I am making a Python gui project that needs to duplicate the look of a Windows gui environment (ie Explorer). I have my own custom icons to draw but they should be selectable by the same methods as usual; click, ctrl-click, drag box etc. Are any of the gui toolkits going to help with this or will I have to implement it all myself. If there aren't any tools to help with this advice would be greatly appreciated.
edit I am not trying to recreate explorer, that would be madness. I simply want to be able to take icons and lay them out in a scrollable window. Any number of them may be selected at once. It would be great if there was something that could select/deselect them in the same (appearing at least) way that Windows does. Then all I would need is a list of all the selected icons.
Python has extensions for accessing the Win32 API, but good luck trying to re-write explorer in that by yourself. Your best bet is to use a toolkit like Qt, but you'll still have to write the vast majority of the application from scratch.
Is there any way you can re-use explorer itself in your project?
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GTK+ has an icon grid widget that you could use. See a reference for PyGTK+: gtk.IconView
In wxPython there's a plethora of ready-made list and tree controls (CustomTreeCtrl, TreeListCtrl, and others), a mixture of which you can use to create a simple explorer in minutes. The wxPython demo even has a few relevant examples (see the demo of MVCTree).
I'll assume you're serious and suggest that you check out the many wonderful GUI libraries available for Python.
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I'm in a dilemma. I've got a python code that works for each of the yellow squares shown below but I want to make an application that looks like below and uses the information from the first text box and the second drag and drop box. Then depending on what the user clicked on, the code for that would run. I'm not sure how to approach this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You can use Python GUI libraries like:
Tkinter
PyQT
WxPython
Kivy
Pyglet
(This list is not exhaustive.)
Each has their own advantages and disadvantages. Choose the one that fits your project the best.
My personal recommendation for your particular project would be Kivy.
I'm using Qt Designer to create UI designs which I'm then converting into python code. Since I'm quite new to Qt I'd like to ask: is there a way I could implement a multi-screen application? I.e. having a next button clicked and getting a new set of options/widgets etc within the same window.
To be honest, I was developing using Kivy, and as slick as that is (especially with multiple screens) it depends on PyGame, which proves to be an enormous portability headache, so I had to switch to something else, and PyQt was the next feasible option (or so it seems).
It's called a QWizard. It is not called a multi screen application, but if you search for wizard instead, you find lots of information.
Links
Example with C++ code
[PyQt QWizard documentation] http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qwizard.html
I have been using pyqt and qt designer to make a program. I wanted to custom style the top bar which holds the icon and minimize,resize,close buttons. To do this I started with using the Qt.FramelessWindowHint and making custom buttons and such. This has led to many problems with grabbing corners to resize and also snapping (all the built in windows functions). I was trying to sort through this but found many people talking about the problems that I am having. I was trying to go for the google chrome/maya/photoshop look where the top part is completely customized. A friend pointed out that if any of these programs crash, you can notice the windows bar will show through, which means they are not actually removing it but styling above it or something of that sort. How can I go about doing this so all the functionality is still there but it is styled.
I'm trying to make a word processor type program in python. I'd like the user to be able to open a resizable image into the text area like in MS Word. I've looked into wxpython and tkinter. My understanding is that wxpython doesn't have a feature for images inside textboxes, and I'm not sure if tkinter has a way of letting the user resize the image. Is there a way for me to add this feature using one of the popular GUI toolkits?
Use PyQt. You can achieve lot of things through the highly capable library offered by them.
Another option is to use PyGTK.
Both toolkit also offer GUI building tools for ease of creation.
I'm a new in Python.
I would like to know can I create good interface on python, something like WPF?
I didn't find any glass effect with PyQt. It's really important for my decision.
Thanks.
I'm sorry that I didn't give a lot of details. I need to port WPF app to python. The main goal I still need a good UI. Can I make something like this
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SilverlightGlassOrbButton.aspx?msg=3170079
on python? Can I use different styles for mouseover and normal state?
Glass effect is probably a Qt skin and has nothing to do with Python in particular. People say that there's a tutorial for Qt skinning. I failed to quickly google a ready-made glass-like skin, though.
Also, in the new QT RC there is a new support system for GUI related stuff. QML it is called, and examples can be found here. I do not know if it alreade wrapped in PyQT but I suppose it is possible to use it in combination with PyQT.
If glass effect = transparency, then Qt supports this, but it requires a special flag set on the window. See http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qq/qq16-background.html for some examples.
If you want a blurred background, then I doubt it can be done as easily, since not many GUI-frameworks that Qt supports do compositing like Vista & Win7, so it's probably hard to abstract into a cross-platform toolkit.
But simpler things might be possible, and with QGraphicsScene, you can do a lot of these things yourself (but not w.r.t. the window's background, IIUC).
If you have no luck with Qt, wxPython can do it. See How to draw a transparent frame in wxpython.
You can check out the fluent app library