Python GUI Development With PySimpleGUI

Creating a simple graphical user interface (GUI) that works across multiple platforms can be complicated. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can use Python and the PySimpleGUI package to create nice-looking user interfaces that you and your users will enjoy! PySimpleGUI is a new Python GUI library that has been gaining a lot of interest recently.
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[@simmonslucas]

This is a great library. Just finished a GUI based interoperability project for work with this library simply but powerful.

[@e630fnr]

PySimpleGUI...for the 567 time...sure after this video I talk in my sleep "PySimpleGUI"!

[@neilthomas5758]

Damn you!!!!! now that's all I can hear. lol.

[@shahidmahmood7252]

🤣

[@timon2167]

I guess it was PySimpleGUI 😂

[@leonardodavinci4259]

Forreal

[@MrBlazer3585]

What is it?....Monorail!.... Monorail! I mean PYSimpleGUI

[@christophernuzzi2780]

PySimpleGui rocks! I discovered it when I was trying to write a front end for an emulator. Not only was I able to do so in a ridiculously small amount of code, but by changing a single line of that code I was able to make it work for other emulators as well.

[@Flameandfireclan]

Thanks, this video made sure that I will never forget the name of this package next time I need to pip install.

[@alira7296]

Please leave all the URLs you refer to in the video description! It's so much more convenient that way - and of course it also links more people to your website ;)

[@training7574]

Very concise with lots of useful examples, step by step presented. Thanks.

[@yantheman1398]

Finally a clean simple solution for small projects and stuff, thank you so much!!!

[@KrastyoKrastev]

This was very helpful! Thank you!

[@UTJK.]

"Nice interface" is really a generous compliment, but... it seems to work well.

[@isidrodeleon673]

Like the girls, the easyest looks more beauty 😂

[@MrRahul15937]

You made it look so easy.

[@Nippon0taku]

The tutrorial is excellent!

[@SmashPhysical]

It works awesome, very easy to use!

[@darcipeeps]

I learned a whole lot in just 15 minutes

[@tylercoombs1]

I've been cobbling together a chat server using pure python and have found limitations with Tkinter. This library is a game changer, thanks so much!! I look forward to the next lesson

[@core36]

what limitations did you encounter?

[@mrmartinwatson1]

You might like pyqt designer

[@tylercoombs1]

@@mrmartinwatson1 Thanks for the tip Martin. Qt designer does look like a good option!

[@opus_X]

@@tylercoombs1 I also wonder what the limitations you found were, since I've only ever used tkinter thus far.

[@tylercoombs1]

@@opus_X Mainly stylizing, give a window a cleaner look

[@Doubleelforbes]

To offer a correction : The Window element "margin" is not how big the UI window will be in pixels, this is "size". "margin" is literally a margin inside the window (in pixels).

[@TotallyNotAuroras2ndChannel]

Thanks

[@vikasbanjare2254]

Very helpful video.... Thank you

[@merthyr1831]

Was so happy to find this package. Used it to automate my timesheets at work to save my brain numbing Jira shit

[@PaulMetalhero]

Nice, thanks!

[@brpawankumariyengar4227]

Great Video …. Thank you very much

[@Gabirell]

Wow, thanks!

[@timsmith1426]

What a great video, ty!

[@anthonywoods2550]

Thank you, Good Gui App.

[@carlosrangel4500]

Nice tutorial, thanks :)

[@munnaoraonminz6797]

Amazing user interface

[@Schaelpy]

not sure if amazing is the right word but definitely useful

[@fexofenadinaGenerica]

They are hideous

[@saulwarren9611]

Hi, can I install PySimpleGUI onto a pyboard and interact with the GUI with a touchscreen? i want to work on a project that involves creating an RC transmitter to control a RC device.

[@IverGameplays]

N O I I C E ! ! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@katrykonig2466]

Is there any IDE for UI, like Visual Studio for c#

[@joshb4220]

Is the next video on PySimpleGUI coming soon?

[@nasraldeneisa4172]

Very nice, thanks

[@philtoa334]

Nice.

[@dan.procopio]

how do i put a transparent word in the text box?

[@sinchrotron]

Oh cool! A video from 2003 :)

[@Axel_Andersen]

Visiuals like Java AWT from way back, architecture like WINAPI 32 and verbosity en par with Java except no support from IDE with all those magic strings...

