kkpyui

kkpyui

Tkinter-based GUI widget library for building small tool applications

Motivation

• Small GUI tools come in handy in experiments and ad-hoc productivity boosts

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

• Python is my go-to dev language. 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Tkinter (with its ttk ) in theory is well-suited for small tool development, but it is often criticized for being outdated and too clunky to use; however, it remains attractive for distribution convenience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 improve the dev experience of Tkinter for developing small tools. The approach is to create a thin wrapper and iron flat some cross-platform glitches, hoping to reduce boilerplates in appplication code

Features

• A set of building blocks for creating single-page form UI, with built-in data-binding

• Model-View-Controller architecture

• Per-entry validation, default value, reset, tracer, and help doc

• Saving and loading all form entries as presets

Demo

cd /path/to/kkpyui
poetry install

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

# run controller demo, requireing Csound to be installed and in PATH
poetry run python demo/controller.py