user-interfaces

[tawdry mulch]

If i were to say button(width=30) this 30 is with respect to my screen, but what about a smaller display?

[modern marsh]

which ig you can use to scale individual widgets

[modern marsh]

ig it will remain 30

that is ,scaled too much

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmmmm I see

[modern marsh]

idrk how the width=30 thing works in tkinter

cuz i dont think 30 is number of pixels

[tawdry mulch]

I guess my understanding of is wrong somewhere

[tawdry mulch]

I think 30 refers to pixels by default, in a button Idk, but usually it would.

[modern marsh]

hmm

[tawdry mulch]

It is based on pts

For labels. I think the same works for buttons too.

[modern marsh]

oh alright

[tawdry mulch]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66890430/what-is-the-x-y-for-a-tkinter-perfect-square

[modern marsh]

yeah i dont use tkinter anymore

switched to Qt

[tawdry mulch]

Okays, thanks for the help 😄

[modern marsh]

np :D

[modern marsh]

oooo

https://pypi.org/project/pyqtdeploy/

by RiverBank Computing

i suppose you can make mobile apps with pyqt after all

https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_for_Android_guide

for pyside

[leaden tiger]

hello, can somebody explain me an error message?

[brittle bolt]

Post it

[leaden tiger]

i use buttons and images for a card game ... if i use the method grid_forget no error occurs, but i dont know why 3 of 5 buttons stay on screen and they should disappear ... if i use the method destroy i get at least this error message, but i dont understand it

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tkinter/init.py", line 1892, in call
return self.func(*args)
File "/mnt/linux_d/Python/PyCharmSchnapsenGUINew/main.py", line 383, in <lambda>
command=lambda i=i: player1click(i)))
File "/mnt/linux_d/Python/PyCharmSchnapsenGUINew/main.py", line 32, in player1click
playedcomputercard.configure(image=newimage)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tkinter/init.py", line 1646, in configure
return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tkinter/init.py", line 1636, in _configure
self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: invalid command name ".!myownbutton3"

[tawdry mulch]

It means the button is destroyed and cannot be reused. Show the code? @leaden tiger

[leaden tiger]

my code is about 450 lines

[tawdry mulch]

!paste

[proven basin]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pydis.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[leaden tiger]

https://pastebin.com/mHF6MeSG

[sullen thunder]

Hey is there a best practice for developing a GUI for variable screen resolutions?

[tawdry mulch]

I've been trying to find the answer too 😦

[sullen thunder]

Currently I am just planning to address it one screen at a time and manually check the 3 primary resolutions.

[modern marsh]

check the Qt forums

[sullen thunder]

Yeah I will do some research. Just thought I would poke in and ask. I will report back

[leaden tiger]

@tawdry mulch is the code readable?

[rugged marsh]

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.geometry('300x130')

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(root, currencies1, *OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
w.grid(row=0, column=0)

def swap():
    cur1option = currencies1.get()
    cur2option = currencies2.get()
    currencies1 = cur2option
    currencies2 = cur1option
swapButton = Button(root, text="Swap", command=swap)
swapButton.grid(row=1,column=0)

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies2 = StringVar(root)
currencies2.set(OPTIONS[1]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(root, currencies2, *OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
w.grid(row=2, column=0)

This is my code, and I wanna swap options when "Swap" Button is pressed. But it gives me an error when I press instead:

    cur1option = currencies1.get()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'currencies1' referenced before assignment

why is that?

[sullen thunder]

Interesting to see, how I am not alone. I scrolled up to see your issue. I do agree with using Pyside/PyQt for the project over tinker. I am biased though.

I know for my situation I plan to adjust me interface designs to adjust based upon the received screen size. Just a slow approach, got like 15 screens to work on.

[tawdry mulch]

Use different variable name

[modern marsh]

don't import * :(

huh

why are there two OPTIONS

[tawdry mulch]

What do you want to swap

[tawdry mulch]

There is wayy lot of code

[leaden tiger]

yeah, i told you its about 450 lines 🙂

i checked the buttons which he should hide and he counts 5 buttons ... so normally they should all disappear

[tawdry mulch]

What I meant is there are pictures and module that IDH from your code, which wont run. @leaden tiger

[leaden tiger]

what do you mean?

[tawdry mulch]

Your code uses pictures and some modules named 'Classes'. Since I dont have those, I cannot run this.

[leaden tiger]

do you want a screenshot?

classes is a different file

i just pasted two files in one paste

1-58 is file classes and the rest is file main

[tawdry mulch]

Oh god, should've said it.

[leaden tiger]

sorry 😦

the game looks like this

[tawdry mulch]

Where do you use grid_forget, line number I mean

[shadow perch]

you should make the cards simpler in my opinion

[leaden tiger]

line 215 and 237

[tawdry mulch]

I am sorry, the code is not debuggable. I would recommend you use print() and verify the values and then proceed slowly. @leaden tiger

[leaden tiger]

i already did that :( ... which variables do you mean exactly?

[tawdry mulch]

Which all widgets you expect to disappear. Use print() on them and make sure they are accessible?

[leaden tiger]

do you mean print(button)? i checked on those two lines (215 and 237) the buttons which the gui should hide. every computer button appears in command line

[amber sorrel]

Hey I had an idea to make a GUI for viewing pdfs from scratch and also merge multiple pdfs into one. Anyone has any idea for making it happen ?

[ivory ember]

i'd recommend a logger instead of print

[lament rampart]

Hello, I am working with pyqt5 and his tools currently and i want when to click a button to go from the current .ui, that i have designed, to another .ui. I achieved that with using stacked widget(widget= QtWidgets.QStackedWidget()) and then widget.addWidget(ui that i want to go) and finally widget.setCurrentWidget(...). The problem was when i went to another python file and imported the widget variable and did the same thing and pops the message "Process finished with exit code -1073740791 (0xC0000409)" (IDE:Pycharm) and then it exits. But when i am working with all my classes in the same file i dont have a problem. Is there any way to solve that? Thanks in advance.

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmmm keep debugging IG, I am out of ideas 😦

[leaden tiger]

@tawdry mulch if you want i can send you the pictures in private chat ... i am searching for the error since 1 week

[remote ravine]

hey anyone knows how t properly remove a widget from a layout ( I am trying to remove every widget from the layout)

for i in reversed(range(self._vbox.count()-1)):
  self.layout.removeItem(self.layout.itemAt(i))
  # or 
  self.layout.itemAt(i).widget().setParent(None)
  # or
  self.layout.itemAt(i).widget().deleteLater()

nothing worked so far (the solutions above do not work)

[tawdry mulch]

Make it all into a zip file and send, ill try to debug when im free 🙂

[ivory ember]

actually doing this rn and this worked perfectly

def clear_attachments(self):
        widgets = (self.attached_files_container_widget_layout.itemAt(i).widget() for i in range(self.attached_files_container_widget_layout.count()))
        
        for widget in widgets:
            if widget != self.add_file_button:
                widget.setParent(None)

@remote ravine please let me know if that works

[hybrid spindle]

just starting to play around with pyqt. Trying to have multiple tabs with plots. Currently, my script is plotting all figures under the last created tab. How would one specify a tab to connect each figure to?

[rugged marsh]

I want to swap like if option 1 is USD and option2 is EUR, then when i press the button, option1 becomes EUR and option2 becomes USD

[tawdry mulch]

Use config(text=....) rather than switching variables

[rugged marsh]

It acts like the updownarrowbutton here

[tawdry mulch]

Follow this @rugged marsh

[rugged marsh]

Okay

Ahh i get it

Thanks

[rugged marsh]

@tawdry mulch

i tried this....

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.geometry('300x130')

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(root, currencies1, *OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
w.grid(row=0, column=0)


def swap():
    print(currencies1.get())
    print(currencies2.get())
    w.config(text=currencies2)
    z.config(text=currencies1)
swapButton = Button(root, text="Swap", command=swap)
swapButton.grid(row=1,column=0)

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies2 = StringVar(root)
currencies2.set(OPTIONS[1]) # default value

z = OptionMenu(root, currencies2, *OPTIONS)
z.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
z.grid(row=2, column=0)

no errors, but didnt swap too

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmmmm why dont you rethink your approach, you are using lists

and then you try to set to a single word

And I recommend using ttk.Combobox.

@rugged marsh

[rugged marsh]

Sure! Ty for the suggestion :)

[tawdry mulch]

I just did that for you

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk

root = Tk()
# root.geometry('300x130')

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies1, values=OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
w.grid(row=0, column=0)

def swap():
    print(currencies1.get())
    print(currencies2.get())
    a,b = currencies2.get(),currencies1.get()
    currencies1.set(a)
    currencies2.set(b)

swapButton = Button(root, text="Swap", command=swap)
swapButton.grid(row=1,column=0)

currencies2 = StringVar(root)
currencies2.set(OPTIONS[1]) # default value

z = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies2, values=OPTIONS)
z.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
z.grid(row=2, column=0)

root.mainloop()

@rugged marsh

I made a few changes, check again

[rugged marsh]

Tyvm, lemme try runnin it.

[rugged marsh]

IT WORKS!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! @tawdry mulch \

[rugged marsh]

how can i change the size of a dropdown option box in tkinter?

see? the text INSIDE gets out of the box

[eager beacon]

I'd start by changing the font size to something smaller than what you are using right now.

Did you get it working?

[rugged marsh]

But i dont wanna

Cuz i gotta make it large to match the big screen

[digital rose]

I think combobox has a width attribute. Try this:

z = ttk.Combobox(... .. . , width=10)
 .. .. 

@rugged marsh

[rugged marsh]

Thanks

[digital rose]

If that doesnt work you can instead use the expand option in .pack() by saying something like this:

z.pack(side=TOP, fill=X, expand=True)

So that it expands horizontally to fit the size of the screen whenever you resize the window.

