rich VS DearPyGui

rich is so feature-packed that it might even feel like 'overkill' for very simple tasks. However, this extensive capability means you can do almost anything you can imagine with terminal styling and layout.

Ever wanted a clean way to adjust your external monitor's brightness and contrast from the command line? Let's build a simple yet beautiful Python CLI tool named monitor using the power of ddcutil and rich!

rich: Enhances the command-line interface with rich text formatting.

2.Rich Rich Rich is a modern Python library designed for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. While Rich is often used for rendering formatted logs or terminal output, it also includes a TUI toolkit for building full-fledged interactive applications.

Where to check it out: https://github.com/Textualize/rich

> Personally I found Textual a little weird to use, but better than ncurses.

Out of curiosity, have you looked at it's sibling project "rich"?

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

Seems like it provides a TUI toolkit as well, and it looks a bit less weird than the approach Textual uses.

Was thinking of trying it out with a side project recently, but got pulled onto some other stuff instead so haven't yet started. Nor made the choice between them. ;)

I recently used the rich library to print tables in terminal.

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

Right! I usually use rich's print [1] for this kind of thing too, which I chose after testing a few other libraries that do pretty printing.

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1: https://github.com/Textualize/rich?tab=readme-ov-file#rich-p...

Rich

Looks beautiful so congratulation for the launch.

Not sure if today this is enough though without any kind of AI chat assistant. Trae [0] is based on VSCode and Jetbrains Fleet are good looking as well. Visualization is definitely a big plus but there is also alternative like using rerun [1] and dearpygui [2] or some VSCode plugins (Python Image Preview, AREPL for Python)- might be hard to compete with those free alternatives on a subscription model IMHO but good luck!

[0] https://trae.ai/

[1] https://www.rerun.io/

[2] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

For native GUI, DearPyGui[0] as modern as you can.

For browser web-based GUI, you can use nicegui[1]

[0] -- https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

[1] -- https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui

If it's just to align text in the centre or to the right of a box, you could use a button and, by using theming, hide the fact that it's a button. https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/issues/1111

Personally, i like PyQt or PySide they have basically everything you need to make a proper app or even simple apps, but there is another DearPyGui this is basically python version of imgui the c++ library, it provides some good customization options and can be used for simple or complex projects too, their discord is also very helpful.

There are some examples in the showcase as well. https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/wiki/Dear-PyGui-Showcase

I'm a big fan of DearPyGUI

Use a button and set width of the button equal to the width of the window. Using theming to set the button text alignment to center. A comparable solution, for aligning to the right, can be found here. https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/issues/1111

I was using PyQt5/PySide which will give you a nice native look but I eventually shifted over to DearPyGui for most of my smaller utilities. Its just faster for me. You will get more options and freedom with PyQt/PySide though and can use QT Designer to design your interfaces pretty easily.