Pysimplegui: [ Bug] My problem is about turning it into .exe

[ShibaeO]

Type of Issues (Enhancement, Error, Bug, Question)

Error, Bug

Operating System

wondows 10

Python version

3.8.2

PySimpleGUI Port and Version

4.16.0
C:\Users\Shibo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages\PySimpleGUI

Your Experience Levels In Months or Years

newebie in gui but ok in python

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yes

Description of Problem / Question / Details

hello, i just finished my program but after usig cx freeze i got error about tkinter ans pyinstaler said
cant run this script

itrie a bunch of different setup.py manual copy of tkinter etc and nothing ;(

if you have an idea thank :)

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[PySimpleGUI]

There are instructions in the readme on using PyInstaller. There is also a "EXE Maker" program that ha a GUI to make it easier (PySimpleGUI-EXEMaker).
https://pypi.org/project/pysimplegui-exemaker/
Or the source is in the demo programs section:
https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/blob/master/DemoPrograms/Demo_EXE_Maker.py

It was used to make the EXE files for the COVID Graphing program that you'll find here : https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI-COVID19

It's not always a smooth process however.

[ShibaeO]

Still the same problem with your app, i tried to open with .bat to maybe get a log about the bug but nothing. maybe because i dont use class ?
thx for your insanly fast anwser ^^

[ShibaeO]

with pyinstaller with the command --log-level=ERROR i got a list of module wich failed to be import

missing module named ScrolledText - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)
missing module named tkFont - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)
missing module named tkColorChooser - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)
missing module named ttk - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)
missing module named tkFileDialog - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)
missing module named Tkinter - imported by PySimpleGUI.PySimpleGUI (conditional)

but a lot of my import for my program.

[PySimpleGUI]

I'm running 3.6. Not sure exactly what to tell you other than it looks like tkinter has problems. Stackoverflow likely has information on troubleshooting tkinter problems with pyinstaller.

I'm confused by the other message with the screenshot. What exactly did you try and run? Not all programs compile well. The COVID19 program that is posted here: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI-COVID19

was compiled using the exemaker program. Perhaps a good test would be to run the EXE Maker program (under the Demo Programs folder in this GitHub) to duplicate creation of an EXE like the one posted in the COVID19 repo.

It's a program that's known to build and run. The py file is here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI-COVID19/master/COVID19_Confirmed_Cases_Graphs.py

[ShibaeO]

I found a alternative wich is nuitka wish is super but in standalone mode the gui dont start

[PySimpleGUI]

You'll find lengthy discussions on the Nuitka GitHub about tkinter / PySimpleGUI. I thought that @JorjMcKie wrote a program that aids in building exes using nuitka. Someone was on Twitter this past week giving it a try as well. I've not used it as pyinstaller has worked really well.

[ShibaeO]

thx for your sharing :)

[ShibaeO]

Seems to work thx you so much

[PySimpleGUI]

What did you find that works? Were there specific instructions posted that you followed?

[ShibaeO]

https://github.com/Nuitka/NUITKA-Utilities on this repo
exe_maker.py work fine and super simple
onefile-maker-windows.py working too but the readme is not super detailled you have to install https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Download on c:/
edit : nefile-maker-windows.py is working but not with my program

and now im trying the hinted compilation wich had some bug

but overall i follow the readme of the repo

[PySimpleGUI]

Oh wow.... I knew @JorjMcKie worked hard on this and I'm sure he told me all about this happening, but I didn't recall that a PySimpleGUI based utility was hosted in the Nuikta repo itself. That's really awesome to see.

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Side note on these types of utilities....

It's a great example of how a little bit of PySimpleGUI code can take a command line utility and turn it into an application that anyone is capable of using. A single feature can be made into an entire application as well. The PyIDM project showed how adding a GUI to youtube-dl can make for a fantastic application.

Because of the way PySimpleGUI is architected and the linear nature of user code, it truly is a trivial to add a GUI onto the front of an existing command line program. The typical OOP / callback based architectures aren't as easy use like this. GUIs where you hand over execution by calling a master mainloop that doesn't return makes it somewhat difficult.