You can even say fill=BOTH so it completely resizes, not just horizontally. @rugged marsh

[rugged marsh]

hi

convertButton = Button(root, text="Convert", command=button_command, bg='blue')
convertButton.grid(row=1,column=3)

[eager beacon]

The code you had originally looked find on a mac

[rugged marsh]

can anyone tell me why the button is still not blue?

[rugged marsh]

?

/wdym

im using a mac, yeah

[eager beacon]

On my machine the characters were within their combo boxes

[rugged marsh]

why???

[eager beacon]

idk

[rugged marsh]

why not mine???

[eager beacon]

i just copied and pasted what you posted

[rugged marsh]

oh i wasnt using combo box

thats why

[eager beacon]

hmm, I think you were..

[rugged marsh]

hmm

# Import tkinter
from tkinter import *

ok now this is what i did

w = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies1, values=OPTIONS)

what i inserted

it said something about name 'ttk' is not defined

@eager beacon

[eager beacon]

so add from tkinter import ttk

[rugged marsh]

ok,

just did

 w = ttk.Combobox(root, currencies1, *OPTIONS)
TypeError: __init__() takes from 1 to 2 positional arguments but 13 were given

now this

@eager beacon

[eager beacon]

remove the * from OPTIONS

[rugged marsh]

@eager beacon

looks kinda strange

not the font, i changed it

[eager beacon]

Yeah I don't know. Maybe the widget containing the combo boxes doesn't have enough room to expand... I don't really use Tk

[eager beacon]

The code from this post produced the screenshot I sent you

[digital rose]

@eager beacon a combobox needs individual elements, removing the * means we are passing an array.

That would throw an error.

[rugged marsh]

don't know what u mean

[eager beacon]

It doesn't

[digital rose]

It does.

Look up the docs.

[rugged marsh]

so... what should i do

[eager beacon]

run the code from the post above

[digital rose]

What do you need help with?

[rugged marsh]

enlarge combobox

[eager beacon]

No errors

[digital rose]

^

[rugged marsh]

the font size is 20, not 30

ah

thx @digital rose

[digital rose]

Use the .pack () instead of grid.

[rugged marsh]

but my whole code is using grid

dont wanna change

[eager beacon]

30 works just the same for me 🥲

[digital rose]

You can do that only for these three widgets, the two comboboxes and the swap button.

[rugged marsh]

hm

lemme try

[digital rose]

Here, i did it for you.

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk

root = Tk()
# root.geometry('300x130')

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies1, values=OPTIONS, width=10)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 10))
w.pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)

def swap():
    print(currencies1.get())
    print(currencies2.get())
    a,b = currencies2.get(),currencies1.get()
    currencies1.set(a)
    currencies2.set(b)

swapButton = Button(root, text="Swap", command=swap)
swapButton.pack(side=TOP)

currencies2 = StringVar(root)
currencies2.set(OPTIONS[1]) # default value

z = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies2, values=OPTIONS)
z.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 10))
z.pack(side="top",fill=BOTH, expand=True)

root.mainloop()

[rugged marsh]

cant use this code without using pack?

[digital rose]

Try running this code.

You'll see enlarged combo boxes.

[rugged marsh]

is this not available to grid?

[digital rose]

No.

Those args are for .pack()

[rugged marsh]

...

[digital rose]

Did you run it?

[rugged marsh]

no unfortunately, cuz using pack means i gotta change my whole code literally

[digital rose]

You can run this code in a new file

[rugged marsh]

and im not very good at using pack

it's not very long thou

[digital rose]

Dont change what you presently have, just run it in a new file.

[rugged marsh]

mind teaching me about pack?

so i can use it in the future

@digital rose

[digital rose]

You can look it up in the docs, its impossible to teach so many arguments within pack. Just briefing you about it:
Pack is just another geometry method to render widgets only, and the arguments i use are:
side, fill, and expand.

[rugged marsh]

padx, pady?

[digital rose]

what?

[rugged marsh]

does using pack means i gotta delete all grid stuff?

if yes, so be it, imma learn pack today

[digital rose]

I did that for you. Just run my code in a separate file.

[rugged marsh]

oh

ok]

[digital rose]

This is my code.

[rugged marsh]

this is just my testing code

this is my whole code

ahh no

not this

sorry

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/gigupimefo.csharp

this Î

@digital rose

[digital rose]

Erm, you just need to this:

widget.grid(.. .. . )

To:

widget.pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)

Thats all.

You dont need to do anything else.

[rugged marsh]

oh

thanks

[digital rose]

It would've been better to understand this if you would've run my code there.

[rugged marsh]

so my .grid(row=0,column=0 can be kept

?

[digital rose]

No , replace that with the pack statement.

[rugged marsh]

so change all of that?

[digital rose]

You can comment it out if you dont want to remove it.

[rugged marsh]

nah imma duplicate my file

[digital rose]

Thank god you understood it.

Thats what ive been saying for the past 15 minutes 😆

[rugged marsh]

??

?!?!

:(

im depressed

[digital rose]

Thats an example of how you can expand your combobox.

[rugged marsh]

...

[digital rose]

Theres no other built-in way, except to just change your font size.

[rugged marsh]

oof

k

thanks all @eager beacon @digital rose

[modern marsh]

how do Tk widgets look on mac?

non ttk

[eager beacon]

did you ever use windows 3.1?

[digital rose]

like ordinary widgets. its better on mac, because they look better than they do on windows, atleast.

[modern marsh]

oh ok

[digital rose]

@rugged marsh i get this on my windows machine, and it does increase the size of the entry in the combo box.

[rugged marsh]

Using mac

[digital rose]

i dont really know whats wrong with the size increase on your mac.

[rugged marsh]

different os diff results

[digital rose]

mm hmm.

[eager beacon]

Which Macos version are you using?

[digital rose]

@eager beacon does this code work for your mac?

[rugged marsh]

11.0.1

[digital rose]

similar to what it does on my windows?

[eager beacon]

which version of the code?

[digital rose]

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk

root = Tk()
# root.geometry('300x130')

OPTIONS = [
"USD",
"EUR",
"JPY",
"GBP",
"AUD",
"CAD",
"CHF",
"CNY",
"HKD",
"NZD"
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies1, values=OPTIONS, height=10)
w.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
w.pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)

def swap():
    print(currencies1.get())
    print(currencies2.get())
    a,b = currencies2.get(),currencies1.get()
    currencies1.set(a)
    currencies2.set(b)

swapButton = Button(root, text="Swap", command=swap)
swapButton.pack(side=TOP)

currencies2 = StringVar(root)
currencies2.set(OPTIONS[1]) # default value

z = ttk.Combobox(root, textvariable=currencies2, values=OPTIONS, height=100)
z.config(font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold", 20))
z.pack(side="top",fill=BOTH, expand=True)

root.mainloop()

this one.

[eager beacon]

When I increase the font size it forces the combobox to make room for the new font size

let me see

I get this

[digital rose]

for the code i just sent?

[eager beacon]

Yes

[digital rose]

try maximising the window.

the boxes should expand.

[eager beacon]

They do

[digital rose]

@rugged marsh try maximising then. it should fix your problem.

[digital rose]

phew! it works finally.

[eager beacon]

you don't even need to maximize, just increase the size of the window

[digital rose]

and run this code @rugged marsh

[rugged marsh]

K

Maybe tmr i gtg rest

[remote ravine]

your solution is the same as (code below), which doesn't work for some reason

for i in reversed(range(self._vbox.count()-1)):
  self.layout.itemAt(i).widget().setParent(None)

[eager beacon]

What are you trying to do?

[remote ravine]

nvm

for some reason i had to make a tuple first and iterate over it and remove each widget object with self.layout.removeWidget(widget)

weird

@QtCore.pyqtSlot()
def _remove_all_items(self) -> None:
    widgets = (self._vbox.itemAt(i).widget() for i in reversed(range(self._vbox.count())))
    for widget in widgets:
        self._vbox.removeWidget(widget)

seems to work

[eager beacon]

If you're not going to use the widget again you should call widget.deleteLater() also

[remote ravine]

so

[eager beacon]

removing the widget does not delete the widget from memory

[remote ravine]

oh

thank you

[eager beacon]

sure

[remote ravine]

