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Tkinter Designer: Quickly Turn Figma Design to Python Tkinter GUI
- samwillis 3y agoNeat! I can see this being a useful way to build quick demos from a Figma design, not sure I would use it for proper apps though. If I follow correctly, it's building the whole UI from images from the Figma file, so isn't using any native OS styling. Thats fine for demos and some simple apps. It would be interesting if it was possible to combine this with BeeWhare [0] for mobile UIs, mobile is much more forgiving with none native style. I wander if it could be modified to output BeeWhare/Toga code. 0: https://beeware.org https://beeware.org
- iorrus 3y agoI find chatgpt good for this kind of simple GUI design tasks, you can just tell it to create a simple GUI incl drop downs etc. It won’t be perfect but removes a lot of the tedious work.
- ptx 3y agoHow do you maintain the generated code? Once you make changes to it, you can't regenerate it without losing the changes.
- iorrus 3y agoI just use it to create the initial layout and then if I need anything additional I just ask chatgpt to create it. You still have to know what you’re doing but I find that GUI code is mostly boilerplate code that is really tedious to create from scratch. ChatGPT is a 5x productivity boost.
- objektif 3y agoHow do you describe the overall layout to Chatgpt? individual components sounds simple.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoHow does it compare to using code assistants AIs? I have used chatgpt a bit for coding tasks, and it is alright. Kind of like getting a not that smart student to do something, and repeatedly prodding them to do it right.
- wayvey 3y agoPretty impressive. I've never very much liked how TKinter looks out of the box and i didn't know it's capable custom UI visuals as in the examples. If tkinter looked like the OS native UI it would be optimal, but in my experience it mostly doesn't. Will be following this project for my future GUI needs in Python. Nice work!
- asicsp 3y agoSee also https://github.com/rdbende/Sun-Valley-ttk-theme https://github.com/rdbende/Sun-Valley-ttk-theme (couple more themes are linked at the end of readme)
- formerly_proven 3y agoTkinter looks native on platforms that have native GUIs (Windows, macOS). On Unix you can use any of the numerous platform-independent (non-native) skins for Ttk: - https://ttkbootstrap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#sample-themes https://ttkbootstrap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#sample-themes - https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/List+of+ttk+Themes#60ca3eb80eb25a68ec0147abcac5badb44ba1e94ce1e9dc3c826be33887f9b70 https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/List+of+ttk+Themes#60ca3eb80e... - https://ttkthemes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/themes.html https://ttkthemes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/themes.html The main issue with Tk/Ttk is mostly documentation and of course that it's a classic GUI framework, not a 3D-GPU-layer-based framework suitable for highly animated and composited UIs. There's a bunch of stuff that you really wanna know about but simply isn't included in the Python docs, and the real API docs are for Tcl and you need to understand how those tclisms map over to Python.
- mhitza 3y ago> The main issue with Tk/Ttk is mostly documentation and of course that it's a classic GUI framework, not a 3D-GPU-layer-based framework suitable for highly animated and composited UIs. That and accessibility.
- Kwpolska 3y agoHere’s IDLE’s settings window on Windows 11: https://i.imgur.com/DnwviOr.png https://i.imgur.com/DnwviOr.png Those combo boxes are definitely not native. The menus are also off (the menu items are shorter and they turn blue instead of gray when highlighted).
- hospitalJail 3y agoOur company made the switch to QT, dev time and code readability has improved, but the code runs significantly slower in debug mode. (Yes I know we can run headless) Sad because I learned so much tkinter, and despite that, I'm fine with moving away from tkinter. I'm not sure who the problem is.
- rubymamis 3y agoHave you tried QML? My efficiency improved dramatically since switching from C++ Qt for the UI.
- Renaud 3y agoDo you have to pay to license QML? Qt looks nice but license fees are pretty expensive for small shops. Could use the GPL version but I’m just afraid of becoming dependent on a tool that will keep the most interesting features only available for the commercial version.
- hospitalJail 3y agoWe use GPL version, but its internal software that isnt distributed outside.
- rubymamis 3y agoNot at all! Qt comes with an LGPL version that you just must 1. link it dynamically and 2. If you change Qt's source code you need to publish the changes. (Not legal advice). Most of what you'll need will be under the LGPL version. You can use the commercial version by paying and not publishing your source or via the GPL license and publish your full source code and everything else GPL requires. I cannot recommend it more, give it a try it's easy to learn (I studied the basics in a day and a working prototype quite fast). Something I've been working on: converting Markdown text into a Kanban view (in QML).[1] [1] https://imgur.com/a/ht6Muh2 https://imgur.com/a/ht6Muh2
- Renaud 3y ago
- bilsbie 3y agoI’ve always thought there’s so much low hanging fruit in making simple interfaces easy to make. We’ve lost so much ground since vb6.
- lionkor 3y agoYoull be happy to hear Delphi is still alive and well, thanks to Embarcadero
- p_l 3y agoMore like in spite of Embarcadero... There's still Lazarus[1], and Common Lisp got CLOG [2] which is very much like Delphi except in the web and in Lisp [1] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ [2] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
- tecleandor 3y agoWell, my wallet's not that happy :D
- marcodiego 3y agohttps://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
- anonzzzies 3y agoYea, it is really amazingly nice to have this. People don’t like Pascal, even though it’s a nice, readable and very fast language. Compile time wise, modern languages are a joke, but not a funny one. I can compile a million lines of pascal faster than updating a hello world typescript site. I have been looking how to add a borrow checker to fps with minimal damage. It seems with compiler directives it can work. The compiler can tell you how many frees are not guaranteed.
- simpli 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491835
- shubhamgrg04 3y agoIt would be exciting to see future iterations of this tool incorporate native OS styling or even output to other GUI frameworks like QT or Toga.
- pzo 3y agoHaven’t tried but I think Qt Designer has already integration with Figma
- Hrun0 3y agoThe examples look horrible imho
- ironSkillet 3y agoThis would be a more productive comment if you could explain why you have this opinion.
- fladd 3y agoI suspect because they don't leverage the main advantage of a GUI toolkit: provide a coherent, familiar and proven user interface. These examples all look like websites and all have completely different styles. I can see how this fits into the current just-ship-a-webapp-plus-browser trend though.
- kristopolous 3y agoNot the parent but the world of tk/wish used to be associated with this motif widget set like so https://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/xmta1.jpg https://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/xmta1.jpg It had compactness, consistency, accessibility, multi language built in, composability, ability for the User to customize things like contrast and sizes, etc. Personally I was excited that maybe this would be a project that would get back to those sane foundations. Oh well, fuck that I guess
- Waterluvian 3y agoI've never seen License laid out in a table like this and I kinda love it: https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Tkinter-Designer#-license https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Tkinter-Designer#-license
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