kkpyui 0.29.5

Tkinter-based GUI widget library for building small tool applications

kkpyui

Tkinter-based GUI widget library for building small tool applications

Motivation

• Small GUI tools come in handy in experiments and atomic productivity boosts

• Full-fledged GUI toolkits such as GTK or Qt and web-app frameworks are often too heavy for these purposes

• Python is my go-to dev language and its bundled Tkinter (with its ttk ) in theory is well-suited for small tool development, but it is often criticized for being outdated and too clunky to use; however, it remains attractive for distribution convenience

• This project thus aims to enhance Tkinter for developing small tools features by creating a thin wrapper, hoping to reduce boilerplates in app code

Features

• Single-page form UI building blocks with data-binding widgets

• Model-View-Controller architecture

• Input validation

• Per-entry default values

• Per-entry help doc

• Saving and loading presets

• Customizable parameter tracers

Demo

cd /path/to/kkpyui
poetry install

# run form demo
poetry run python demo/form.py

# run controller demo
poetry run python demo/controller.py