@QtCore.pyqtSlot()
def _remove_all_items(self) -> None:
    widgets = (self._vbox.itemAt(i).widget() for i in reversed(range(self._vbox.count())))
    for widget in widgets:
        self._vbox.removeWidget(widget)
        widget.deleteLater()
```like this ?

[eager beacon]

yeah

[remote ravine]

nice

thank you !

is it worth looking into qt6 already ?

[eager beacon]

nope

[remote ravine]

oki

[eager beacon]

Stay away until 6.2

There are still a lot of things missing

[remote ravine]

i aint touching qt6 till KDE (like DE like Gnome) switches to qt6

[eager beacon]

then you've probably got some time 🙂

[remote ravine]

yeah. indeed

anyways... thank you !

[eager beacon]

no problem

[digital rose]

Do you use tkinter? DM! me if you want to join a cool tkinter based server!

[digital rose]

is there a way to manipulate a GUI lib to generate multiple input cursors in a text box? i dont need to stick to a particular lib, like tkinter, or PyQT, just wanted to get this done.

[tawdry mulch]

Yes those are

[tawdry mulch]

Well tk uses the OS default widgets and its event processing system, AFAIK. MAC OS has better UI, so....

@digital rose invite meh in!

[tawdry mulch]

There is something similar for grid() too right

[tawdry mulch]

@rugged marsh Just post a screenshot of expected result, ill try to recreate it

[tulip cedar]

Hey I'm a bit new out here.
Idk of my question makes a lot of sense but I've been trying to develop an application that can be used on desktop, iOS and Android systems. I ONLY know python as a programming language and want to avoid using html, css javascript throughout the app making process.
Is there a way to do that if I need a decent enough UI/UX interface?

I don't know how to use any of the python frameworks like django, flask, pyqt, Tkinter, etc but would be willing to learn anything that involves python as a programming language

[modern marsh]

Kivy would be best

you can use PySide or PyQt but uhh

there is not enough documentation on it

if you can learn other stuff, try out Qt Quick

[digital rose]

yo what are thesee

[tawdry mulch]

These are the label objects along with some floating point numbers

[digital rose]

Okay any idea on how to remove them???

or not include them in a list?

@tawdry mulch

I've been trying to get rid of them in my list for 2 hours now

also they're Label related

not Entry boxes

[abstract crown]

can we see some code

and what are you trying to do?

[digital rose]

Im trying to create multiple labels using loop

def Average_Equation(First, Second, Third, Fourth):
    Average_Cell = eval(str((int(Data[First].get())+int(Data[Second].get())+int(Data[Third].get())+int(Data[Fourth].get()))/4))
    Average_of_Cells.append(Average_Cell)
    print(Average_of_Cells)
    for Repeat, Loop in zip(Number_Of_Labels,Average_of_Cells): 
        Loop.config(text=list(zip(Number_Of_Labels,Average_of_Cells)))

this is what comes out :/

and also

for Repeat in Number_Of_Labels:
    Label_4_Average = Label(screen, text=Average_of_Cells, font=('TkDefaultFont', 20, 'bold'))
    Average_of_Cells.append(Label_4_Average)
    Y_Label += 80
    Label_4_Average.place(x=200, y=Y_Label)

This is what I used to actually display

[abstract crown]

so your trying to make a grid system that lets you place labels inside of the area of the grid?

[tawdry mulch]

What do you expect to come? @digital rose

[digital rose]

the average of specific numbers

[tawdry mulch]

First use print() and verify what Data[First] is then Data[First].get(). @digital rose

[modern marsh]

Whats the use of adding the @slot decorater ?

[digital rose]

how do i set a footer at the top of the tkintr?

[dry jungle]

Is there anyone who could freeze (compile) the PySide6 project? I think that I can't find any "middle-difficult" solution for this. PyInstaller seems not working with it. FBS is paid. Cxfreeze... Well, I have a mess with it. So isn't there any way to compile my project?

[dry jungle]

Okay, I somehow made it to work. I don't know which step helped me, but I've done this: upgraded cxfreeze with pip --upgrade cx_Freeze PySide6 (similarly as in cx_freeze PySide2 example on GitHub), move build catalog into the direction without Cyrillic symbols, then I noticed, that it tells about missing .qss file - when I added it into catalog with the executable, then it started working.

[modern marsh]

If you see the pyside docs they talk about issues with pyinstaller and support for it

Same follows for another new and upcoming tool called nuitka

Pyside is releasing version 6.1 this or next week

And there is supposedly full nuitka support for it

[dry jungle]

I hope that in the Nuitka case the build will have less size, than in the cx_freeze case. Or tools for reaching less size

[modern marsh]

I do not know about that

Just gave you another option

[digital rose]

Does anyone know how mouseevent flags work in pyside 6? I tried looking at the both dir(event.flags()) and help(event.flags()), and tried reading documentation aswell and doing a bunch of googling, but I can't find anything on how the flags attribute works. The reason I'm trying to figure this out is because I want to get the pos of the mouse click, but all the methods to do so are depreciated except for event.flags(), which supposedly has the details of the event inside of it.

[digital rose]

Nevermind, I'm a fool, there's a function for what it inherits called "position()" that does what I need

[unique forge]

I'd say PyQt

[wooden bough]

I've been using tkinter, and most of it i get. However when I try to incorporate classes that create a button or canvas or oval it; it starts falling apart.

Maybe i should avoid using classes? I've been getting overwhelmed at that stage.

[fiery flare]

can i set up turtle with tkinter?

like setting up the turtle thing on a canvas of tkinter is it possible?

[digital rose]

It depends on what you've been doing with your classes. The only thing i literally do is use classes! This is how a small program will look for me in tkinter, every time i start making one from scratch.

from tkinter import *

class Foo(Canvas):
    # the class name that is changed everytime.
    pass

class MainWindow(Tk):
    def __init__(self,):
        Tk.__init__(self)

This is a template i use everytime. The way you're incorporating classes could be wrong. It could not be a reason to discard the use of classes.

[digital rose]

To let you know, turtle is written in tkinter. So already the screen you are using has a tkinter Canvas embedded in it.

As far as i know, you can only use a Turtle object on a turtle.Screen() instance.

[modern marsh]

classes are best

[austere sun]

Anyone got any tips for making TUIs look good?

[rough isle]

You can use a library like Curses, npyscreen (https://npyscreen.readthedocs.io/) or Urwid (http://urwid.org/) to get some nice layouts, widgets and colors.

[digital rose]

I made this in Tkinter it is good?

[tall mesa]

Hi i am making second window in my app, and i cant change variable in Entry (after running the entry is empty, even if there should be "hello")

def new_file(*input):
    global filename, textn1, textn2, textn3
    window_new = tkinter.Tk()
    window_new.title("New File")
    filename = askopenfilename()
    label1 = tkinter.Label(window_new, text="FileName")
    label2 = tkinter.Label(window_new, text="FileExtension")
    label3 = tkinter.Label(window_new, text="Description")
    textn1 = tkinter.StringVar()
    textn1.set("hello")
    textn2 = tkinter.StringVar()
    textn3 = tkinter.StringVar()
    in1 = tkinter.Entry(window_new, textvariable=textn1)
    in2 = tkinter.Entry(window_new, textvariable=textn2)
    in3 = tkinter.Entry(window_new, textvariable=textn3)
    label1.grid(row=0, column=0)
    label2.grid(row=1, column=0)
    label3.grid(row=2, column=0)
    in1.grid(row=0, column=1)
    in2.grid(row=1, column=1)
    in3.grid(row=2, column=1)
    window_new.mainloop()

[digital rose]

oh First when you want to make a new window make Toplevel() and not Tk() Tk() should be one in the script

[tall mesa]

Ok thank you so much 😄 It works now

[digital rose]

huh ? nice

when you want to insert text to Entry do.insert(index:int, text:str) :

my_entry.insert(0, "Hello")

and when you want to insert it at the end without int index do:

my_entry.insert(tkinter.END, "Hello")

[tall mesa]

Oh ok. But maybe i will use tk variables. Idk why but it is more comfortable for me to use.

[digital rose]

yes but as the usual way and the best way to insert text to Entry is the .insert(index:int, text:str) function it's made for that 👍🏼

[tall mesa]

Ok. I will look more into that

[digital rose]

keep going in Tkinter 👍🏼

[tall mesa]

Thanks 😄

[digital rose]

you are welcome

[tall mesa]

I have another problem. I have two listboxes in app (list1, list2) and i have bind on list1 if i select something. But it activates even, if i select something in list2. And function list1.selection_get() returns what i selected in list2 !! pls would you help me?

[digital rose]

did you want to call a func when the listbox have focus

[tall mesa]

I want to call func when i click on element in list1 (left) and another function on element list2 (right) But when i click on list2 list1 function is activated

[digital rose]

make tow different functions for list1 : list1.bind("<<ListboxSelect>>", list_1) and list2 : list1.bind("<<ListboxSelect>>", list_2)
or ?

[tall mesa]

This is function for list1. But idk why it gets called even if i click on the list2

And function for list2 is not done yet. But this was causing errors (thanks god for try: except: XD)

[digital rose]

strange did you call it with bind in the another list list2 and you didn't know?

[digital rose]

Lol

[proven basin]

Hey @tall mesa!

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

[tall mesa]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/leneraguwo.py

This is my code. I sent most important parts in screenshots, but i could have missed something.

[digital rose]

nice I will take a look at it

how do i att text to tkinter?

[digital rose]

att؟

[digital rose]

your script run like this

[tall mesa]

Yeah, because it is connecting to my API...

[digital rose]

and give me error after a while

[digital rose]

this does not work

do you want a text showing on ?

yrs

[digital rose]

append ?

to the tkinter.Text

idk.. i am new to this

[tall mesa]

If you are using tkinter.Tk() you need to add
home_text.grid(row=0, column=0)

And also i think Text is wrong command you should use Label (text is used for input as far as i know)

[digital rose]

oh ok, ty

did you mean Text the multi line text ? because tkinter.Text is for that

but if you want just output text uneditable use tkinter.Label instead

[digital rose]

because

tkinter.Text doesn't have text command like tkinter.Label

it's just multiline input text

[tall mesa]

also you have "," so it will be syntax error and i think there needs to be root/window too?

[digital rose]

Im new to tkinter, but why does this not work?

