GUI.md

Graphical User Interfaces

Are hard

• The complexity that lives in the GUI

  • Possible solutions to state
    • Connect the Box's
    • Lift the state up
    • Message Bus
  • All of these have their downsides. GUI's are hard

• OS Screenshots - though the ages

  • [retro-graphics]

• guizero is a Python 3 library for creating simple GUIs

• PySimpleGUI - Python GUIs for Humans

• 7GUIs - 7GUIs defines 7 tasks that represent typical challenges in GUI programming. This site implements the 7 tasks using vanilla [html], [css] & [javascript]

• You don't need a modal window - Just make a separate page

• In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

  • 4 decades - checkbox's are square (multiple selection, toggle) - radio (single choice, no deselect) are round
  • Apple now have circle checkbox's - breaking 4 decades of GUI tradition

todo

• guietta
  • A tool for making simple Python GUIs

#electron

GTK

GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces in NIM

Pixel GUI

• SelectButton.net: Pixel GUIs

  • Forum thread of people showing examples of custom old pixel guis that look amazing
  • dupe link from [history-of-graphics]

• The RISC OS GUI

  • Ahead of it's time? Fascinating breakdown with loads of example images

• GUI Wonderland

  • A set of articles about retro gui's