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DearPyGui
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hoffstadt / DearPyGui

DearPyGui

Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

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15.7KGitHub stars
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Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

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Observed mentions: 2020-08-12 15:29:59 UTC to 2025-02-18 15:23:05 UTC.

02462020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 5 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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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
In Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
Thanks for the reply and tips. Not the developer, but a user of Dear PyGui. Unfortunately, I cannot change the title of the post anymore. I didn't see a method to include screenshots. The documentation includes short code with stand-alone executable code that shows specific functionality. https://dearpygui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/documentation/ren... Quite a few apps on the showcase page include a link to the corresponding Github repository, so you can inspect the code there. https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/wiki/Dear-PyGui-Showc... Building a Notepad clone seems quite possible. That would be a menubar on top with a few menu items and a text input widget for inputting the text. Creating Undo/Redo functionality is not supported by the framework, but that could be handled in the Python code. A text editing widget, akin to what you wo
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uld use in an IDE, is on the roadmap for version 1.x (https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/projects/4). Does that answer your questions? Any other recommendations?
In The best Python GUI framework just got better

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