def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(text="What would you liek your username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    frame.mainloop()
    username = entry.get()

This is outside of that

frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')```

what is the Error?

Nothing

It just does nothing

i cant see any problem

It just sits there like a potato

ah

easy

[tall mesa]

I would suggest to add button to function, where would be entry.get()

or something like that

[digital rose]

just cut that frame.mainloop() to the last line of your file

Hmm

Well

That did something

But not the right thing

It now just skips over it

call the function ? accountcreate()

?

Oh

Thats called in another function tho

like:

import tkinter as tk
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')
def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    username = entry.get()

accountcreate()
frame.mainloop()

Uh

More like

from tkinter import *
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')
def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    username = entry.get()
def start():
    accountcreate()
start()
frame.mainloop()

[digital rose]

your function doesn't have self and self important to work if you use bind

[tall mesa]

what do you mean by that?

[digital rose]

the list1 function dosen't have self parameter

and it's required to work on .bind function

try:

def update_inputs(self, *input):
    ...

[digital rose]

this will work.

I can confirm it does not

this mean your IDE actually have a problem

Im using python idle

[tall mesa]

Nope. I have *input because of that, so i can use function without arguments too. It is doing the same thing!!
Output:

prints in except

[tall mesa]

In IDLE you dont need .mainloop()

I mean in original python idle

[digital rose]

What do i need?

[tall mesa]

But this does not seem like original python idle

[digital rose]

try this:

import tkinter as tk
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')

def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(frame,text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    username = entry.get()

def start():
    accountcreate()

start()

if not working this mean this is not original python idle

Ya it does not work, does the same as before, just skips it over

I have alot more code than that tho

[digital rose]

try this if not working your idle have a problem:

import tkinter as tk
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')

def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(frame,text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    username = entry.get()

def start():
    accountcreate()

start()
frame.mainloop()

Ahem

It does not work

[tall mesa]

Ok i am trying to make working code with this i will send it to you

[digital rose]

your IDLE have a problem

to fix it

check your python include path

it's important to add bin and lib

[tall mesa]

This does not work on my pc too

I will redo it

[digital rose]

How do i do that?

[digital rose]

this is working for me:

import tkinter as tk
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')

def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(frame,text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    username = entry.get()

def start():
    accountcreate()

start()
frame.mainloop()

[digital rose]

did you have windows ?

[digital rose]

Yeah

[tall mesa]

import tkinter as tk
frame = tk.Tk()
frame.title("Testing Program")
frame.geometry('400x200')


def accountcreate():
    label = tk.Label(frame,text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    button = tk.Button(frame, text="test", command=lambda: print(entry.get()))
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    button.pack()

def start():
    accountcreate()

start()
frame.mainloop()

This works 100%

[digital rose]

go to the search and search for env vars

[tall mesa]

You have button to test it (print username)

[digital rose]

Im there

[tall mesa]

It does run, but username var is emtpy, because you fill it on start, when entry is empty. That is why it did not work

[digital rose]

click on Edit Environment Varibles

[digital rose]

yes

but this is not his problem

Ok

[tall mesa]

I dont think there is problem with env var. Because it is running

His program is running

he sent screenshots did not he?

[digital rose]

It does run

[tall mesa]

Try my code and tell us if it prints right thing

[digital rose]

yes

if not you will have a problem with the library

Still skips over it and moves on to the other part of the code @tall mesa

[tall mesa]

You are running it with another code right? Then there must be error there. Because this is running on my machine and printing that user wrote into entry

[digital rose]

There shouldnt be

[digital rose]

Wdym , why you make that function?

Can i just send all my code, would make it alot easier to explain

[tall mesa]

Yeh you can. But with https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

Paste the code there, save and send us the link

[digital rose]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/curabatava.py

your app work well but why you use tkinter if your app just use prints?

Im starting to change it from print to tkinter

[tall mesa]

Just erase everythink and make it in tkinter. It will be more easy

But the window opens if you do this:

def accountcreate():
    frame = tk.Tk()
    frame.title("Testing Program")
    frame.geometry('400x200')
    label = tk.Label(frame,text="What would you liek your     username to be?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    button = tk.Button(frame, text="test", command=lambda: print(entry.get()))
    entry.pack()
    label.pack()
    button.pack()
    username = entry.get()
    frame.mainloop()
    if os.path.isfile("Users/" + username + '.txt'):
        print("You have an account already\n")
        login()
    else:
        password = input("What would you like your password to be?\n")
        f = open("Users/" + username + '.txt', "w")
        f.write(password)
        f.close()
        print("Account has been created, please login\n")
        login()

but it will not work

[digital rose]

oh I will do it and send to you

Ty

and you will take a look at it

yes

[digital rose]

not working for me

[tawdry mulch]

Is your button a ttk button?

[tawdry mulch]

Share some code

There are controllers and frame switching with tkinter available with OOP.

[tawdry mulch]

Depends on its purpose really

[digital rose]

yeah, this one works tho

[tawdry mulch]

I assume you are using multiple instances of Tk(), replace it with Toplevel()

[tawdry mulch]

It is useless though

[tawdry mulch]

Can you show your import statements?

[tawdry mulch]

Seems fine, though the first statement is useless, you can remove it.

What is the problem you are facing?

[digital rose]

i want to the button be at the corner

this is what i get

[tawdry mulch]

To begin with, I would never use place(), I would use grid().

Much easier

[gritty tree]

hey guys is possible to call a tkinter function every microsecond instead of a millisecond?

[tawdry mulch]

Yes, millisecond*1000 @gritty tree

[digital rose]

what should i print instead of the x and y?

[gritty tree]

isnt that a second? @tawdry mulch u mean ms/1000_

[tawdry mulch]

@digital rose It uses rows and columns

[tawdry mulch]

Silly me 😉

But I would discourage it though. It might cause slight delay to other events being processed

[gritty tree]

@tawdry mulch i receive a bad argument error...

[tawdry mulch]

Give an example? @gritty tree

[gritty tree]

window.after(1/500,Lettura())
bad argument "0.002": must be cancel, idle, info, or an integer

[tawdry mulch]

Hmm as i thought you cannot pass in decimals

That means the min value that you can pass is 1 microseconds

Less than that is not acceptable

[gritty tree]

im basically making an oscilloscope with arduino, and i have to read data from it very often with 1ms i can only receive 500hz signal or less

[tawdry mulch]

So to answers your question, nope

[tawdry mulch]

I see, its not possible I think.

[gritty tree]

which alternative i have to tkinter?

[digital rose]

oh, ty

[tawdry mulch]

I don't think there is anything

What do you want to use?

[gritty tree]

then its possible to create a background software for the GUI? i mean the background software communicate with the arduino while the gui works for itself

[tawdry mulch]

Oh you mean in terminal?

Oh sorry my bad, since this UI channel, I thought you were referring to one.

Use if else?

[tawdry mulch]

after_idle() would fire up as soon as there is no other task left to process.

[gritty tree]

it can happens in less than a ms?

[tawdry mulch]

It does not take any arguements. As long as there is no events to process. func will be called

I recommend you ask this question on stackoverflow, there might be someway that I am not aware of.

[gritty tree]

ok thank you

[digital rose]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ajufikajak.py

[digital rose]

Ill check that out in a min

[digital rose]

👍🏼

[tawdry mulch]

take input from user? What do you want to display? @digital rose

[digital rose]

I dont think you can do this is python. The simplest of loops may take less than an ms, but that's not possible when you're calling a function on top of it.

If you want the user to be re directed to a page, you can create an instance of a Toplevel() (in tkinter.).

Ah.

A naive yet okay-ish approach could be to store the different pages in a dict and clear the terminal at every interval, using something like

os.system('cls')

which is just an example.

Your program structure could look like this:

Take input
Process it
Clear page
Draw new page

@digital rose

[tawdry mulch]

And how is this related to UI ? @distant abyss

[distant abyss]

wrong channel my bad

[hybrid spindle]

in tkinter, is there a way to save user inputs as a variable? Everything I can find just uses a throw away function in the Entry command and idk how to use the inputs further downstream.

What im exactly after is to have the initial window ask the user for a filename and a couple other parameters, then based on the loaded data it can open up multiple new windows to display that information. But no idea how to use the user input outside of the command function for said entry

[tawdry mulch]

Use global @hybrid spindle

[hybrid spindle]

I did 😦 even tried throwing global in every class. Idk maybe im an idiot and forgot how to use global lmao

[tawdry mulch]

Shw an exampel?

[eager beacon]

You can do this with PyQt/PySide2 with QTextCursor inside a QTextDocument

[unique forge]

[hybrid spindle]

`def load_dat():
global filepath
filepath = datapath_txt.get(1.0,"end-1c")
if filepath:
newWindow = tk.Toplevel(app)

datapath_txt = tk.Text(self,height=3,width=30)
datapath_txt.pack()

pulldat = tk.Button(self,text='Use Path',command=load_dat)
pulldat.pack()

print(filepath)`

[tawdry mulch]

!code

[proven basin]

Here's how to format Python code on Discord:

