Create an interface with PySimpleGUI

In this example we are going to create an interface with PySimpleGUI in Python. You can use the PySimpleGUI package to create beautiful interfaces that users will enjoy. PySimpleGUI is a new Python GUI library that has recently gained a lot of interest.

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Install PySimpleGUI

To install PySimpleGUI from pip you can use the following command:

pip install pysimplegui

You may need to install tkinter, since PySimpleGUI is a Wrapper for tkinter.

pip install tk

In the first example we will create a window with the title “Hello World“.

import PySimpleGUI as sg
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sg.Window(title= "Hello World", layout=[[]], margins=(100,80)).read()

In this second example we will generate a window but now we add a button with the help of a layout, which is simply a container of graphic elements that in this case is a text label and the button with the legend “Ok“.

import PySimpleGUI as sg
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layout = [
    [sg.Text("Hello from PySimpleGUI")],
    [sg.Button("Ok")]
]

window = sg.Window("Demi", layout)

while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event == "Ok" or event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
        break

window.close()

The result will be the following:

Finally a more complete example, where we will also display images in png or gif format (jpg is not supported with tkinter):

import PySimpleGUI as sg
import os.path

from PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI import FolderBrowse, Listbox
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file_list_column = [
    [
        sg.Text("Image Directory"),
        sg.In(size=(25, 1), enable_events=True, key="-FOLDER-"),
        sg.FolderBrowse()
    ],
    [
        sg.Listbox(
            values=[], enable_events=True, size=(40, 20),
            key="-FILE LIST-"
        )
    ]
]

image_viewer_column = [
    [sg.Text("Choose the image you want to view:")],
    [sg.Text(size=(100,1), key="-TOUT-")],
    [sg.Image(key="-IMAGE-")]
]

layout = [
    [
        sg.Column(file_list_column),
        sg.VSeparator(),
        sg.Column(image_viewer_column)
    ]
]

window = sg.Window("Visualizer", layout)

while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event == "Exit" or event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
        break
    if event == "-FOLDER-":
        folder = values["-FOLDER-"]
        try:
            file_list = os.listdir(folder)
        except:
            file_list =[]
        
        fnames = [
            f
            for f in file_list
            if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(folder, f))
            and f.lower().endswith((".png",".gif"))
        ]
        window["-FILE LIST-"].update(fnames)
    elif event == "-FILE LIST-":
        try:
            filename = os.path.join(
                values["-FOLDER-"], values["-FILE LIST-"][0]
            )
            window["-TOUT-"].update(filename)
            window["-IMAGE-"].update(filename=filename)
        except:
            pass

window.close()

In this last example we add several elements, among which is a FolderBrowse and a Listbox in a first column. On the right side we have an Image element, where our selected image will appear.

When selecting a folder with valid images, the list with the files that we can view will appear.

By clicking on the item in the list you can view the image:

We hope this examples of how to Create an interface with PySimpleGUI will be useful for you, soon we will make more examples of this library.

See more documentation: https://pysimplegui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

See more examples: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/tree/master/DemoPrograms