PyQt5 & tkinter libraries are GUIs for python. These libraries are not easy of use, e.g. in C# and Delphi I can drag and drop the objects in my form to use it. But, in python this is not available as I know. Any other new alternative GUI libraries for python?
NOTE: PyQt5: is a very rich library. and I uploaded a running program on youtube one year ago. take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgp1LMkTcYA
PyQt5 & tkinter libraries are not easy for use to new programmers and learners. If python is a general purpose language and easiest programming language to learn then why GUIs libraries are complicated if we comparing them to Delphi and C# GUIs?
I do agree with how you feel about the learning curve many GUI libraries have to new programmers. Programming a GUI is very focused around function callbacks and loops, making it hard to sometimes get a feel for what is going on.
The big three GUI libraries are wxPython, pyQt and kivvy for good reason. They are very portable and light weight for most use purposes. Of these, I would recommend pyQt and I'll tell you why.
Most anything you could want is already there in the library. If it isn't, you can easily wrap methods together with your own code. You can use this approach along with the pyQt5 designer (https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/designer.html) to first draft, then tune a GUI application. It is possible to create the entire GUI in the designer, but you can do so much more by taking the template you design and modifying that.
Good luck!
OpenGL has Graphic Libraries in a lot of languages, in python PyOpenGL is available. It is interoperable with the libraries written in previous answers. In my opinion it is quite good for making GUI.
- PyQT vs TKinter
PyQt5 is a set of Python bindings for Qt v5, TKinter is an object oriented frontend of Tcl/Tk.
What you should really compare is QT and Tk. QT is little more business oriented than Tcl/Tk. So it offers a relatively richer toolkit with more widgets etc. Tcl/Tk is more low level than Qt (you need to build some things yourself). There are many other alternatives widget toolkits and Python has libraries for a lot of them. GTK (PyGTK), wxWidgets (wxPython) .... Here is a extensive list : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits
- Python native GUI toolkits
There are some Widget toolkits written in python, and for python (GTK is written in C, QT in C++, TK in C scripted with TCL ...).
The two that I'm aware of are Kivy and Beeware. The difference between the two is that Kivy offers its own UI Elements (own versions of buttons, text labels, text entry forms, and so on), while Beeware has Toga.
Toga is a cross platform GUI toolkit which provides a common API for UI operations. In simple words it takes your components and renders them according to your target platform .i.e if your target platform is android, Toga will make sure the buttons, forms, text labels, and other UI elements are native android elements. For windows it will render them using python.net, in Linux it uses GTK and so on ...
To know more about Beeware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPzlIJ57dk
- PyQT and TKinter are hard to learn:
I don't think that this is the case PyQT5 bring QT to Python (which is relatively easy to approach). "writing python is way more easy than writing C++" (The opposite can be true).
From the details on your question, it seems that the problem you want to address is the lack of GUI builders (Designers) in the python world.
This is not true ! for PyQT5 you can design your GUI using QT designer and then convert it to a .py file
pyuic5 yourapp.ui > app.py
https://www.codementor.io/deepaksingh04/design-simple-dialog-using-pyqt5-designer-tool-ajskrd09n
There is pygubu for TKinter
https://github.com/alejandroautalan/pygubu
It seems you are asking why there aren't better GUI design tools for Python. I think the answer is that making a good stable and consistent cross platform GUI framework is hard create and keep up to date with rapidly changing platforms. GUIs on the big commercial OSes are very mature and benefit from a couple decades of intense investment and project management. The GUI Framework APIs of the major OSes change rapidly to innovate new features. Open Source tools have a challenge to keep up with these changes.
If you only need to run on a single platform, you may find some tools that better support the native GUI of your target platform and let you code in Python, at the expense of getting locked into that platform.
For example on OSX, there is PyObjC, which lets you design a GUI using typical native GUI design tools, and bridges the event callbacks to your python code.
I used WxPython but do not recommend it. I have used QTWebKit for viewing real time OpenCV image processing. I recommend Kivy for simple needs. A browser based solution might be better than any of these. My current GUI project uses Lovelace on Home Assistant.
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