```py
print('Hello world!')
```

These are backticks, not quotes. Check this out if you can't find the backtick key.

[hybrid spindle]

it always screams at me when i do three🤷‍♂️

def load_dat():
            global filepath
            filepath = datapath_txt.get(1.0,"end-1c")
            if filepath:
                newWindow = tk.Toplevel(app)

datapath_txt = tk.Text(self,height=3,width=30)
datapath_txt.pack()
        
pulldat = tk.Button(self,text='Use Path',command=load_dat)
pulldat.pack()
        
print(filepath)

[tawdry mulch]

Nothing seems wrong

[hybrid spindle]

printing filepath yields ' ' or none.

I suppose I can just make the main program inside that load_dat() function though

[shrewd raven]

are you doing this object oriented?

[hybrid spindle]

yupyup

[shrewd raven]

you could use self to store the variable as an attribute of your class? self.filepath = ...

idk if its best practice or not, but when im doing oop i put literally everything within one class or another, and my if __name__ == "__main__" only contains the instance of my class main or similar, and i avoid globals and only use class method locals (ie not self.something) when its a throwaway or temporary variable.

[hybrid spindle]

Yeah I think my issue with that is that I'm doing everything on the initialization page or the main app. So it wont wait for user input and immediately tries to execute it. So I did try self, but i think it fails due to the previous statement.

Idk for some reason I struggle with oop and GUI's....probably cause I have virtually no experience with GUIs

[tawdry mulch]

Paste the entire code? @hybrid spindle

[shrewd raven]

oop guis can be a right pain to get going with, but once you get past the initial stages and it clicks, youll be making them like its nothing at all

[tawdry mulch]

Why is a pain ? 😉 @shrewd raven

[shrewd raven]

to begin with it just doesnt make sense in context of a gui, it gets frustrating especially if you havent done much with oop. but it gets very easy very fast after the initial learning curve

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmm OOP is more flexible but if you ask me, I don't use OOP for simple projects at all @shrewd raven

indeed NONE of my projects use OOP

I mean the main projects dont, I use OOP to make widgets though

[hybrid spindle]

class App(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self,*args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self,*args,**kwargs) 
        container =  tk.Frame(self)
        container.pack(side='top', fill='both', expand=True)
        container.grid_rowconfigure(0,weight=1) 
        container.grid_columnconfigure(0,weight=1)
        self.container = container
        
        self.frames = {}
        frame = StartPage(container, self)
    
        self.frames = frame
        frame.grid(row=0,column=0,sticky='nsew')  
        self.show_frame(StartPage)
        
    def show_frame(self,cont):
        frame = self.frames
        frame.tkraise()
        
class StartPage(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self,parent, controller):
        global filepath
        tk.Frame.__init__(self,parent)
        label = tk.Label(self,text = "File Path", font = LARGE_FONT) #page title
        label.pack(pady=10,padx=10)
        
        def load_dat(self):
            global filepath
            filepath = datapath_txt.get(1.0,"end-1c")
            self.filepath = filepath
            data = Load(filepath)
            print(data.wave)
            if filepath:
                newWindow = tk.Toplevel(app)
                
                f = Figure(figsize=(8,6),dpi=100)
                axes = f.add_subplot(111)
                axes.plot([1,2,3,4,5,6,7],[1,2,3,4,5,6,7])

                canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(f,self)
                canvas.draw()
                canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=True)

                toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas,self)
                toolbar.update()
                canvas._tkcanvas.pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=True)      
            
            
        datapath_txt = tk.Text(self,height=3,width=30)
        datapath_txt.pack()
        
        pulldat = tk.Button(self,text='Use Path',command=load_dat)
        pulldat.pack()

Ideally I'd like to have another class or two similar to StartPage that initializes new windows after the user inputs the filepath. But couldn't figure out how to pass the container to the load_dat() function for it to do this. I'd rather it not open up an entirely new window with TopLevel, but that was all I could get working

[tawdry mulch]

Still foggy to me

What is datapath_txt? @hybrid spindle

[hybrid spindle]

just a textbox for the user to input their filename/path. Essentially same as the Label/Entry/Button method to getting user input

[tawdry mulch]

What is the issue with this code?

Seems fine to me

[hybrid spindle]

I was hoping to avoid using the toplevel and opening a new window. Wanted one overall window and to initialize new windows/ buttons to link to the new windows after the user inputs their information. Unfortunately without toplevel, it wont wait for user input....and reads filepath as empty.

[tawdry mulch]

You just want to wait for filepath to be entered or verified?

[hybrid spindle]

yeah pretty much thats it. Then integrate this instead of the above:

    def load_dat(parent,controller):
        global filepath
        filepath = datapath_txt.get(1.0,"end-1c")
        if filepath:
            data = Load(filepath)
            frame = PageOne(parent,controller,data)

class Load:
    def __init__(self,filename):
        data = fits.open(filename)[1].data
        self.flux = data['FLUX']
        self.wave = data['WAVE']
        self.error = data['ERROR']
        
class PageOne(tk.Frame):
    
    def __init__(self, parent, controller,data):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self,parent)
        label = tk.Label(self,text = "Species 2", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label.pack(pady=10,padx=10)
        button1 = ttk.Button(self,text='Initial Species', 
                             command=lambda:controller.show_frame(StartPage))
        button1.pack()

^in place of the toplevel. But right now the "if filepath:" never executes as it evaluates this script before the user actually inputs/verifies? so filepath stays empty and nothing happens

[tawdry mulch]

That seems incorrect, in both case it should be same. Try putting print() and ensure the lines that get executed

[hybrid spindle]

have. It prints: " filepath= ' ' " immediately upon running and it doesnt wait for me to actually click the button.

but...currently just plowing through it using toplevel and having a complete new window....I guess its not a huge concern.

[tawdry mulch]

Ah I think I slightly get you

The thing is usualy, its like we enter the data first and then we execute the function AFTER the data is entered.

Here ig the data is not entered and then load_dat is called and after the if is done it continues

Oh wait that makes no sense. I am dumb

[tawdry mulch]

As you said, if print(filepath) prints empty then if filepath NEVER gets executed

[hybrid spindle]

yup....unfortunately haha. I mean I dont NEED to do it this way. Just thought itd be a nicer general program if the user could just input their data within the program.

[hybrid spindle]

yeahhhh and it immediately executes so its just a no good all around. I found a .wait_window() but I guess I wasn't entering the correct root or placed it wrong as it just disabled all my buttons/labels.

But spent like 6 hours on that problem lol so im just moving on with what I know will work.

[tawdry mulch]

Hmmmm if I could understand the problem I could help

hopefully next time :p

[hybrid spindle]

If I wasnt dumb I could properly explain my problem....but here we are haha

[tawdry mulch]

I'm pretty sure you did it good, I always have trouble reading text and understanding so nvm

[hybrid spindle]

a world full of idiots 😅

[ancient trench]

hi i need help with tkinter how can I switch frames uppon entering a button?

i'm trying to make a mysql crud that can access multiple tables

[digital rose]

@digital rose i thought it was me, nvm.
You could try storing the pages in separate functions, and then call them whenever you need to draw a new page. Look at this example:

from os import system
from datetime import datetime as dt

def page1():
    print('Welcome!')
def page2():
    now=dt.now()
    print(f'The date today is,{now.strftime("%d:%M:%Y"}')

pages={
    '1':page1,
    '2':page2,
}

while True:
    page=input('Enter the page number: ')
    if page == '1':
        system('cls')
        pages['1']()
    elif page == '2':
        system('cls')
        pages['2']()
    else:
        print('invalid page number')

This approach of storing the pages along with their functions in a dict, and calling them later, even though there can be many more solutions to this.

[pliant dagger]

I know we can use themes in tkinter with something like :

self.style.theme_use("classic")

So my question is how can I stop using a particular theme when a button is clicked?

def stop(self,*args):
  self.style.stop_using_theme("classic") #?????
B = Button(text="Click me",command = stop)
B.pack()

[tawdry mulch]

Try self.style.theme_use("default") inside the func? @pliant dagger

[pliant dagger]

ok just a min let me try it out

that doesn't work somehow

[tawdry mulch]

You might want to also say root.update() after it

[pliant dagger]

ah ok

that still doesn't work @tawdry mulch

[tawdry mulch]

Okay let me try it out

[pliant dagger]

sure

See my real problem is that I have a button and whenever I click it ,it changes the theme to classic,I also have another button which changes the theme to clam (My script automatically changes the theme to clam when run). So whenever I change the theme to classic it works alright but when I change the theme back to clam it doesn't work only the theme of that particular button gets changed to clam

[tawdry mulch]

Check this out

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk

def change():
    s.theme_use('default')

root = Tk()

s = ttk.Style()
s.theme_use('vista')

ttk.Label(root,text='Hello').pack()
ttk.Button(root,text='Damn',command=change).pack()

ttk.Button(root,text='Dummy').pack()

root.mainloop()

[pliant dagger]

this works

but I don't know why mine doesn't

[tawdry mulch]

Poste your code?

[pliant dagger]

that's almost 2k+ lines of code

[tawdry mulch]

The relevant parts

[pliant dagger]

ok

def Frontend(self):#User-interface
   theme_list = ['Dark theme', 'Light theme']
   self.root = Tk()
   self.root.tk.call('source','azure-dark.tcl') #Got this theme from github
   self.style.theme_use('azure-dark')
   self.themebox = ttk.Combobox(self.root, state='readonly', values=theme_list)
   self.themebox.current(0)
   self.themebox.place(x=640, y=8)

def print_combo(self,*args): #Change to light theme/dark theme here

        if self.themebox.get() == 'Light theme':
            try:
                if not self.called:
                    self.root.tk.call('source','azure.tcl')
                    self.called = True
                self.style.theme_use("azure")
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)
            
        if self.themebox.get() == "Dark theme":

            try:
                #self.style.theme_use("default")
                #self.root.tk.call('source','azure-dark.tcl')
                self.style.theme_use('azure-dark')
                print("Wo")
                self.root.update()
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)

there you go @tawdry mulch , sorry if you don't like mentions

[tawdry mulch]

Does any error come out?

[pliant dagger]

nope

[tawdry mulch]

That is the only way i get notified

Does the print statement get executed?

[pliant dagger]

yeah it does

the theme of the combobox gets changed

wouldya like to see my screen?

[zenith epoch]

can i get reviews on my ui?

[rotund stone]

Cool, which language/framework did you use?

[zenith epoch]

pyqt5

[turbid crow]

Epic!

[zenith epoch]

my pleasure

we arent even taught tkinter in my school, had learn all myself lel

[digital rose]

That is great!

One of the few designs that i actually like.

[zenith epoch]

[unique forge]

wow. thats really nice

[rough isle]

In terms of style it's quite nice, although in my opinion a different font might be nice. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the input boxes. I think the labels shouldn't disappear when typing, it confuses some people.

It does fit the general modern aesthetic though, and in terms of color/contrast it's really nice.

[zenith epoch]

i do not plan to release it as public software any soon, its for my school project and my teacher dont even how to make this much lmao so i am happy with it for but i will consider your suggestion tho

[rotund stone]

something similar to Material design?

[rough isle]

Not sure if that's specific to Material, I've seen it used a lot when people want to save space in small forms.

[zenith epoch]

i can wait to pull this application together, so much fun making this

my pleasure to hear this sir

[digital rose]

how do i loop that to update every minute?

[zenith epoch]

not the right place to ask mate, this is for ui only

[digital rose]

sry

[zenith epoch]

np

[rough isle]

Take a look at this code snippet, it does something similar to what you want to do and uses .after()

from tkinter import *
from datetime import datetime as dt

class MainWindow:
    def __init__(self):
        self.master = Tk()
        
        self.renderClock()
        self.updateClock()

        self.master.mainloop()
    def renderClock(self):
        self.clockLabel=Label(self.master, text="", font=("Consolas", 15, 'normal'))
        self.clockLabel.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X, expand=True)

    def updateClock(self):
        now = dt.now()
        t = now.strftime("%d/%M/%Y    %H:%M:%S")
        self.clockLabel.config(text=t)
        self.master.after(999, self.updateClock)
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = MainWindow()

[digital rose]

TY!

[hybrid spindle]