[@tonyr0xx]

how to set a background image in layout ?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I had a quick look at the docs. Doesn’t seem to use asyncio. Pity.

[@Mofakk]

in your code you have no with " sg.Column(file_list_column), " but i do it says its not defined

[@chowcarrie9522]

Has no Sciter port, RustDesk uses Sciter, looks beatiful

[@drac8854]

It will be great if you can make a video on pywebview If possible flask included 😅 Thanks 🙂

[@JohannBaritono]

Would you like some Whiskey with your order too? Lol.

[@nasirasadov634]

Challenge: drink a shot every time he says PySimpleGUI

[@the_jcbone]

If only it would look like more like the respective GUI… especially on macOS, this stands out like a sore thumb.

[@hoagy_ytfc]

This is why cross-platform gui tools are no good except for quick noddy ad hoc tools.

[@beatricerelaxingmeditating1969]

Help my IMG.viewer did not work on the terminal. It gave me error

[@TotallyNotAuroras2ndChannel]

Is there a GUI like visual basic

[@brucedavidson646]

Wow - tkinter is ancient. I remember I didn't like it back in 1998. And PySide2 was 2 yeears late to Qt5 compatability compared to PyQt5. Many of the older PySide2 examples are for older Qt, and out of date. So, what is the actual advantage other than PySide2 allows you to write closed source code? Why should I use this and not keep using the more modern, more opensource friendly PyQt5?

[@sadf1416]

Probably because if you want to profit off of an app, you need to buy a PyQt license which costs over $550 dollars.

[@MohAmuza]

how to resize the image?

[@adityachoudhary4306]

how to enter current time by pressing button..pls someone help....

[@AnkurShah_CS]

can this be replaced by 'flet' now?

[@ouralternate-history5672]

Source for the image viewer. Please.

[@ntcov]

Does anyone know how to make a scrolling rect object for pygame with PySimpleGUI. This would hold all the buttons for buildings and their prices for a clicker game

[@facundosoto7744]

what mockup software you have used? I've been looking for it for a long time...

[@glennmeader626]

No need for mock-up software. Just use a piece of paper, draw the widgets, then write the layout definition array, just like it looks on your paper. Or use the Designer app for PySimpleGUI.

[@bobmcbob4399]

It might be Balsamiq Wireframes

[@MohAmuza]

that mockup is just a single image and he didn't show any dynamic behaviour, so he may used a free tool like pain net

[@dopy8418]

So what’s the name of that thing again ?

[@MrWorshipMe]

Using qt with the designer is way simpler, and looks much nicer.

[@TheyCallMeHacked]

But due to Qt's license, there are a lot of situations where you wouldn't want to use Qt

[@MrWorshipMe]

@@TheyCallMeHacked LGPL is actually quite permissive... it allowes for both open and closed source distribution.

[@NVidea-yz1fg]

@@MrWorshipMe But PyQt is not available under the LGPL, only GPL and commercial.

[@MrWorshipMe]

@@NVidea-yz1fg pyside has the lgpl option.

[@Polynuttery]

Kivy is MIT licensed I think and really nicely written.

[@jacobmonger7803]

This solved my problems with tkinter thanks heaps

[@dragster100]

How to make this PysimpleGUI into an App with shortcut?

[@alexandruagrapine90]

he didn't joke when he said `simple` .... oh man....that theme though

[@ANONYMOUS-wr9qu]

sadly it wont work for me it just keeps popping up a error for "PySimpleGUI" line 3

[@sanaksanandan]

How is this compared to PyQt

[@globgagalab832]

I thought this tut was good until i notaced that id doesn't work in py charm i did the same but it said that a list can only contain intigers and slices!

[@zdwlees7647]

Is it not jee-you-eye?

[@kostashow]

I'm new to coding. Is that "simple"??? I mean, i just saw a 15 min video of coding!! It is so difficult to create a compiles with a drag and drop to window UI? Years ago, i used Visual studio and had exactly that. You could design a windows app just by dragging and dropping buttons and styles into a window. Later by clicking them, of course you programming them to do whatever you wanted !!

[@juanfra1997]

Can this be use in a raspberry pi and use the gpio?

[@paulo.galvao]

tkinter does, why not...

