution to doing something like this:

📎 unknown.png

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having a sort of item based list where each includes a sub-dropdown selection and a button to remove that indexed item

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:46 PM

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Hmm, that's interesting

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Would need some bespoke work, but it might also in turn make for a weird UX

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what's it for, if I may ask for context?

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 8:48 PM

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It's a personal project, supposed to interact with other objects represented by an item in the list

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when you select a different thing in the dropdown, it would ideally grab the item, and dropdown selection and pass to another function

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:49 PM

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Hmm

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You might be able to do this with a bespoke widget

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how large are your lists?

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the big list and the small lists, that is?

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 8:49 PM

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Not very big

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I wouldn't imagine them larger than like 6 items?

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if that's whatcha mean

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:50 PM

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Hm. If the large list is fairly small you might get away with 6 dropdowns that are auto-generated

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it's not what you asked for but it would save some delving into widget design

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you can cook up your own custom "widget" which is a pane with a dropdown and buttons etc and then just make 6 on the fly

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the issue would be making them drop-downable, it depends on your framework I think

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 8:51 PM

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@unique blaze This is using PyQt or a different framework?

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 8:51 PM

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Yeah

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😄

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Pyqt

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 8:53 PM

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Just to make sure I undestand, a user will be able to (search? sort? select through?) an item list. Each item in that list is associated with another set/list of items which will appear in the dropdown. The button will remove the dropdown item from the second set/list of items?

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 8:56 PM

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I guess, if you were to hit "X" it would remove the whole item instance, and all the dropdown entries (the idea would be being able to add more to each item's dropdown as well)

Vs if you were to hit the "Delete" it would remove just the currently chosen dropdown entry on the the item you have selected

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@leaden monolith Thank you!!!

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 8:57 PM

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It might help to have list management in a separate section

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both for programming clarity and user clarity

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mixing the scope might be confuzzling

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 9:00 PM

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So in terms of data structure, you want a collection of items and each item to have a list of associated items. Sounds like a good use case for a dictionary with the values being the list of what's in the dropdown.

You can use a QLineEdit or something else (I'm still a bit fuzzy on how users select different items) for the main item. When the users select an item, you can use that signal to trigger a QComboBox to update with that item's associate values (the secondary list).
Then the "X" button can trigger a removeItem() function or something similar that'll remove it from the dictionary and then select the next/previous item in the list (which would then in turn update the dropbox etc, etc).

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 9:02 PM

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Wow thank you so much!!!

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@leaden monolith @static cove

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I didn't think to use a dict, great idea

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 9:03 PM

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Ha, yeah. I tend to forget about dicts, but the current code jam qualifier has reminded me how useful they are.

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 9:04 PM

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I'm going to have to brush back up

leaden monolith Jul 7, 2020, 9:04 PM

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Hashing is the nectar of the gods

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lists are useful for efficiency but key-value pairs are far too useful for their own good

unique blaze Jul 7, 2020, 9:44 PM

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So how's the best way to compile the .ui file into code nowadays? python C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PySide\scripts\uic.py -o "userpath" -x still the typical way of doin it?

static cove Jul 7, 2020, 9:51 PM

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(I highly recommend upgrading to Python3 btw)
I followed this to load Qt Designer files: https://www.learnpyqt.com/courses/qt-creator/first-steps-qt-creator/
But I don't use Qt Designer tool a lot (read: at all) since I have to dynamically generate a significant portion of my layouts.

hot wasp Jul 8, 2020, 10:01 AM

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📎 reqw.PNG

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📎 resq.PNG

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📎 qw.PNG

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when i click the login button...its not opening the image (logo.png)
but the pic in the window screen (blue.png) is only showing up
how to get that pic to show after i click login?

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im getting a blank screen like this after clicking the login button

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can i get some help?

static cove Jul 8, 2020, 12:55 PM

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@hot wasp You're trying to call two Tk() instances, which you generally shouldn't do with tkinter. If you're trying to call two screens, you can have two tkinter Frame objects that are then shown/hidden based on what you need. You could also Toplevel() if you want a window that's similar to the original base window.