anyone have issues with pyqt5 just randomly not working? I havent even written any code. Copied an example, ran. Did fine. Ran again, buttons no longer work. Refresh and run...sometimes works sometimes doesnt

idk...my prof told me to use pyqt over tkinter, its "more stable".....first hour and it seems terrible.

[digital rose]

He asked this in context of updating a label in tkinter. He even shared a snippet.

[eager beacon]

@hybrid spindle It seems unlikely that the same code wouldn't work the same way when reloading a new instance of the app.

Are you sure you don't have unsaved changes?

[hybrid spindle]

It seems I was impatient....its a slow loader I guess.

[zenith epoch]

He asked for looping so technically it's not ui

[digital rose]

No idea why it is wrong to post it here, i thought tkinter was UI ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[zenith epoch]

Tkinter is but he wanted help with looping not tkinter, and If he want to he can ask idc

[tawdry mulch]

hey if u made this on ur own, its awesome and fire. Continue making this🔥🔥

[zenith epoch]

Some of it is inspired but yeah did all functions on my own

[tawdry mulch]

That is nice, which tutorial? how long have you been working on pyqt? @zenith epoch

[tawdry mulch]

I would recommend to reduce the speed down to like 500 ms

[eager beacon]

For something small/not very complex like that you could use QPainter and just create some widgets and move them into place for the inputs @tawdry mulch

its probably around 100 lines

[tawdry mulch]

after() guarantees that it will not call the function BEFORE 999 ms, but there is no guarantee that it will be called exactly at 999, it can be 1000, 1001, 1005, depending upon system and the events to process. @rough isle

[tawdry mulch]

Oh that is nice, ill take a look then

[eager beacon]

Do you know how to use QPainter?

[tawdry mulch]

Nope

I jus somehow got Qtcreator to get installed

[hybrid spindle]

Is there some special treatment of key events in interactive pyplots within a tkinter program?

It keeps saying my event functions are not defined

[tawdry mulch]

not working but got Qt design studio to work @eager beacon

[tawdry mulch]

can ya show code?

[tawdry mulch]

If that is simple....wat is complex 🤯🤯

[eager beacon]

I just mean it doesn't have a ton of functionality.. Its all of 2 lineEdits and a pushButton for the user to interact with

give me a few minutes and I'll send you an example

[hybrid spindle]

class StartPage(tk.Frame): # start Page can be first 6 images; second page for spillover
    def __init__(self,parent, controller):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self,parent)
        label = tk.Label(self,text = "File Path", font = LARGE_FONT)
        label.pack(pady=10,padx=10)
        
        def load_dat():
            
            def onclick(self,event):
                toolbar = plt.get_current_fig_manager().toolbar
                if event.button==1 and toolbar.mode=='':
                    window = ((event.xdata-2.5)<=self.wave) & (self.wave<=(event.xdata+2.5))
                    y = np.median(self.flux[window])
                    plt.plot(event.xdata,y,'ro',ms=5,pickradius=5,label='cont_pnt',markeredgecolor='k')
                plt.draw()
            
            filepath = datapath_txt.get(1.0,"end-1c")
            data = Load(filepath)
            if len(data.lines) < 7:
                newWindow = tk.Toplevel(app)
                f = Figure(figsize=(15,8),dpi=100)
                for ii in range(len(data.lines)):
                    self.axesL[ii] = f.add_subplot(6,2,2*ii+1)
                    self.axesR[ii] = f.add_subplot(6,2,2*(ii+1))
                    ##Plot Stuff##

                f.subplots_adjust(left=0.05,right=0.95,top=.95,bottom=0.05,hspace=.2)
                canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(f,self)
                canvas.draw()
                canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=True)
                toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas,self)
                toolbar.update()
                canvas._tkcanvas.pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=True) 
                #canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event',lambda event: canvas._tkcanvas.focus_set())

        datapath_txt = tk.Text(self,height=3,width=30)
        datapath_txt.pack()
        pulldat = tk.Button(self,text='Use Path',command=load_dat)#load_dat(parent,controller))
        pulldat.pack()

[tawdry mulch]

What is this event is it a tkinter generated event? @hybrid spindle

[tawdry mulch]

sure

[eager beacon]

This should give you a good idea about how you can make a UI like that. https://paste.pythondiscord.com/uhudojoses.py

[hybrid spindle]

so on left columns, I want to click within the figures to create a list of x and y data that can be used to produce a better polyfit.

[tawdry mulch]

I am not sure abt how matplotlib handles tkinter events, hav u tried searcing

[eager beacon]

You might be better off asking about something like that in a help channel

[hybrid spindle]

indeed, unfortunately no luck so far.

[eager beacon]

Did you get it to work? @tawdry mulch

[tawdry mulch]

Which?

[eager beacon]

This

[tawdry mulch]

Oh i did not notice that, just a min

[tawdry mulch]

Oooh that looks nice, the colors

[eager beacon]

There are a lot of presets in QGradient from https://webgradients.com/

[tawdry mulch]

Damn okay, ill take a look 😄

@eager beacon thanks!

BTW these coordinates 0, 0, 300, 400 that you used will be same in all screens? Like a different resolution?

Or will the positions change @eager beacon

[eager beacon]

0,0 is the internal coords of the TopLeft corner of Widget and 300/400 is the width and height of the rects inside the paintEvent in Widget() so the position will always remain in the same position. @tawdry mulch

The only way it could cause an issue is if you didn't resize Widget() to be large enough to contain the rects

[tawdry mulch]

Okay cool, thanks

[regal pulsar]

Anyone know why with Tkinter when i close my UI thingy it opens a new one?

then when i close the new one it just closes

[modern marsh]

1. How did you set a line under the input box? A line itself or some stylesheet tweaks?
2. What event did you use for the change of colour in the pushbutton?
3. How did you add the shadow beneath the button

Great work btw :)

[tawdry mulch]

can you share code

[regal pulsar]

import pyautogui as pyg
import keyboard
import tkinter as tk
from core import *

window = tk.Tk()

runningText = "Temp"

for i in range(3):
    window.rowconfigure(i, weight=1)
    window.columnconfigure(i, weight=1)

label1 = tk.Label(text="Start key",relief=tk.RAISED,borderwidth=5)
label2 = tk.Label(text="Stop key",relief=tk.RAISED,borderwidth=5)
label3 = tk.Label(text="Clicks per second",relief=tk.RAISED,borderwidth=5)
label4 = tk.Label(text=runningText,relief=tk.RAISED,borderwidth=5)

entry1 = tk.Entry()
entry2 = tk.Entry()
entry3 = tk.Entry()

button1 = tk.Button(relief=tk.RIDGE, borderwidth=5,text="Start listening for inputs")
button2 = tk.Button(relief=tk.RIDGE, borderwidth=5,text="Stop Listening for inputs")

label1.grid(row=0,column=0, padx=5,pady=5)
label2.grid(row=0,column=1, padx=5,pady=5)
label3.grid(row=0,column=2, padx=5,pady=5)
label4.grid(row=2,column=0)

entry1.grid(row=1,column=0,padx=5,pady=5)
entry2.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=5,pady=5)
entry3.grid(row=1,column=2,padx=5,pady=5)

button1.grid(row=2,column=1,padx=5,pady=5)
button2.grid(row=2,column=2,padx=5,pady=5)

window.mainloop()```

[tawdry mulch]

My first guess ~ core is causing issues. Share its code @regal pulsar

[regal pulsar]

it has nothing but comments currently

[tawdry mulch]

When you say from core import *, python runs that file once, so if there is a Tk(), inside that. It can cause issue

[regal pulsar]

Hmm

I'll check that out

[tawdry mulch]

I mean just remove from core import * and see

[regal pulsar]

ok

Odd that does fix it

thanks!

[tawdry mulch]

Explanation is here

[regal pulsar]

yeah

makes sense

[modern marsh]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/apagafetoc.rb

when i resize the window, the frame does not resize with it

does anyone know why this is happening

[zenith epoch]

I haven't tried yet lel

[zenith epoch]

Stylesheets, pressed property, Pyqt5 graphic property

[modern marsh]

ooooh

use pyinstaller or nuitka

[zenith epoch]

I will definitely let you guys know about the release, and if you need help making your layout, I would be more than happy to help you

[digital rose]

I see python is not the the most probable choice for making desktop apps. What could be the reason for this? and what language / framework is most chosen for making desktop apps for production? i heard electron was popular, though.

[rugged marsh]

Hi i have a question with my code:
so this is my default optionbox, where the options are called currencies1:

"USD - US Dollar",
"EUR - Euro",
"JPY - Japanese Yen",
"GBP - Pound Sterling",
"AUD - Australian Dollar ",
"CAD - Canadian Dollar",
"CHF - Swiss Franc",
"CNY - Renminbi (Chinese Yuan)",
"HKD - Hong Kong Dollar",
"NZD - New Zealand Dollar",
"SEK - Swedish Krona",
"KRW - South Korean Won",
"SGD - Singapore Dollar",
"NOK - Norwegian Krone",
"MXN - Mexican Peso",
"INR - Indian Rupee",
"RUB - Russian Ruble",
"ZAR - South African Rand",
"TRY - Turkish Lira",
"BRL - Brazilian Real"

and i want that if i press a button, the option turns into this:

        
        "USD - 美元",
        "EUR - 歐元",
        "JPY - 日元",
        "GBP - 英鎊",
        "AUD - 澳大利亞元",
        "CAD - 加拿大元",
        "CHF - 瑞士法郎",
        "CNY - 人民幣",
        "HKD - 港元",
        "NZD - 新西蘭元",
        "SEK - 瑞典克朗",
        "KRW - 韓元",
        "SGD - 新加坡元",
        "NOK - 挪威克朗",
        "MXN - 墨西哥比索",
        "INR - 印度盧比",
        "RUB - 俄羅斯盧布",
        "ZAR - 南非蘭特",
        "TRY - 土耳其里拉",
        "BRL - 巴西雷亞爾",

I'm doing this on tkinter. how can i acheive this?

[modern marsh]

flutter is neat

[digital rose]

isnt it a google product?

[modern marsh]

yes

we should go to #ot2-never-nester’s-nightmare

[rugged marsh]

@digital rose can u help me pls

[digital rose]

in what?

[rugged marsh]

this

@digital rose

def save_command():
   if langOpt.get() == "Chinese":
       OPTIONS = [
        "USD - 美元",
        "EUR - 歐元",
        "JPY - 日元",
        "GBP - 英鎊",
        "AUD - 澳大利亞元",
        "CAD - 加拿大元",
        "CHF - 瑞士法郎",
        "CNY - 人民幣",
        "HKD - 港元",
        "NZD - 新西蘭元",
        "SEK - 瑞典克朗",
        "KRW - 韓元",
        "SGD - 新加坡元",
        "NOK - 挪威克朗",
        "MXN - 墨西哥比索",
        "INR - 印度盧比",
        "RUB - 俄羅斯盧布",
        "ZAR - 南非蘭特",
        "TRY - 土耳其里拉",
        "BRL - 巴西雷亞爾",
        ] #etc
currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default valu
w = OptionMenu(my_frame1, currencies1, *OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("San Francisco", 25), width=25)
w.grid(row=1, column=0)
        
saveChangesButton = Button(my_frame2, text="Save", command=save_command, bg='#000080')
saveChangesButton.grid(row=2,column=1)

[digital rose]

you can use .config() to update the text, as usual.

[rugged marsh]

OPTIONS = [
"USD - US Dollar",
"EUR - Euro",
"JPY - Japanese Yen",
"GBP - Pound Sterling",
"AUD - Australian Dollar ",
"CAD - Canadian Dollar",
"CHF - Swiss Franc",
"CNY - Renminbi (Chinese Yuan)",
"HKD - Hong Kong Dollar",
"NZD - New Zealand Dollar",
"SEK - Swedish Krona",
"KRW - South Korean Won",
"SGD - Singapore Dollar",
"NOK - Norwegian Krone",
"MXN - Mexican Peso",
"INR - Indian Rupee",
"RUB - Russian Ruble",
"ZAR - South African Rand",
"TRY - Turkish Lira",
"BRL - Brazilian Real",
] #etc

currencies1 = StringVar(root)
currencies1.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(my_frame1, currencies1, *OPTIONS)
w.config(font=("San Francisco", 25), width=25)
w.grid(row=1, column=0)

i wanna update the whole options

like changing languages

[digital rose]

i dont really get you :/

[rugged marsh]

originally the options are in english

when i press the save button, they become chinese

[digital rose]

ah.

!paste

[rugged marsh]

should i put there?

[digital rose]

yes, so that i get to know what variables are used for what purpose.

[rugged marsh]

imma put my whole code

!p

[proven basin]

Missing required argument

pep_number

Command Help

!pep <pep_number>
Can also use: get_pep, p

Fetches information about a PEP and sends it to the channel.

[rugged marsh]

!past

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/dapoxukuvo.csharp

[digital rose]

where do you want the text to be in chinese?

i mean which widget.

@rugged marsh

its quite strange to see you have declared two OptionMenu widgets with the same name w and over 4 times. Name them something different, so that you can access them to change their text later on, in the command.

[rugged marsh]

Currencies1 and currencies2

At the moment

[digital rose]

you can change the text of a StringVar instance by :
var.set(value).

[rugged marsh]

Wdym

Idk

[digital rose]

i see currencies1 and currencies2 are StingVars

[rugged marsh]

Yes

how can i acheive this?

[digital rose]

you want currencies1 to have the value of this table?

[rugged marsh]

yes

when i press the button

[digital rose]

ah. i see a second OptionMenu, so im assuming you want the table that is first shown to become:

        
        "USD - 美元",
        "EUR - 歐元",
        "JPY - 日元",
        "GBP - 英鎊",
        "AUD - 澳大利亞元",
        "CAD - 加拿大元",
        "CHF - 瑞士法郎",
        "CNY - 人民幣",
        "HKD - 港元",
        "NZD - 新西蘭元",
        "SEK - 瑞典克朗",
        "KRW - 韓元",
        "SGD - 新加坡元",
        "NOK - 挪威克朗",
        "MXN - 墨西哥比索",
        "INR - 印度盧比",
        "RUB - 俄羅斯盧布",
        "ZAR - 南非蘭特",
        "TRY - 土耳其里拉",
        "BRL - 巴西雷亞爾",

from:

"USD - US Dollar",
"EUR - Euro",
"JPY - Japanese Yen",
"GBP - Pound Sterling",
"AUD - Australian Dollar ",
"CAD - Canadian Dollar",
"CHF - Swiss Franc",
"CNY - Renminbi (Chinese Yuan)",
"HKD - Hong Kong Dollar",
"NZD - New Zealand Dollar",
"SEK - Swedish Krona",
"KRW - South Korean Won",
"SGD - Singapore Dollar",
"NOK - Norwegian Krone",
"MXN - Mexican Peso",
"INR - Indian Rupee",
"RUB - Russian Ruble",
"ZAR - South African Rand",
"TRY - Turkish Lira",
"BRL - Brazilian Real"
```?