[@rake1087]

Great tutorial but if I hear GUI as gooey one more time I'm going to lose my mind haha

[@adityachoudhary4306]

how to enter current time by pressing button..pls someone help....

[@adityachoudhary4306]

.when i add an icon and convert .py to .exe .,,,when I place the .exe on other pc the icon disappears ....can anyone help???

[@12345themadguy]

Where is the next video?

[@ram2706]

✯✯✯✯ *How did you run the code? where did you go to run it?*

[@NoamAsulin]

You need a terminal to run it. Luke cmd /Terminal.

[@nandkumarpawar7]

How can I maximize a window? Can I add a button manually?

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

Read display size from environmental parameters and go from there? Unless there is window.maximize() method...

[@lwwells]

Dude! Thank you. I hate TKinter so much. I’m rebuilding all my scientific scripts with guis.

[@user-ir2fu4cx6p]

Great tutorial, but could this library exported with the python application so it works directly on users PC's .

[@glennmeader626]

Yes, all Python app deployment tools such as PyInstaller (installers or things that package a Python app into a single file) will include all the dependencies, such as this GUI library so that it easily (trivially?) installs and runs on an end-user’s machine, without the user having to know anything about Python and all the pieces.

[@datasciencewithcharaf4206]

Why they didin't develop a drag and drop controld, it will be better

[@gala_vs]

What about kivy ?

[@paulo.galvao]

it might be better, but it's easy?

[@ruxustv8494]

why for me the image does not appear what wrong i made? can someone help me

[@RatonLaveHeureGaming]

idk i have the same issue

[@Mentox2]

PySimpleGUI syntax feels a little bit less intuitive than Tkinter's, but maybe that's me being too accustomed to tkitner.

[@glowiever]

if only it intermingles well with opengl :(

[@Aestdyfyfydyyetryuoiyfghcvb]

RAD wersion please like Delphi

[@TotallyNotAuroras2ndChannel]

Nice very nice but nothing has caught up to Visual Basic. I did GUI programing almost 20 years ago

[@WisdomShortvids]

so not drag and drop ? So 80's

[@PERSISTENTxMF]

What was the module again? Oh ya.. pysimplegui

[@JasimGamer]

Tkinter also good

[@glennmeader626]

Py SimpleGUI is a library that uses TKinter. It makes that simpler to use.

[@JasimGamer]

@@glennmeader626 yeah i know i used it before its awesome

[@granand]

Can I use SQL or plsql in the backend ?

[@glennmeader626]

Yes, you can use a Python database access library to use SQL, just like for any other Python program.

[@BrendanMetcalfe]

👍👍👍

[@L1ghtOn3]

Top 5 ways to make income from home using Python? 1.? 2.? 3.? 4.? 5.? Any ideas? 🤷‍♂️

[@yourownrisk]

why learn another syntax to achieve the same goal. we need graphics auto converted to tkinter code like Pygubu does.

[@michaeldarnell571]

Piesimple gooey

[@Al-quran-100]

CAN IT FUNCTION FOR MOBILE DEVELOPMENT

[@MrWorshipMe]

No. You have Kiwi for that.

[@sarcasm1015]

kivy

[@frankhuurman3955]

@dev null kivy*

[@NeroG4ming]

I´m a Web Developer and I love how simple this gui works, but is there a possibility to make this gui look a little "nicer" more modern if you want so? Looks pretty Windows 98-ish to me

[@steventhehistorian]

The 90's are all the rage now so maybe the Windows 98 look will make your program popular with the kids.

[@dr.schlopp4089]

Sorry I'm late, but yes; PSG allows you to create your own "themes", and use custom designed GUI elements through global method calls that use parameters allowing the user to mess with basically any element of their window, if one wishes.

[@adityachoudhary4306]

how to enter current time by pressing button..pls someone help....

[@someghosts]

Yeah would be great if they got a ui designer on board to polish up the default interface a bit.

[@pumpkin162]

A short life savings tip for everyone: Never use python for a GUI application it sucks

[@manbirjudge8415]

That's true but sometimes its needed ( I mean you really need Python ), like for computer vision and plotting graphs ( as in the video ). I agree and do not agree with you at the same time.

[@manbirjudge8415]

@@pumpkin162 i know about C++ and opencv relation but ... you understood my point. I also do not recommend python for GUIs.

