Re: Looking for Python GUI RAD of some sort

Shivank Sharma <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 10 Aug 2026, Chris Green wrote:
>> I'm looking for something that will make things easier designing the
>> GUI layout and so on, rather than doing it 'by hand' as it were. I
>> guess what I'm looking for is a RAD of some sort but I can't really
>> find anything that doesn't seem very complex and heavyweight.
>> 
>> Is there anything out there that provides a drag and drop [ish] tool
>> that generates actual Python code? I want to be able to play with the
>> code directly having built the basics.
>
> Well, yes there are similar tools to what you are trying to find.  If
> you are open to using TKinter for quick utility programs, PAGE is
> probably the closest thing to what you are describing, it is a
> standalone drag and drop visual tool, it generates python code
> containing Tkinter widgets setup and callback stubs.
>
> Other one is Qt Designer + UIC (pyside 6 / pyqt) Qt is the most
> polished GUI framework out there, and its visual design tool can be
> used completely independently of any IDE.
>
> Shivank

I've used Glade with Python to create some small GUI apps. It can do
much more than what I've done with it, and it's GTK+.