Each Tk() call is creating an instance of the Tcl interpreter. (Tkinter is a wrapper for the Tcl interpreter/framework). The two instances cannot interact with each other and can cause problems when code gets more complex.

Also, to double check, that second image exists, right?

digital rose Jul 8, 2020, 3:50 PM

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Hey, im currently creating my first program in tkinter. It views a table from a file and allows to edit it. Adjusting the row/column size creates my buttons at new positions, but how can i clear the old ones from my grid?
Or even better: How can i clear everything within my containing frame?

static cove Jul 8, 2020, 3:53 PM

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@digital rose I believe you can use forget_grid() or grid_forget() to remove the widgets from view. Note it won't destroy them, so you can re-use them.

digital rose Jul 8, 2020, 3:56 PM

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Is there an easy way to get all the items in my Frame as a list to forget them at once?

static cove Jul 8, 2020, 4:09 PM

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Sorry, had to double check docs. You could use winfo_children() on the Frame it looks like.
What I'm referencing: http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/widget.htm#Tkinter.Widget.winfo_children-method
If you have widgets in widgets, then you'll have to check each child for further widgets.

wintry crescent Jul 8, 2020, 8:43 PM

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anyone knows how to make from a tkinter file a application??

digital rose Jul 9, 2020, 1:05 AM

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tkinter is wonderful python ui application framework

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there are lots of various python ui application framework.

static cove Jul 9, 2020, 1:55 AM

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@wintry crescent Do you mean convert a python file using the tkinter framework into an executable?

hot wasp Jul 9, 2020, 3:20 AM

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yes @static cove the 2nd image exists.

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@static cove so i should just change one of it to Toplevel()

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and also screen.mainloop() right?

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i did that and it worked

wintry crescent Jul 9, 2020, 9:24 AM

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@static cove yess

oblique umbra Jul 9, 2020, 6:01 PM

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i have a basic gui built with tkinter and i want to access it in games like csgo, like how you would access the discord overlay. im using windows. more info- the gui has a mp3 player speech to text ability to open apps search(it will give you info in the gui) has weather and a clock

Thanks in advanced 🙂

tall temple Jul 9, 2020, 7:46 PM

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I need help with PyGObject. I posted an issue on the GitHub since I can't find any solutions online. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/-/issues/413

GitLab

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1 (#413) · Issues · GNO...

When I try to install the latest version of PyGObject through PyCharm or pip I get an error saying this: ``` Collecting PyGObject Using cached PyGObject-3.36.1.tar.gz (716 kB) Installing build...

digital rose Jul 10, 2020, 3:59 AM

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Is it possible to reduce this if stacking somehow?

    for i, row in enumerate(tabletmp):
        for j, x in enumerate(row):
            if i%2 == 0 and j%2 == 0:
                table[i][j] = Entry(tableFrame, width=gridWidth, bg=bg[0])
            elif i%2 == 0:
                table[i][j] = Entry(tableFrame, width=gridWidth, bg=bg[1])
            elif j%2 == 0:
                table[i][j] = Entry(tableFrame, width=gridWidth, bg=bg[2])
            else:
                table[i][j] = Entry(tableFrame, width=gridWidth, bg=bg[3])```

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i only want the bg to change depending on the position

obtuse thistle Jul 10, 2020, 5:21 AM

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    for i, row in enumerate(tabletmp):
        for j, x in enumerate(row):
            table[i][j] = Entry(tableFrame, width=gridWidth, bg=bg[(i % 2 * 2 + j % 2)])

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@digital rose

compact harbor Jul 10, 2020, 12:14 PM

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does kivy supports this feature

📎 Screenshot_20200710-131414_One_UI_Home.jpg

stuck elm Jul 10, 2020, 8:22 PM

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i made a custom button in tkinter but this glitch on the top left happens

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ivory ravine Jul 11, 2020, 10:35 AM

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hey, what's the easiest interface lib in python?

twin steeple Jul 11, 2020, 12:21 PM

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@ivory ravine PySimpleGUI seems easy

ivory ravine Jul 11, 2020, 4:23 PM

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okay thanks will try

ripe crater Jul 11, 2020, 5:07 PM

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hi guys im developing an online shopping app for my startup using pyqt5 designer someone pls help me with me developing the app

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i have some problems related to the app

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i need help on designing the home page as the layout options are confusing me and i am new to this designer pls ping me if you are willing to help

static cove Jul 12, 2020, 1:17 AM

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@compact harbor What feature are you specifically referring to?

