GUISpices 1.1.0

A wrapper module for various GUI usages

Weasel's GUI Spices

This is the one and only GUI module you really need...

Features

• Tray icons with custom sub-menus
• Windows Messages
• Qt Windows
• Windows Explorer extensions
• Borderless and draggable windows
• Easy custom CSS Styling

Tray Icons

This example creates a classic icon in the bottom right tray.

from PySide2.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMenu
from GUISpices import TrayIcon
import sys

# create main application (if not present)
app = QApplication([])
app.setQuitOnLastWindowClosed(False)

# configure basic tray actions
tray = TrayIcon(app, "examples/icon.png", "Test Program", click_action=lambda :print("Clicked"))
tray.add_menu_feature("Change Icon", lambda: tray.set_icon("examples/icon2.png"))
tray.add_menu_feature("Show a message from tray", lambda: tray.show_tray_message("Hello", "Hello my friend"))
tray.add_separator()
tray.add_menu_feature("Exit", app.exit)

# Include a custom sub-menu
menu_ = QMenu(title="Sub Menu")
menu_.addAction("Egg sit (sub-action)", lambda: sys.exit(0))
tray.add_menu(menu_)

sys.exit(app.exec_())

Windows Messages

This shows a tray icon and creates a windows tray message with a custom icon and action.

from PySide2.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMenu
from GUISpices import TrayIcon
import sys

# create main application (if not present)
app = QApplication([])
app.setQuitOnLastWindowClosed(False)

# configure basic tray
tray = TrayIcon(app, "examples/icon.png", "Test Program")

# Show message
tray.show_tray_message("Title","This is the message body",
                        icon="examples/icon.png",
                        on_click=lambda:print("Message clicked"))

sys.exit(app.exec_())

Qt Windows

The whole module lets you build all windows and popups with Qt Designer, a powerful and easy-to-use environment for drag & drop GUI building. This creates a .ui file which can be directly loaded to create the desired window with full compatibility.

from PySide2.QtWidgets import QApplication
from GUISpices import UIWindow
import sys

app = QApplication()
main_form = UIWindow('examples/wizard.ui', "examples/icon.png")
main_form.window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Windows Explorer extensions

This creates a new entry in the explorers context menu. So a right-click in any folder or on the user's desktop will show your custom action, as well. This example creates a custom action "Run CMD", which opens up a terminal.

from GUISpices import ExplorerContextManager
ExplorerContextManager.register_entry("Run CMD", "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe", "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe")