Re: Looking for Python GUI RAD of some sort

Russell S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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+.
> 
It does seem to be no longer developed though, nothing has happened to
it since 2022.