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@stuck elm Can you share your code for that button?

stuck elm Jul 12, 2020, 1:19 AM

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i fixed it

static cove Jul 12, 2020, 1:19 AM

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Glad to hear~

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@ripe crater What aspects of the pyqt layout are you unsure of?

ripe crater Jul 12, 2020, 11:50 AM

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@static cove there are quite a few to name some of them
1.i dont know all the options present in pyqt
2. i dont know whats the best options to use to design my app to make it look professional

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pls hel me out if possible

ivory siren Jul 12, 2020, 12:51 PM

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If someone can help me make a GUI for a tool plz dm me. I've little to no experience in GUIs

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It's a simple tool

static cove Jul 12, 2020, 8:00 PM

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@ripe crater Well, usually you'd use a combination of the layout options to get what you'd like. To make it look professional would probably be more reliant on the styling and the user-flow of the program than anything else. PyQt does give you the option of applying custom stylesheets, but it'll still take work to get the styling correct.

I mainly use QGridLayout, but that's more because of the types of data/things I'm displaying. Here's a primer on the different layouts pyqt offers. https://www.learnpyqt.com/courses/start/layouts/. It doesn't cover QFormLayout, though.

PyQt also has Qt Designer, if you want something more drag-n-drop.

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@ivory siren There's a few options for GUIs. If you want something part of the python standard library you can try tkinter. I can probably offer a better recommendation if I know what your tool does

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@wintry crescent Sorry, totally missed this ping. You can check out PyInstaller for creating executables from python files

wintry crescent Jul 12, 2020, 8:17 PM

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@static cove I've done it but I had a problem

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I don't know how to add modules as requests

static cove Jul 12, 2020, 8:21 PM

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Hmmm... I don't quite have time now to dive into PyInstaller stuff. You could ask in the help channels, I think a few people on this server have dealt with PyInstaller and including modules that it doesn't detect automatically

wintry crescent Jul 12, 2020, 8:21 PM

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@static cove sorry I meant py2app

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Bcs I'm on macos

static cove Jul 12, 2020, 8:23 PM

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PyInstaller should work for Mac OS X. But I'm not familiar with py2app, sorry =/. I haven't used a mac in years.

wintry crescent Jul 12, 2020, 8:30 PM

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It's okay, Ty btw <3@static cove

fading grotto Jul 13, 2020, 2:50 AM

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The main advantage of wxPython is the licensing; it is much more liberal than the PyQT that you must pay for if you plan to distribute - read it carefully - there are several levels / options of licensing

ripe crater Jul 13, 2020, 3:30 AM

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@static cove thnks

digital rose Jul 13, 2020, 6:57 AM

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whats a good projects for a beginner making a ui?

kind spear Jul 13, 2020, 4:36 PM

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whats a good projects for a beginner making a ui?
@digital rose tkinter has been easy for me

steep cliff Jul 13, 2020, 7:29 PM

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is there a way to get label's text in pyqt5?

static cove Jul 13, 2020, 7:31 PM

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.text() should return the label's text

steep cliff Jul 13, 2020, 7:33 PM

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<built-in method text of QLabel object at 0x0000022FA29438B8> it returns this for me

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print(self.label_2.text)

static cove Jul 13, 2020, 7:33 PM

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it should be: print(self.label_2.text())
.text() is a method/function, not a property

steep cliff Jul 13, 2020, 7:34 PM

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oh ok

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tnx

silver maple Jul 13, 2020, 9:37 PM

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class GameBoard():
    def __init__(self):
        self.board = [[None for _ in range(8)] for _ in range(8)]
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.frame = tk.Frame(background="black")
        self.frame.grid_propagate(False)
        self.frame.place(anchor="center", relx=0.5, rely=0.5)
        self.root.bind("<Configure>", self.configure)

