Welcome to GUIKIT documentation!¶
This little tool serves to facilitate getting started building a GUI for your software. It takes care of most of the boilerplate code that you need to build a GUI - making some opinionated decisions about the general layout of the application - so you can focus on adding the business logic and views specific to your problem.
guikit uses wxPython as the GUI framework, meaning that the
resulting application will have a native look and feel regadless of
running it on Windows, Linux or MacOS.
What guikit is and what is not¶
guikit takes care of the boilerplate code and enables you to have
a minimal application running in no time, but you still need to code the
rest of your GUI mannually yourself. That means you will need to learn
how to use wxPython, the widgets it offers and their options.
This is not a graphical designer for GUIs, as it could be QT
Designer,
Glade or Matlab’s App
Designer.
All of those are excellent tools… just a different kind of tools.
guikit will save you some valuable time when creating a GUI, but
it is still a low level library.
Why wxPython as GUI framework¶
While there are several excellent frameworks available, mature, well
supported and with many options for customization - in particular
PySide2 and
PyQt, both
based in QT - wxPython offers a licensing scheme a little bit more
flexible that makes it suitable for both open and close source projects.
We strongly support open source software and open research, but we understand that it is not always possible or advisable, at least at beginning, and we want to offer a tool that could suit most users most of the time.