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Does anyone have experience with this? The goal to lower the entry bar for GUI development seems laudable to me, wonder where the solution stops to work, though

Does anyone have experience with this? The goal to lower the entry bar for GUI development seems laudable to me, wonder where the solution stops to work, though.

dilawar 3y ago
Not to answer your question but it brings back some nice memories. I was in college when author started this project. He worked a lot on it. After a few years, he stopped and archived the project. Looks like it's back again. Nice! I used it in all my college demo and small projects and I loved it. The most complex GUI that I made was a oscilloscope frontend for lab-made signal recorder. It is indeed a simplegui library.
- thastings 3y ago
  This is an awesome library. I've used it for multiple, mostly internal tools. The more complex one were a tool for cardiac action potential analysis and another for the evaluation of multiple choice tests. Complexity exploded over time, but that hinged on my coding skills, or lack thereof... PySimpleGUI did enable me to make GUI tools without getting my hands dirty outside my Python world, so kudos for that. Protip: the 'Reddit' theme looks way more modern compared to the other ones. Use that to get away from the 90s looks.
daedrdev 3y ago
It works quite well for small and medium sized programs, far better than I expected. The looping system is quite easy to use, and there is even a nice system for calling long functions without blocking the GUI. You can even use pyinstaller to make a fake application using it. I’d say it stops working so well if you want a ”modern” looking GUI, as the GUI looks pretty old. Also, the documentation is really good imo.
RaftPeople 3y ago
Yes it works, and my needs for GUI's are relatively simple so I haven't hit limits+issues. "Relatively simple"=Business app stuff like CRUD and also personal project+task mgmt tools. Before I landed on this one I spent significant time testing/prototyping PyQt and TkInter. Those tools required more effort than I was looking for (based on expectations from past environments and tools for business app dev). PySimpleGUI is quicker and easier than the other tools and is powerful enough for my needs.

Does anyone have experience with this? The goal to lower the entry bar for GUI development seems laudable to me, wonder where the solution stops to work, though.

dilawar 3y ago

Not to answer your question but it brings back some nice memories. I was in college when author started this project. He worked a lot on it. After a few years, he stopped and archived the project. Looks like it's back again. Nice! I used it in all my college demo and small projects and I loved it. The most complex GUI that I made was a oscilloscope frontend for lab-made signal recorder. It is indeed a simplegui library.

thastings 3y ago
This is an awesome library. I've used it for multiple, mostly internal tools. The more complex one were a tool for cardiac action potential analysis and another for the evaluation of multiple choice tests. Complexity exploded over time, but that hinged on my coding skills, or lack thereof... PySimpleGUI did enable me to make GUI tools without getting my hands dirty outside my Python world, so kudos for that. Protip: the 'Reddit' theme looks way more modern compared to the other ones. Use that to get away from the 90s looks.

daedrdev 3y ago

It works quite well for small and medium sized programs, far better than I expected. The looping system is quite easy to use, and there is even a nice system for calling long functions without blocking the GUI. You can even use pyinstaller to make a fake application using it. I’d say it stops working so well if you want a ”modern” looking GUI, as the GUI looks pretty old. Also, the documentation is really good imo.

RaftPeople 3y ago

Yes it works, and my needs for GUI's are relatively simple so I haven't hit limits+issues. "Relatively simple"=Business app stuff like CRUD and also personal project+task mgmt tools. Before I landed on this one I spent significant time testing/prototyping PyQt and TkInter. Those tools required more effort than I was looking for (based on expectations from past environments and tools for business app dev). PySimpleGUI is quicker and easier than the other tools and is powerful enough for my needs.