        # for i in range(8):
        #     self.frame.rowconfigure(i, weight=1)
        #     self.frame.columnconfigure(i, weight=1)
        #     for j in range(8):
        #         self.board[j][i] = tk.Frame(self.frame, bg="green")
        #         self.board[j][i].grid(row=i, column=j, sticky=tk.N+tk.E+tk.S+tk.W)
           
        self.root.mainloop()

    def configure(self, event):
        if event.width >= event.height:
            self.frame.configure(width=event.height)
            self.frame.configure(height=event.height)
        else:
            self.frame.configure(width=event.width)
            self.frame.configure(height=event.width)

a = GameBoard()

This code works to make a resizing square frame in the window, but I am trying to create an 8x8 grid in that square frame, and when I uncomment that code, I just get an empty window that flashes with the black background of the resizing frame with two green squares whenever I move the window.

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class GameBoard():
    def __init__(self):
        self.board = [[None for _ in range(8)] for _ in range(8)]
        self.root = tk.Tk()
        self.frame = tk.Frame(background="black")
        self.frame.grid_propagate(False)
        self.frame.place(anchor="center", relx=0.5, rely=0.5)
        self.root.bind("<Configure>", self.configure)

        for i in range(8):
            #self.frame.rowconfigure(i, weight=1)
            #self.frame.columnconfigure(i, weight=1)
            for j in range(8):
                self.board[j][i] = tk.Frame(self.frame, bg="green", width=20, height=20)
                self.board[j][i].grid(row=i, column=j, sticky=tk.N+tk.E+tk.S+tk.W)
           
        self.root.mainloop()

    def configure(self, event):
        if event.width >= event.height:
            self.frame.configure(width=event.height)
            self.frame.configure(height=event.height)
        else:
            self.frame.configure(width=event.width)
            self.frame.configure(height=event.width)

a = GameBoard()

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📎 unknown.png

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With this code, when I start the program, the window doesn't seem to work properly, but moving it, or resizing it fixes it.

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The grid seems to resize correctly if I make the base frame resize to fit the window completely.

versed sigil Jul 13, 2020, 11:55 PM

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can i put guis in a jupyter dashboard?

last vortex Jul 14, 2020, 2:18 AM

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What are the most popular GUI frameworks at this time Kivy? PyQT5? and what about Game Frameworks?

blazing narwhal Jul 14, 2020, 2:45 AM

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@last vortex
Pygame is for developing 2d games and GUI .
Pyqt5 is awesome but you have to buy liceny for it to use it commercially.
Tkinter is also a good library it is built in and no need to install.
Kivy is for developing android using python...

static cove Jul 14, 2020, 2:52 AM

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wxPython is a good alternative for PyQt if licensing is a sticking point. Haven't used it much, but it has similar features.
Kivy can develop desktop apps as well as apps for android and ios. It has really cool features, especially for mobile w/touch inputs.

barren cedar Jul 14, 2020, 3:10 AM

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Okay

sudden coral Jul 14, 2020, 3:37 AM

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If you want qt without licensing issues use pyside2

last vortex Jul 14, 2020, 4:31 PM

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Thanks for the answers guys

still drum Jul 15, 2020, 12:56 AM

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Hey I got a quick question that may be kinda dumb but I'm not really sure if it's possible. Can you use an async function with tkinter.button?

urban stag Jul 15, 2020, 1:07 AM

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not easily

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you could run the async code in a different thread

still drum Jul 15, 2020, 1:18 AM

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cool i'll try that, are there any other tools I can use to make a gui that can use async functions?

tribal path Jul 15, 2020, 1:22 AM

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Kivy v2.0.x can run an async app

still drum Jul 15, 2020, 2:02 AM

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nice thanks, just started reading about it

graceful lichen Jul 15, 2020, 6:01 AM

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Is it possible to make a program end prematurely based on input?

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Ie the input question could be: how old are you? And if the input is less than 30 make the program end rather than continue to the rest of the program?

