[ User Feedback ] How did you first learn about PySimpleGUI?

[PySimpleGUI]

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Sorry for the non-issue post.

It would be helpful to understand where you fine gals and guys first heard about, discovered, searched for a solution, and found PySimpleGUI.

Did you hear about it somewhere via audio/video? Did a colleague/friend tell you? I think it may be a memorable moment for most that they'll be able to recall (I hope).

Thank you for the years of fun and for making this a gratifying experience.

[infinitepower18]

I learnt about PySimpleGUI when I was looking up packages that I could use to easily design a GUI. Though I had some experience with Tkinter, I wanted to use something more simple so I could focus on my app's functionality and stability.

I ended up finding PySimpleGUI27, it was only a few days after I first launched my app that I realised that the 27 stood for Python 2.7 version, I thought it was a fork of the original PySimpleGUI 😛

This was version 1.0.0 of my app:

Over the coming months, the app continued to evolve as I learnt more about PySimpleGUI, especially the theming options available which I managed to make a near Windows 11 native UI out of. After I found out about the Nuitka compiler, I could finally make it a compiled exe and ultimately an MSIX package, pretty much fulfilling everything I wanted to do with this app.

It has achieved over 9000 downloads on Microsoft Store since its launch in February with fairly positive reviews. Last week I relaunched it as a packaged Windows application and I noticed an increase in the amount of downloads per day.

If it wasn't for PySimpleGUI this app wouldn't have been easy to program in Python, so thank you so much for this!

MS Store download link: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NMFSJB25QJR
GitHub repo: https://github.com/infinitepower18/WSA-Sideloader

[PySimpleGUI]

@infinitepower18 where do you learn about it? Did you do a google search for a list of python GUI packages and saw a site that discussed them that then led you to PySimpleGUI? I'm hoping to find the root place people are finding us.

[infinitepower18]

I don't remember exactly, it was a long time ago.

[PySimpleGUI]

it was a long time ago

hearing that! Glad you've stuck around

[AyhamSaffar]

A few weeks before starting uni (to do engineering) this YouTube video popped up on my feed. I always liked the idea of making data analysis type apps but the TKinter and VBA tutorials where all super long and boring.

I made a sciency app for fun using this, which landed me a big data analysis app project with one of the research groups at my uni, which i then used to convince another prof at uni to pay for a summer machine learning course.

The simplicity of this app is the reason i got into coding and i am hugely grateful.

I feel like having more super short YouTube videos with doable PSG projects that are genuinely useful would be a great advertising tool for STEM people.

[SteveJenness]

A few weeks ago, I went down a Python YouTube rabbit hole that didn't have much to do with GUIs. Suddenly it came out into this clearing with a big signpost that said, "This way to PySimpleGUI". Shortly thereafter I found that several of my projects sprouted GUIs using PySimpleGUI; almost all on their own. I'm enjoying living with it.

[PySimpleGUI]

Well, this totally made my day!

Great story, really engaging, and feels SOOOO good... thank you!

[MrChinR]

@infinitepower18
Hello, can I ask you how you achieve the rounded corners of windows and buttons?

[infinitepower18]

@MrChinR Windows 11 makes the windows rounded for all programs, I didn't do anything there.
For the buttons, I used a modified version of this to account for my program's design and DPI scaling. You can see my version here

[MrChinR]

@infinitepower18 Thank you for your reply, which is very helpful.