guipi26 0.1.0a1

A fast custom-rendered Windows UI engine for Python with a Bootstrap-style shell. Early preview — APIs will change.

GUIpi26

Early preview (alpha). This is a proof of concept — expect breaking API changes between releases. Pin a specific version if you build on it.

A fast, custom-rendered Windows UI engine for Python. No Tkinter, no Qt — just ctypes over Win32 and GDI, with a small set of modern controls and a Bootstrap-style sidebar shell.

Windows only. Python 3.8+.

Install

pip install --pre guipi26

(--pre is required while GUIpi26 is in alpha. Plain pip install guipi26 will skip pre-releases.)

Hello, sidebar

from guipi26 import (
    create_window, set_theme, create_collapsible_nav_bar,
    create_label, create_card, create_nav_bar,
)

app = create_window("My App", 1200, 760)
set_theme(app, background="#f5f6f8", surface="#ffffff", accent="#0d6efd")

create_collapsible_nav_bar(
    app, "MyApp",
    [
        {"key": "home", "title": "Home", "subtitle": "Start here"},
        {"key": "stats", "title": "Stats", "subtitle": "Numbers"},
    ],
    width=240, collapsed_width=72, selected_key="home",
)

cx = app.content_origin_x(padding=32)

create_label(app, "Home", x=cx, y=32, width=420, height=40, style="title", tab="home")
create_nav_bar(app, "Today", x=cx, y=130, width=800, subtitle="A quick look.", tab="home")
create_card(app, "Sessions", "24", x=cx, y=200, width=240, height=110, subtitle="up 12%", accent="#0d6efd", tab="home")

create_label(app, "Stats", x=cx, y=32, width=420, height=40, style="title", tab="stats")

app.mainloop()

What's in the box

• create_window — the host window
• create_collapsible_nav_bar — full-height left sidebar with collapse toggle
• create_nav_bar — page header with title, subtitle, and action buttons
• create_label, create_button
• create_card, create_panel
• create_grid — simple data grid
• create_chart — bar chart
• create_horizontal_grid, create_vertical_grid — layout helpers
• set_theme — background, surface, accent, etc.

Tag any control with tab="key" to scope it to a sidebar entry. The shell only paints controls whose tag matches the active sidebar key (or controls with no tag).

Example

A full dashboard example lives in examples/dashboard.py:

python examples/dashboard.py

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Documentation

Full docs live in docs/:

• Getting started
• Components
• Layout & responsiveness
• Theming
• Card collision safety
• API reference
• Publishing