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Gooey

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(For the GUI toolkit that uses pyglet, see Glooey.)

Turn (almost) any Python 2 or 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line

Converts command-line programs into GUI applications

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  • Converting Python console programs into GUI applications with Gooey
    • Gooey is a tool that converts Python 3 console programs into user-friendly GUI applications.
    • It provides a GUI instead of a command prompt, making programs easier to use and nicer looking.
    • Useful when building scripts for non-programmers or utilities for tasks such as moving data.
  • How Gooey works
    • Gooey attaches to your code by adding a decorator to the method that holds the argparse declarations.
    • At run time, it parses the Python script, extracts the ArgumentParser references, and assembles the GUI.
    • GooeyParser gives finer control over the widgets shown in the GUI.
  • Gooey internationalization
    • Gooey can be easily translated into many languages and currently ships with more than 18 translations.
    • Supporting a new language is as simple as adding key/value pairs to the gooey/languages/ directory.
  • Gooey global configuration
    • Gooey's overall look and feel can be customized by passing arguments to the decorator.
    • Many components can be customized, including encoding, language, startup size, and font settings.
  • Gooey layout customization
    • Gooey offers flexible layouts through a few simple customizations.
    • Provides various layout options such as whether to show a sidebar and whether to use tab groups.
  • Gooey run modes
    • Gooey offers several display modes that adapt the layout to the content type and the user's experience level.
    • Advanced, basic, and no-config modes let it provide GUIs tailored to different user needs.
  • Gooey menus
    • Custom menu groups and items can be added to Gooey's menu bar.
    • Supports various types of menu options to provide program information, message dialogs, links, and more.
  • Gooey dynamic validation
    • Before passing user input to the program, Gooey can optionally run a pre-validation to check that all arguments pass validation.
  • Gooey lifecycle events and UI control
    • Gooey provides lifecycle hooks for taking additional follow-up actions on a program's successful run or failure and for controlling the current state of the UI.
  • Gooey progress display
    • Gooey can update the state of the progress bar based on textual progress updates.
    • Progress can be reported to Gooey through regular expressions and custom evaluation expressions.
  • Gooey icon customization
    • Gooey lets you replace the default icons with custom images/icons.
    • A custom image directory can be specified with the image_dir argument.
  • Gooey packaging
    • Packaging Gooey as an executable is very easy; pyinstaller can bundle the application into a ready-to-run executable.

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