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Show HN: Pyrustic – Software suite for developing your next Python desktop app

30 points by alexrustic 6y ago

mraza007 6y ago
This is awesome
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Thank you ! I struggled a lot with Tkinter to let us not worry about small problems like this one: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2014-May/003622.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2014-May/0...
  - mraza007 6y ago
    Sure i really liked and I’m looking forward to build desktop apps using python
FloatArtifact 6y ago
Looks very interesting. A bit of feedback the website does not display well with mobile devices.
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Thanks you for this great feedback !
- alexrustic 6y ago
  About the mobile devices, I'll check that out. For the moment I will hope that people connect to it by computer.
auraham 6y ago
It seems awesome! In addition to the GUI, both the database editor and the test runner are great features for the command line.
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Thanks ! And yes, the command line still has a long way to go !
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Other features will be added, this is just the beginning.
alexrustic 6y ago
I want to clarify, the homemade widgets (megawidgets to be precise) Tree and Table are not superfluous in the project. There is indeed TreeView in Tkinter. It is legitimate to wonder why there is Tree when TreeView already exists. Let's do a little genealogy to get some context before answering. Well, Tkinter is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. In the face of the competition, Tk guys added a new set of widgets: the famous Tk themed widget (ttk). It was not just an increment like 1 + 1 = 2 but rather a new direction slightly different from the old one without loss of compatibility of course. This document is great to go deeper in the topic: https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/48.md https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/48.md
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Well, TreeView is part of ttk. I wanted total consistency across Pyrustic's components, so I decided to stay on the original tk widgets. Of course people still can use tkk, but Pyrustic Widgets don't use ttk at all. I also designed a nice to use theme/style system to convince users to follow my way and I find that the visual is not so bad, maybe even too charming ...
erezsh 6y ago
Looks cool. But why isn't it available through pip? Also, how is the support for windows? I couldn't find any mention of it. A last note, if I may, is to put more time into the github README.md. That's where I usually go to read all the important technical details.
- alexrustic 6y ago
  Thank you ! Yes you are right about the Readme, it will be updated soon. I have not yet tested under Windows, it will be done soon. Regarding pip, indeed it is to be done too. Thank you again for your contributions.

30 points by alexrustic 6y ago

mraza007 6y ago

This is awesome

alexrustic 6y ago
Thank you ! I struggled a lot with Tkinter to let us not worry about small problems like this one: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2014-May/003622.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2014-May/0...
- mraza007 6y ago
  Sure i really liked and I’m looking forward to build desktop apps using python

FloatArtifact 6y ago

Looks very interesting. A bit of feedback the website does not display well with mobile devices.

alexrustic 6y ago
Thanks you for this great feedback !
alexrustic 6y ago
About the mobile devices, I'll check that out. For the moment I will hope that people connect to it by computer.

auraham 6y ago

It seems awesome! In addition to the GUI, both the database editor and the test runner are great features for the command line.

alexrustic 6y ago
Thanks ! And yes, the command line still has a long way to go !
alexrustic 6y ago
Other features will be added, this is just the beginning.

alexrustic 6y ago

I want to clarify, the homemade widgets (megawidgets to be precise) Tree and Table are not superfluous in the project. There is indeed TreeView in Tkinter. It is legitimate to wonder why there is Tree when TreeView already exists. Let's do a little genealogy to get some context before answering. Well, Tkinter is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. In the face of the competition, Tk guys added a new set of widgets: the famous Tk themed widget (ttk). It was not just an increment like 1 + 1 = 2 but rather a new direction slightly different from the old one without loss of compatibility of course. This document is great to go deeper in the topic: https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/48.md https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/48.md

alexrustic 6y ago
Well, TreeView is part of ttk. I wanted total consistency across Pyrustic's components, so I decided to stay on the original tk widgets. Of course people still can use tkk, but Pyrustic Widgets don't use ttk at all. I also designed a nice to use theme/style system to convince users to follow my way and I find that the visual is not so bad, maybe even too charming ...

erezsh 6y ago

Looks cool. But why isn't it available through pip? Also, how is the support for windows? I couldn't find any mention of it. A last note, if I may, is to put more time into the github README.md. That's where I usually go to read all the important technical details.

alexrustic 6y ago
Thank you ! Yes you are right about the Readme, it will be updated soon. I have not yet tested under Windows, it will be done soon. Regarding pip, indeed it is to be done too. Thank you again for your contributions.