basically change the table written in english to the chinese version you showed?

@rugged marsh

you can do that by using .config() to change the values in an OptionMenu widget.

[modern marsh]

what exactly is pyqt5 graphic property

do you have a link?

[rugged marsh]

exactly!

[rugged marsh]

how?

[digital rose]

ah, look at this example on how to change the values of an OptionMenu:

from tkinter import *

class MainWindow(Tk):
   def __init__(self, ):
      Tk.__init__(self, )

      self.choices1 = ['Option1', 'Option2']
      self.choices2 = ['Option3', 'Option4']

      self.draw_widgets()

   def switch(self):
      self.w['menu'].delete(0, 'end')
      self.string_var.set(self.choices2[0])
      
      for i in self.choices2:
         self.w['menu'].add_command(label = i, command=lambda:None)

   def draw_widgets(self):
      self.string_var = StringVar(self)
      self.string_var.set(self.choices1[0])
      
      self.w = OptionMenu(self, self.string_var, *self.choices1)
      self.w.grid(row = 0, column = 0)

      self.change = Button(self, text = 'Change', command=self.switch)
      self.change.grid(row=2, column = 0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   root = MainWindow()
   root.mainloop()

@rugged marsh

basically making use of the add_command function to add a value, and using .delete() and passing in the indices to delete the contents of the OptionMenu and then inserting the new values.

[rugged marsh]

Ty

Will see

[modern marsh]

i got the pressed part, not the shadow one

how do i set stylesheets easily?

[rugged marsh]

@digital rose

in tkinter

can i make specific words grey in option box

[digital rose]

Which words? The options in the option menu?

[rugged marsh]

e.g. USD - US dollar, USD=black; -US dollar=grey

[plush stream]

heyo so i just made this context menu in pyside2. is there any way to make the context menu have rounded edges?

[rapid galleon]

is there any good libraries for nicer UI in terminal?

[tawdry mulch]

electron is famous, python is not jus used for app development. Though there are libraries that can help in the production

[modern marsh]

how did you make that scrolling view for all the songs?

[plush stream]

It's a qtablewidget! :)

[modern marsh]

and how did you get that acrylic look to the context menu

[modern marsh]

ah niceee

can you drag and drop each row up and down?

[plush stream]

No, not really. Maybe you could but i didn't implement it

[tawdry mulch]

i think that is os dependent

[modern marsh]

hmm yeah but how do you even get it?

win32 thing?

[plush stream]

Yes

[modern marsh]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31626601/qt-set-stylesheet-for-a-qmenu-object

[plush stream]

I made a repo specifically for that effect
https://github.com/negated-py/qtacrylic

[tawdry mulch]

is translucent windows possible with qt? like blurry bg @modern marsh

[modern marsh]

oooh

uhh idk, never tried

[tawdry mulch]

noice, its not possible in tkinter, i dont think it is possible in qt either. But that seems far fetched since almost everything is possible with qt

[plush stream]

Yes it's just Translucent qmenu

Oops replied to the wrong message there

[tawdry mulch]

it looks neat

[plush stream]

But yeah it's essentially a Translucent qmenu with acrylic over it

[tawdry mulch]

Nice, looks dope

[plush stream]

Thanks

[plush stream]

I'm aware that i can use qss to modify the look of widgets in qt but i don't know how to make qmenu have rounded edges

[modern marsh]

hmm

did you try the

border-radius attribute

i love the acrylic but my app is supposed to be crossplatform

guess i gotta make some settings stuff

[plush stream]

You could always write a fallback option for your program so that the acrylic only enabled if the app is running on windows machine

[modern marsh]

yeah thats what imma do

thanks :D

[modern marsh]

try this

how do you guys make separate pages for a UI

do you use different frames or something else?

[plush stream]

I am. Just booting up my pc

[modern marsh]

aight

[plush stream]

Didn't do anything

[modern marsh]

how much did you set it to

border-radius: 10px; would be nice ig

[plush stream]

25px

[modern marsh]

o

hmm

[ivory ember]

I use QTabWidget

[modern marsh]

ah

[rugged marsh]

@digital rose u online?

idk how to replace the eng options with chinese :(

i tried (kinda) ur method

but i dont rly get it

ty

[digital rose]

Show me the updated code.

Maybe your implementation is wrong.

