Building GUIs with DearPyGui

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28 points·Jhchimaira14··6 comments

That looks pretty interesting. Even though I usually like native-widget-type GUI libraries, this one looks pretty special. Also I like that all rendering is actually done with low level GPU calls and doesn't depend on other common toolkits like SDL.

If it is flexible enough to support non-obvious not builtin functionality will show.

It uses quite a lot of cpu cycles in idle though. That seems to be a huge drawback of immediate mode GUIs. At least for mostly static interfaces.

You still need some library to create a window and process user's input. In this case it uses GLFW instead of SDL. Not sure if you can count it as advantage.

It uses glfw for linux and mac, and win32 for windows.

Where does one typically hit limits with this such that it's time to switch to something like Tkinter?

From the "Integration with Other Frameworks" section of the article [1]:

> DearPyGui can actually be used in conjuction with other GUI frameworks. For example, with tkinter:

> This just requires replacing start_dearpygui with setup_dearpygui, render_dearpygui_frame, and cleanup_dearpygui in order to expose the event loop.

[1] https://itnext.io/python-guis-with-dearpygui-137f4a3360f2#2a...

It's user preference. DearPyGui has alot more widgets and power than tkinter. However tkinter is native. So it's really up to you. And like vanni said, you can actually use them together.

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