Skip to main content

Introduction

Sciter (https://sciter.com) is an embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine with GPU accelerated rendering for desktop application UI. It’s a compact, single dll/dylib/so file (4-8 mb), engine without any additional dependencies.

Sciter uses Direct2D GPU accelerated graphics on modern Windows versions and GDI+ on XP. On OS X, it uses standard CoreGraphics primitives, while the Linux version uses Cairo.

Sciter uses HTML5 set of elements, implements CSS level 2.1 in full, plus the most popular features of CSS level 3. It also contains custom CSS extensions that are required to support desktop UI cases. For example, flex units and various layout managers.

Check the screenshot gallery of the desktop UI examples.

Installation

For installation instructions and usage examples please refer to github project page.

Compatibility

PySciter requires Python 3.x.

Sciter works on:

  • Microsoft Windows XP and above (x86/x64)

  • macOS v 10.7 and above (64-bit)

  • Linux/GTK (GTK v 3.0 and above, 64-bit only)

  • Raspberry Pi

Feedback and getting involved

Release files for PySciter 0.6.9

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for PySciter 0.6.9
File Size Uploaded
PySciter-0.6.9.tar.gz 50.4 kB Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for PySciter 0.6.9
File Interpreter ABI Platform
PySciter-0.6.9-py3-none-any.whl Python 3 none any Details

Total release size: 103.2 kB

Release files / PySciter-0.6.9.tar.gz

Download URL PySciter-0.6.9.tar.gz
Size 50.4 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
2f4789120829f20068ec590ff35601679d052b49b34afeb56e44b50d0b2708bd
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
63463c8d56f586f652c04eed4bd02d592b74e893e4a9929ea4d279c38343acd8
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/3.4.1 importlib_metadata/3.7.3 pkginfo/1.7.0 requests/2.25.1 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.59.0 CPython/3.10.0

Release files / PySciter-0.6.9-py3-none-any.whl

Download URL PySciter-0.6.9-py3-none-any.whl
Size 52.8 kB
Tags Python 3
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
937d56e0110956042674eee8173f8fd4fc921ccc75753fb9c0cf9d7dd1413e3f
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
940ec944edf1b00143d65b9be7d20f375d4b9df76f28b8aff58ed69c66469417
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Uploaded via twine/3.4.1 importlib_metadata/3.7.3 pkginfo/1.7.0 requests/2.25.1 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.59.0 CPython/3.10.0

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This release

0.6.9 This release

2 release files

0.6.8

2 release files

0.6.7

2 release files

0.6.6

2 release files

0.6.5

2 release files

0.6.4

2 release files

0.6.3

2 release files

0.6.2

1 release file

0.6.1

1 release file

0.6.0

1 release file

0.5.2

1 release file

0.5.1

1 release file

0.5.0

1 release file

0.4.32

1 release file

0.4.31

1 release file

0.4.30

1 release file

0.4.29

1 release file

0.4.28

1 release file

0.4.27

1 release file

0.4.26

1 release file

0.4.25

1 release file

0.4.24

1 release file

0.4.23

1 release file

0.4.22

1 release file

0.4.21

1 release file

0.4.20

1 release file

0.4.19

1 release file

0.4.18

1 release file

0.4.17

1 release file

0.4.16

1 release file

0.4.15

1 release file

0.4.14

1 release file

0.4.13

1 release file

0.4.12

1 release file

0.4.11

1 release file

0.4.10

1 release file

0.4.6

1 release file

0.4.5

1 release file

0.4.4

1 release file

0.4.3

1 release file

0.4.2

1 release file

0.4.1

1 release file

0.4

1 release file

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page