It's possible (and easy) to write front-end GUIs as a single line of Python code. All it's doing is collecting some parameters and returning which is a single line of code with PySimpleGUI.

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Anyway, glad you found a way to get an EXE file. I assume it's so that you can distribute your application to other people. Can you share anything about what you're making or have screenshot you can post?

[ShibaeO]

https://github.com/ShibaeO/SteamAccountManger---SAM this my project
screenshot is on the repo
the exe isnt on the repo but if you want i can send you the exe but i have to fix something. and my app is not entirely finished i know its kinf of weird to try to turning it into an exe before finishing it but i like work like that ^^

but thx for all your help
and yes on my repo i have a program wich i build the gui with tkinter and when i saw it now im : noway I HAVE to re-build it with pysimplegui

[PySimpleGUI]

Be sure and post screenshots in your readme files. They're super easy to add and they draw in a lot of readers / users. They're just nice to look at and see what people are accomplishing. Even if someone doesn't use your program this time around, you may very well inspire them to write and publish something. I also like to steal designs and ideas from users any chance I get.

[PySimpleGUI]

How do you like using configparser?

I like the look of .ini files, but I've been using json instead. I just used them on this COVID19 graphing program. https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI-COVID19

What I like about them is that I'm working with Python dictionaries when I use them and it's only a couple of lines of code to do all of the disk I/O. I'm into "simple" and reading/writing a Python dictionary as the way to save/load settings seemed about as simple as I was going to find.

I've been working on a Template for PySimpleGUI Desktop Widgets and am leaning towards using json as the setting mechanism for the templates. The settings function is always a basic:

• Create a settings window
• Read and close the window
• Convert "values" dictionary into dictionary to save as JSON
• Call json.dump

The startup is just the opposite... json.load, etc.

Anyway... interested in how you like .ini files.

[ShibaeO]

I tried json and can't found a solution to add and remove an account without deleting all the data or something else , and i dont know why i love ini and config parser is pretty simple to use and it work for what i do :)
i want program which work ^^
thx for folowing my project :)

im going to see you covid19 im currious how did you used json, tuto and general doc didn't help me to do what i wish

good luck and thx for you work

[ShibaeO]

ok ok ok ....
your program is like ; my brain explode ^^

[PySimpleGUI]

oh... sorry.... uhmm.... it's not super well documented I suppose. The idea was to get it out there.

But the settings code is pretty well self-contained. There are 2 functions that do the read/write. And then the rest of it is that you're using a Python dictionary to hold all the settings.

I've been using them as little databases too. I mean, you get a key and associated data in a dictionary... that sounds a lot like a database to me.

Lemme know where you need help in the code and I'll do my best to go back and document it better.

[PySimpleGUI]

Here's the part that deals with settings....

SETTINGS_FILE = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), r'C19-Graph.cfg')

DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {'rows':MAX_ROWS, 'cols':MAX_COLS, 'theme':'Dark Blue 17', 'forecasting':False,
                    'graph_x_size':GRAPH_SIZE[0], 'graph_y_size':GRAPH_SIZE[1], 'display days':DISPLAY_DAYS,
                    'data source':'confirmed'}

########################################## SETTINGS ##########################################
def load_settings():
    try:
        with open(SETTINGS_FILE, 'r') as f:
            settings = jsonload(f)
    except:
        sg.popup_quick_message('No settings file found... will create one for you', keep_on_top=True, background_color='red', text_color='white')
        settings = change_settings(DEFAULT_SETTINGS)
        save_settings(settings)
    return settings


def save_settings(settings, chosen_locations=None):
    if chosen_locations:
        settings['locations'] = chosen_locations
    with open(SETTINGS_FILE, 'w') as f:
        jsondump(settings, f)

The key is to carry around the dictionary in its entirety. If you change anything, then you write the entire thing out to disk.

[ShibaeO]

i think i will keep my deer configParser but thx for your explication :)

[PySimpleGUI]

Wasn't suggesting you switch. I was asking how you liked what you're doing as a way to determine if I want to switch.

[PySimpleGUI]

I think this can be closed. If you need something else lemme know and we can re-open if required. I don't see anything at the moment though.