In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) using Python and PySimpleGUI. A graphical user interface is an application that has buttons, windows, and lots of other elements that the user can use to interact with your application.
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.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
- Install the PySimpleGUI package
- Create basic user interface elements with PySimpleGUI
- Create applications, such as a PySimpleGUI image viewer
- Integrate PySimpleGUI with Matplotlib
- Use computer vision in PySimpleGUI
- Package your PySimpleGUI application for Windows
Getting Started With PySimpleGUI
PySimpleGUI was launched in 2018, so it’s a relatively new package compared with the likes of wxPython or PyQt.
PySimpleGUI has four ports:
PySimpleGUI wraps portions of each of these other packages and makes them easier to use. However, each of the ports has to be installed separately.
PySimpleGUI wraps the entirety of Tkinter, which comes with Python. PySimpleGUI has wrapped most of PySide2, but only a small portion of wxPython. When you install PySimpleGUI, you get the Tkinter variant by default.
Depending on which variant of PySimpleGUI you use, applications that you create with PySimpleGUI may not look native to their platform. But don’t let this stop you from giving PySimpleGUI a try. PySimpleGUI is still quite powerful and can get most things done with a little work.
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