[@manbirjudge8415]

@@pumpkin162 cool profile pic by the way

[@pumpkin162]

@Goman 001 Thanks mate and I like your too cz I am a Spidey Fan Boi

[@hkn5539]

It sucks? Ok. Very helpful. Not.

[@user-hd2fy7cj3v]

It is better to write simpler than native Tkinter

[@jasonking1284]

Nope. Need a RAD IDE with a form designer like Visual Studio for NET or Delphi, otherwise it's just a lot of boilerplate typing instead of getting on and programming your application logic.

[@onastick2411]

I've been in IT support for 20+ years at a local college. We deploy hundreds of bit of software across the four campus buildings, thousands of installs over the years. I've never had to deploy anything to the desktop written in Perl, Python, Ruby or any other interpreted language. Why not take the time to learn a GUI interface for something someone other than yourself is actually going to use? Even Java, if you must.

[@xl000]

Your recommendation is to start writing More Java programs?? In 2022?

[@rodane6039]

I want to teach my self programming but I find anything but Rapid Application Development unattractive there needs to be more IDES with a visual UI designer built in. I don't find it attractive to type in the design of a UI.

[@MrSanfrinsisco]

I mean you understand that Python probably isn't the best for this regardless. Python's made for data science and such, other languages and IDES have options like this

[@jasonking442]

32 years old and still, Python does not have a GUI builder like Visual BASIC. Instead you are expected to write code to create GUI elements. Ridiculous.

[@AnhTuNguyenanhtunguyen]

We need drag and drop like PyQT not something similar to other Python GUI Lib

[@contrastretrowave7640]

'gooey' 'ping'

[@xm4dn355x]

If I use empty "except" statement than my teamlead will fire me and I never find a job.

[@Meaty33]

In that case just run "except Exception" whats the worst that could happen lol

[@xm4dn355x]

@@Meaty33 lol)))

[@Gruuvin1]

The tutorial is not about exception handling, and if you were expecting that with this video, THEN you deserve to be fired.

[@leviatanMX]

Python for desktop is a joke, who in their right mind is going to write the GUI like 20 years ago?

[@GeneralPet]

What is used nowadays? I'm interested

[@leviatanMX]

@@GeneralPet Payment tools will always be better, since they have more capabilities, even some free like VS Community but using paid components like Telerik ... other tools: WinDev, WebDev, WinDev Mobile, B4a, B4i, Servoy, Lianja , PHPRunner, ASPRunner, ScriptCase, I do not work with OpenSource since my developments I cannot afford to be writing hundreds of lines to develop a simple CRUD ..

[@agnichatian]

@@leviatanMX agree on the paid tools issue - I often say: "I can't afford free". But, what do you think of using web client / server like flask on Python locally serving up the GUI. Or other python web framework if supported by a real IDE like PyCharm Pro ? My app is embedded systems, accessing hardware; think Raspberry Pi Python GUI app - any thoughts on this for a modern approach ?

[@nuclearheadache]

🥧 🤪 😏

[@hsa1727]

its GUI not goooooooooyi !!!

[@4kumetsu]

Ahhhhhhhhh!! Stop saying gooey!!!!

[@snpbck9997]

No it is....

[@wi-tinkuo7119]

We Need a GUI application for drag and drop design. Not this, and it's too simple and hard to understand how pyGUI work..... I do not use that.

[@RonanTI]

Pykidgui >> all

[@z4961]

5 minutes of publicity for 15 minutes of videos ... Unacceptable

[@ezragsit]

pass to Premium. No publicity, wow!

[@l.mansouri2902]

@@ezragsit you work for KZbin?

[@atlantic_love]

PySimpleGUI sucks for anything more than a popup modal window or two.

[@Ehren1337]

whats better then?

[@atlantic_love]

@@Ehren1337 There are not a lot of great libraries / frameworks out there, but PySimpleGui is not the best. Google is your friend. You will never do anything serious with this library.

[@Ehren1337]

@@atlantic_love whats the best one that doesnt cost $$?

[@atlantic_love]

@@Ehren1337 It isn't about cost. If you want a library that can help you make a popup window and call it an "application", PySimpleGui is that. The others are far more powerful, but will cost you a lot more time.