Advanced GUI for Python scripts

[Belekz]

Hey everyone!

I'm an automation engineer for living and learning Python with the RPi 3 just for fun. I'm learning everything from the Internet to get a working python scripts for the GPIO programming. That works fine, but for real (hobby) projects I want to use an GUI to control the GPIO.

So currently I'm looking for a platform to build my GUI with. There are three requirements for me:

1. Programmable with Python or .NET or C#
2. Possibility to run on PuTTY
3. It needs to be easy to design. I want to drag my objects into the window and not need to specify all parameters by text

By watching YT I meet the Tkinter library for Python scripts, but can't run it over PuTTY and that's an absolute need because I don't use a touch screen for this project. So There is no possibility to run the GUI local. I also notice that some people are using QT for this job, but first I want to know if that's the best option before I try to install QT on the RPi. Because that should be a lot of work and my level is still beginner.

If there is an easy way to get the Tkinter library working over PuTTY I would love to hear that too!

Shoot your ideas!

Thx a lot!

[PeterO]

You might also consider this https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Used in conjunction with glade (the Gtk+ gui designer) you can get your "widget drag and drop" functionality.

As for using PuTTY , I have no idea, never used it, never needed it as all my PCs run Linux of one flavour or another.

PeterO

[dgordon42]

If there is an easy way to get the Tkinter library working over PuTTY I would love to hear that too!

Tkinter requires a GUI to display it's stuff, and PuTTY only allows a remote CLI connection.

Real VNC is bundled with Raspbian Jessie theses days, and that will allow a remote GUI connection to & from the Pi, and will display Tkinter stuff.

Hope this helps,
Dave.

[kusti8]

I've used pyqt5 for all of my things. I edit a UI with Qt designer, convert it to a python file with pyuic5 and then make the main GUI code that connects to that. It's really simple and I like it a lot. I feel it's a lot easier than glade also and has a lot of support. See here for an example program:
https://github.com/kusti8/hue-plus

[Martin Frezman]

Replace PuTTY with MobaXterm. As its name implies, the later package is (among many many other things) an X server (for Windows PC). Thus, you can login to your Pi via SSH, with X redirected back to the PC and thus you get X capability. Easier to setup than VNC.

[Gavinmc42]

Or you could go for a web interface.
HTML5, CSS, JS etc and run a webserver on the Pi.

Start with SimpleHTTPServer.py it is already in Python.
You need to make an index.html file and then start the server in that folder
http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/modul ... ttpserver/

The advantage of doing it this way is the external browser does the rendering for you.
Bit tricky if you want to control from another Pi running a browser as you need to use Chromium if your stuff has JS in it.