gui-utilities 1.8.0

Personal-use graphical utilities library

GUI Utilities

Personal-use graphical utilities library providing styled PyQt6 interaction, structured menus, robust input validation, formatting helpers, and Spanish-oriented user experience.

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Purpose

This library is designed for graphical applications that need:

• Clean UI
• Structured Spanish-language user interaction
• Robust validation
• Consistent formatting

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Requirements

Dependencies

Standard library modules are used where possible; only external dependencies are listed:

• PyQt6 (6.0.0 or higher)
• requests (2.25.0 or higher)

Python version

Python (3.9 or higher)

Operating System

Any of the following:

• Windows (10, version 1809 or higher)
• Linux (any modern distribution with glibc 2.34 or higher)
• MacOS (10.14 or higher)

Google Colaboratory support

Most of this library is not compatible with Google Colaboratory, since PyQt6 graphical windows cannot run in a headless environment. However, the following modules are fully compatible:

• Formatting Helpers (format): the entire module.
• Input Validation (validation): the entire module except "validate_email()".
• System Utilities (system): "get_resources_path()" only.

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Features

Core Utilities (core)

Foundational functions for window management and instance control:

• window(): creates a base window already configured with layout and initial styles.
• switch_instance(): dynamically switches the active window instance with a new one.
• clear_layout(): recursively clears and deletes all widgets within a layout.
• switch_content_widget(): dynamically switches the content of the main window's internal widget.

Structure Utilities (structure)

Tools for building UI elements and structures in graphical applications:

• menu(): creates interactive selection menus with header, scrolling, and custom buttons.
• header(): creates a styled header layout, consisting of a title and a separator.
• title(): creates customized titles for windows or menus.
• label(): creates customized text labels with rich HTML formatting options.
• button(): creates customized interactive buttons with hover and pressed styles.
• text_box(): creates customized text inputs with placeholder text and password visibility toggles.
• combo_box(): creates customized drop-down lists with rich text formatting.
• check_box(): creates customized checkboxes with styled indicators.
• table(): creates personalized tables with easy introduction of fully-styled columns and rows (with responsive resizing).

Dialogs Utilities (dialogs)

Pop-up and modal dialog management:

• information_message_box(): creates customized information dialog boxes.
• confirmation_message_box(): creates customized confirmation dialog boxes.
• confirm_exit(): creates a confirmation dialog that exits the program safely (uses confirmation_message_box()).

Input Validation (validation)

Interactive validation utilities using UI dialogs for user input:

• check_if_list_is_empty(): checks if a list is empty and displays an error dialog if it is.
• validate_option(): validates user selection from a list of options.
• validate_string(): ensures non-empty string input.
• validate_integer(): validates integers (uses Continental European numeric format) with optional range validation through an advanced syntax (syntax example: "(-infinity; 0] | 5 | [10; infinity)").
• validate_double(): validates decimal numbers (uses Continental European numeric format) with support for fractions and mathematical constants ("pi", "e", "tau", "phi") and optional range validation through an advanced syntax (syntax example: "(-infinity; 0,1] | 1/3 | [pi; infinity)").
• validate_date_time(): validates date and time input (uses Continental European date format with 24-hour time) with selectable year, time and second inclusion.
• validate_id(): validates Argentinian national ID numbers.
• validate_cellphone_number(): validates cellphone numbers (uses Argentinian format).
• validate_email(): validates e-mail addresses using an official TLDs list (from IANA's website) or syntax fallback (in case of not having an internet connection or a locally imported list of TLDs).

Formatting Helpers (format)

Utilities for applying consistent formatting:

• decimal_format(): applies Continental European numeric formatting.
• date_time_format(): formats datetime objects (uses Continental European date format with 24-hour time) with automatic or custom year, time and second inclusion.
• id_format(): formats Argentinian national ID numbers.
• cellphone_number_format(): formats cellphone numbers (uses Argentinian format).
• html_expression_format(): formats plain-text mathematical expressions (like fractions or superscripts) into HTML code for rich text rendering.
• convert_to_double(): converts string numbers (with Continental European format) into Python floats.
• define_equality_symbol(): returns the equality (=) or approximation (≅) symbol depending on if the number has rounding precision constraints.

System Utilities (system)

Helpers for interacting with the operating system graphical environment:

• get_responsive_width(): calculates a responsive width based on screen size to maintain an adaptive UI.
• get_resources_path(): returns the absolute path to a resource file, regardless of whether the program is running as a script in an IDE or as an executable.

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Installation

pip install gui_utilities

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Update

pip install -U gui_utilities