SwiftGUI 0.9.6

An easy-to-use package for creating functional GUIs very quickly

SwiftGUI

A python-package to quickly create user-interfaces (GUIs).

I really liked PySimpleGUI (until they went "premium"), but once you work a lot with it, you'll notice the downsides of it more and more.

SwiftGUI can be used almost exactly like PySimpleGUI, but has a lot of additional features.
Also, not gonna lie, SwiftGUI's naming is different sometimes. enable_event is called default_event, makes more sense in my opinion.

There will be a lot of learning-material, including

• Written tutorials (see "getting started" below)
• Video tutorials (Planned for version 1.0.0)
• Application notes, which are short descriptions of actual applications
• The GitHub forum (discussions) for questions, which you can already use

Compatible with Python 3.10 and above

Has some minor optimizations when running in Python 3.12+.

Getting started / documentation

Start your journey here

The documentation now has its own repository.

Does your GUI look shitty?

import SwiftGUI as sg

Just call sg.Themes.FourColors.Emerald() before creating the layout.

This applies the Emerald-theme.

See which themes are available by calling sg.Examples.preview_all_themes().

30 different elements

(Version 0.9.0)

import SwiftGUI as sg

Call sg.Examples.preview_all_elements() for an overview over all the elements.

Alpha-phase!

I am already using SwiftGUI for smaller projects and personally, like it a lot so far.

However, until version 1.0.0, the package is not guaranteed to be fully downward-compatible. Names and functions/methods might change, which could mess up your code.

For version 1.0.0, I'll sort and standardize names, so they are easier to remember.

Don't worry too much though, I already tidied up a lot. Upcoming changes to existing code will probably be minor.

Legal disclaimer

I did not copy any code from the (once) popular Python-package PySimpleGUI.

Even though some of the concepts are simmilar, everything was written by me or a contributor. Element-names like Table and Input are common and not owned by PySimpleGUI. Even if they were, they got published a long time ago under a different license.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install SwiftGUI

Update to use the newest features and elements:

pip install SwiftGUI -U

Why SwiftGUI instead of PySimpleGUI?

First know that SwiftGUI can be used almost exactly like PySimpleGUI.
You won't have to learn everything starting from 0.
However, the naming-convention is different, but not difficult.

I have a lot of experience with PySimpleGUI, used it for years.
It is very useful, and offers good compatability on a lot of platforms.

Unfortunately, at a certain level of complexity, you'll hit a wall. All those simple features of PySimpleGUI are suddenly very messy. I give concrete examples in the readme of the documentation.

While developing SwiftGUI, I am already using it when I'd usually use PySimpleGUI. Let me tell you, it's sooooo much more pleasant than PySimpleGUI, even if it is still in alpha-phase.