[zenith epoch]

def close(self, Form):
                self.close()
self.pushButton_2.clicked.connect(close)```

i have this and getting error

TypeError: close() missing 1 required positional argument: 'Form'

my class:

class Ui_Form(QtWidgets.QWidget, object):```

[digital rose]

can someone help me with tkinter please? i want to do ```py
async def ip(ctx,ip):

this but in tkinter

[modern marsh]

you called close

without any arguments

[zenith epoch]

so how can call a argument for a pushButton that if it is clicked the whole ui close

[modern marsh]

self.pushButton_2.clicked.connect(lambda: [self.destroy(), sys.exit()])

close might work too, never tried it

[zenith epoch]

@modern marsh bro thanks alot i have been struggling with this for hours

[modern marsh]

np

[zenith epoch]

@modern marsh any way to only close the widget not the whole program

?

[modern marsh]

instead of self, put the widget name

and remove the sys.exit()

[zenith epoch]

ok

@modern marsh sorry to bother you again, but now when i exit the main application the widget doesnt let the program to end

[modern marsh]

eh?

i dont understand

[zenith epoch]

in terminal its still running

just cant see the widget

[tawdry mulch]

is this usable with tkinter? Somehow? The widget propery? I am guessing no, but some wild way?

[modern marsh]

idts

[modern marsh]

send code

[zenith epoch]

nvm i changed something and now it closes completely, thanks for all your help

[modern marsh]

np

[zenith epoch]

here is quick showcase of what i made

[tawdry mulch]

The UI looks nice, you need to start working on fonts

[zenith epoch]

yes i am first gonna finish up the UI

[modern marsh]

nice

[zenith epoch]

lel

i earlier used to think that we cant do much with python xD

[tawdry mulch]

Well, its all in PyQt

not just that, i am pretty sure if you try hard, something like this is possible with tkinter too

not PERFECT, but something similar

[zenith epoch]

you cant make framelesswindows with tkinter i think

[modern marsh]

no

[zenith epoch]

but yeah its in pyqt5, althought i worked my ass off to make things work correctly

[modern marsh]

you used designer?

[zenith epoch]

only for login screen

[modern marsh]

alright

[zenith epoch]

i am not very familiar with programming yet so had to use it

i know js well enough for discord bots now tho

[tawdry mulch]

actaully you can

root.overrideredict(1)

[zenith epoch]

noice then

[tawdry mulch]

But, you lose all the controls. The entire taskbar and icons and so on

[modern marsh]

same in Qt too

[zenith epoch]

i am gonna make custom controls ez

[plush stream]

I'm not sure. I rarely use tkinter but i think you could get it work if you can make the tkinter window translucent and somehow get the winId from it.

[zenith epoch]

which is the most powerful gui in python?

[modern marsh]

Qt

[zenith epoch]

hmm

[modern marsh]

well, for web apps there is eel, pywebview

for android, kivy

[zenith epoch]

theres something called pyside6 and kivy

yeh

kivy

[modern marsh]

pyside is qt lol

[zenith epoch]

xd

well yeah they all are made in designer or creator

[modern marsh]

creator?

hmm

thats qml right

[zenith epoch]

editor

[modern marsh]

why are you mixing both

[zenith epoch]

i mistook

fuck

one is designer and one is creator

[tawdry mulch]

tkinter windows cant be made translucent. Well you can make the whole window transparent, but that does not suffice anything here Ig,

[zenith epoch]

well most of the programs are made in qt if we talk about C++ and python

[tawdry mulch]

Well big apps shouldnt be made in python strictly speaking

[zenith epoch]

yea i know

[plush stream]

Yeah well as i said I'm not to familiar with tkinter so, sorry i couldn't help you any further

[zenith epoch]

but i have to make this program in python even tho it can get big, cuz i have to stick to my school project guidelines

[plush stream]

pfft y'all make guis from qt or other framework? try to make gui from pure opengl and i guarantee you it's fun

[zenith epoch]

i dont have time for that xd, i get those marks now

[digital rose]

Which language does OpenGL use?

[plush stream]

OpenGL runs natively on cpp and c. Though there's a python binding for OpenGL if you want to try it.

[plush stream]

And this is a joke btw dont try to write a gui from scratch using opengl

[digital rose]

lol thanks for clarifying

I make a gui for my project with WXPython rn, I'm just started learning gui and just chose wx because it looks nice

[plush stream]

Oh and btw qt qml uses OpenGL so technically you've written a gui using OpenGL if you use qml

And that's one of the reason why qml guis usually looks way better than classic qt but then again it's more complex to write

[modern marsh]

no

its easy

[zenith epoch]

i can do opengl in qt using opengl widget

[tawdry mulch]

That means i use OPENGL, huraay

[coarse mirage]

In PyQt5, I'm trying to change the border-image of a button when pressed.
However, it isn't working when I code it.

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

class Main_Window (QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.title = "Dice Game"
        self.left = 10
        self.top = 30
        self.width = 420
        self.height = 540
        self.label = QLabel(self)
        self.button_1()
        self.mw_attributes() 
        
    def mw_attributes(self):
        self.setWindowTitle(self.title)
        self.setGeometry(self.left,self.top,self.width,self.height)
        self.pixmap = QPixmap("C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivc.png")
        self.label.setPixmap(self.pixmap)
        self.label.resize(self.pixmap.width(),self.pixmap.height())
        self.show()
        
    def button_1(self):
        pybutton = QPushButton(self)
        pybutton.resize(113,53)
        pybutton.move(160, 480)
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("background:transparent;")
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("border-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbutton.png);")  
        pybutton.clicked.connect(self.clickme) 

        
    def clickme(self):
        self.setStyleSheet("border-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbuttonpressed1.png);")
              
          
app = QApplication(sys.argv) #Creates the app
ex = Main_Window() #Creates the instance of the main window
sys.exit (app.exec_()) #Starts the app```

Here's what the output looks like so far, but the button doesn't change when pushed:

[unique forge]

why are you setting an image to the border?

could you send the images

[coarse mirage]

Because when I set it to the background it doesn't look correct.

It actually does work when setting it to a background image first though:

But setting it as a background image has it look like a "sticker" rather than a custom button.

[proven basin]

Hey @coarse mirage!

It looks like you tried to attach file type(s) that we do not allow (.kra). We currently allow the following file types: .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .png, .mp3, .wav, .ogg, .webm, .webp, .flac, .m4a.

Feel free to ask in #community-meta if you think this is a mistake.

[coarse mirage]

Window background

Button (standard)

button pressed

I just realized that once the button is "unpressed" I'd like it to go back to standard.

This is mainly due to the button looking "strange" when it is set to background image.

[unique forge]

why are you using border-imag though

if you want to change the background

[coarse mirage]

Because using background-image has it look strange. Like it's just a sticker. I want the button.png to essentially look like a custom button.

[unique forge]

you could use background-color

[coarse mirage]

Looks like this:

Just a white button

[unique forge]

you probably did it wron

g

[coarse mirage]

    def button_1(self):
        pybutton = QPushButton(self)
        pybutton.resize(113,53)
        pybutton.move(160, 480)
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("background:transparent;")
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("background-color : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbutton.png);")  
        pybutton.clicked.connect(self.clickme) ```

[digital rose]

you might be able to do pressed/released with it perhaps?

[unique forge]

🤦‍♂️

background-color is for rgb colours

not images

[coarse mirage]

Yeah, but I need the image uploaded to replace the default button.

[unique forge]

is the image a plain colour?

[coarse mirage]

Yes. But I'd like to also know how to do it in case it wasn't.

[unique forge]

background-image is the only good way to do it

border-image does not set an image for the whole button

[coarse mirage]

Ok now I have this:

        pybutton = QPushButton(self)
        pybutton.resize(113,53)
        pybutton.move(160, 480)
        
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("background:transparent;""background-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbutton.png);")  
        pybutton.clicked.connect(self.clickme) 

        
    def clickme(self):
        self.setStyleSheet("background-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbuttonpressed1.png);")```

[unique forge]

yep

thats correct

[coarse mirage]

Better effect. But it still doesn't "press" nor does it change the image pressed.

[unique forge]

anyway

now you should nto use image

and instead of background-color

[coarse mirage]

Not sure I follow.

[unique forge]

your image is a plain colour

[digital rose]

Question, is the "self.setstylesheet" in clickme setting the style sheet for the entire thing, or just the button?

[coarse mirage]

This gets things working but not only does the image not go back to it's "unpressed" state, but that's not the correct code.

[unique forge]

use background-color instead with a rgb color equivalent

[unique forge]

do you want it to change colour only on hover?

instead of press

[coarse mirage]

        pybutton = QPushButton(self)
        pybutton.resize(113,53)
        pybutton.move(160, 480)
        
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("background:transparent;""background-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbutton.png);")  
        pybutton.clicked.connect(self.clickme) 

        
    def clickme(self):
        self.setStyleSheet("border-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbuttonpressed1.png);")
              ```

`border-image` is wrong I know.

[coarse mirage]

Ideally I want press.

The color change was to just make it obvious that the image changed to me.

[unique forge]

well I have to go now

hope you figure out your problem

[coarse mirage]

Would it be okay if I contacted you later?

I can understand if you don't want me to.

Don't want to be an inconvience.

I managed to do it. Though in a bit of an odd way.

        pybutton = QPushButton(self)
        pybutton.resize(113,53)
        pybutton.move(160, 480)
        
        pybutton.setStyleSheet("QPushButton""{""background:transparent;""background-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbutton.png);""}""QPushButton:pressed""{""background:transparent;""border-image : url(C:/Users/nomar/Dropbox/Blueprints/ivcbuttonpressed.png);""}")   

[unique forge]

yes, please do contact me later

[sharp stone]

please help if you know kivy:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67391902/how-to-update-label-text-in-kv-using-properties-in-py

[unique forge]

use ids

[spark prism]

should I use JS CSS OR HTML for user interfaces???? (or anything else)

[pseudo gazelle]

all 3 together

[spark prism]

how would I do that tho