photongui 1.0.1

Build GUI in Python with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

PhotonGUI

photongui is a cross-platform tool that allows you to create Python programs with HTML, CSS, JS. You can use the web technologies in your desktop application.

photongui uses tkinter, so you have all its functionnaliy and power. photongui is available only for Python 3.

photongui is created by Muhammed Bassiouni.

Getting started

Install

pip install photongui

Example

import photongui

window_settings = {
    "title" : "PhotonGUI",
    "view" : "https://github.com/Mohamed501258/photongui"
}

photongui.createWindow(window_settings)

photongui.start()

More details

Window settings

photongui supports many window features:

• "title": window title
• "view": local html file OR url of website OR raw html in text format
• "icon": window icon > you pass the icon path and should be .png
• "width": window width
• "height": windo height
• "position": window position on the screen
• "resizable": allow window to be resizable or not
• "disabled": disable window
• "fullscreen": make window satart in fullscreen mode
• "minimized": make window start in minimized mode
• "maximized": make window start in maximized mode
• "min_size": setting the minimum window size
• "max_size": setting the maximum window size
• "hidden": start window in hidden mode
• "borderless": make window without borders "framless"
• "border_color": window border color
• "border_thickness": window border thickness
• "padding": window internal padding
• "toolwindow": to show or hide window maximize, minimze buttons and window icon
• "allow_minimize": allow window minimizing
• "allow_maximize": allow window maximizing
• "on_top": make window on top of all other windows
• "movable": make window movable or not
• "background_color": the window background color of the original tkinter window, my be useful during loading window view
• "transparency": set window transparency from 0 to 1
• "transparentcolor": set the transparency color
• "allow_text_selection": allow the user to select the text of the window content
• "flexible_drag": make easy drag of the window, this is helpful in the borderless window

you can make dictionary and set your settings like in the previous example

Run function right after the app launches

you can set function to run immediately after the app launches by passing the function name to start in photongui.start()

Example

import photongui 

window = photongui.createWindow()

def main():
	body_content = window.execJsSync("document.body.innerText")
    print(body_content)
    
photongui.start(function=main, debug=True)

you can pass arguments to the function using parameters in photongui.start(), You have to put your arguments inside list

Example

import photongui 

window = photongui.createWindow()

def main(text):
    body_content = window.execJsSync("document.body.innerText")
    print(body_content)
    
photongui.start(function=main, parameters=["This is text"], debug=True)

Access tkinter features of the window

to access all tkinter features of the window use window attribute

Example

import photongui 

window1 = photongui.createWindow()

def main():
    window1.window.title("This is new title")
    
photongui.start(function=main, debug=True)