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Hope this is the right channel for this

zinc lagoon Jul 15, 2020, 6:05 AM

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There's exit(), which may be what you're looking for

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it tells python to exit the current program with a given status code

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exit(0) is usually used for "all complete, everything was successful", whereas various other numbers usually indicate different errors

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A generic exit(1) is good for if something has gone horribly, horribly wrong and throwing an exception isn't appropriate (although it usually is).

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But in your case it might be the easy solution

graceful lichen Jul 15, 2020, 6:20 AM

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Ok, so would I use 0 or 1?

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Nvm, figured it out

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Thank you very very much kind stranger

rocky dragon Jul 15, 2020, 10:52 AM

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The convention is 0 - good non zero - bad exit. Then its up to you to define what the bad ones mean.
@zinc lagoon just FYI, exit and quit should not be used in normal scripts as they are site dependent builtins. sys.exit or rasie SystemExit can be used in their place and act the same on the exiting part of the functionality

rapid zinc Jul 15, 2020, 2:45 PM

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Hello there my kali linux OS takes around 3 minutes to boot
I tried to look out for sources change values of swappiness/disabling network.manager.service but still no result

I have a laptop with dualboot windows/kali
400gb ext4 for kali
5gb swap space
And the rest portion is for windows
12gb ram and corei7(7thgen)

I tried systemd-analyze and systemd-analyze blame

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'''graphical.target @2min 14.980s
└─multi-user.target @2min 14.980s
└─plymouth-quit-wait.service @1min 38.967s +36.013s
└─systemd-user-sessions.service @1min 38.917s +43ms
└─network.target @1min 38.912s
└─wpa_supplicant.service @1min 42.708s +556ms
└─dbus.service @1min 34.097s
└─basic.target @1min 34.069s
└─sockets.target @1min 34.069s
└─pcscd.socket @1min 34.068s
└─sysinit.target @1min 34.053s
└─sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount @1min 40.612s +27ms
└─systemd-modules-load.service @4.009s +168ms
└─systemd-journald.socket @3.830s
└─system.slice @2.827s
└─-.slice @2.827s
'''

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36.013s plymouth-quit-wait.service
8.403s vmware-USBArbitrator.service
7.032s dev-sda7.device
5.518s vmware.service
5.392s accounts-daemon.service
5.197s polkit.service
4.810s NetworkManager.service
4.749s systemd-logind.service
3.889s udisks2.service
3.191s smartmontools.service
2.953s systemd-journal-flush.service
2.238s systemd-udevd.service
2.007s ModemManager.service
1.904s gdm.service
1.662s rsyslog.service
1.537s networking.service
1.377s stunnel4.service

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Startup finished in 13.641s (firmware) + 5.750s (loader) + 39.435s (kernel) + 2min 15.371s (userspace) = 3min 14.199s

static cove Jul 15, 2020, 4:12 PM

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@rapid zinc That doesn't really have much to do with python user interfaces, so I don't think anyone in this channel would be knowledgeable and able to help you.

junior quiver Jul 15, 2020, 6:18 PM

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would python be a good way to go for making a POS system or should i go with something else?

rapid zinc Jul 15, 2020, 8:17 PM

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@static coveokay thx for the response

maiden dragon Jul 16, 2020, 4:18 AM

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i notice that when i try to dynamically update static text in wxpython the whole thing flashes everytime it is passed a new string

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is there any way to make dynamically updating text without this occuring

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https://gyazo.com/c0198ea82d729a669084058354a2fea5

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as you can see from this GIF they update in a rather visually unappealing way (they also update one at a time not all together if you have any insight on how to fix that it would be AMAZING but i imagine that is more complex)

north quail Jul 16, 2020, 7:36 AM

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@maiden dragon https://stackoverflow.com/a/21321005

The StaticText widget does not support that behavior. You can probably do that with a read-only wx.TextCtrl that has the wx.TE_RICH or wx.TE_RICH2 flag enabled. Otherwise you might just want to draw the text using wx.GCDC or wx.PaintDC. That would be even more flexible.