Tkinter GUI generator: GUI that creates GUIs

TkGUIgen: tkinter Graphic user Interface Generator

This is the second post about this code that helps to write a gui with tkinter. Is more a reminder of the parameters of the widgets, in the intentions of the author, than a tool to build a GUI without writing code… or too many lines of code, but it could become something bigger. The code will be on this github repository. Until then this is the code. It will save the code and it will run it too.

import tkinter as tk
import os

# WIDGETS STRINGS


entry_counter = 1
button_counter = 1
def entry_code():
    global entry_counter
    w_string = """
display1 = tk.StringVar()
entry1 = tk.Entry(root,
    relief=tk.FLAT,
    textvariable=display1,
    justify='right',
    bg='orange')
entry1.pack()
entry1["font"] = "arial 30 bold"
    """
    w_string2 = w_string.replace("display1", "display" + str(entry_counter))
    w_string2 = w_string2.replace("entry1", "entry" +  str(entry_counter))
    text.insert(tk.END, w_string2)
    entry_counter += 1

def button_code():
    global button_counter
    w_string = """
b1 = tk.Button(root,
            #relief=tk.FLAT,
            compound=tk.LEFT,
            text="new",
            #command=None,
            #image=tk.PhotoImage("img.png")
            )
b1.pack()
"""
    w_string2 = w_string.replace("b1", "b" + str(button_counter))
    text.insert(tk.END, w_string2)
    button_counter += 1

def save_code():
    text.insert(tk.END, "root.mainloop()")
    with open("project.py", "w") as file:
        file.write(text.get("0.0", tk.END))
    os.startfile("project.py")

root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Tkinter widget helper")
frame1 = tk.Frame(root)
frame1.pack(side="left")
b1 = tk.Button(frame1, text="entry", command=entry_code)
b1.pack()


b2 = tk.Button(frame1, text="button", command=button_code)
b2.pack()

b3 = tk.Button(frame1, text="save", command=save_code)
b3.pack()


frame2 = tk.Frame(root)
frame2.pack(side="left")
text = tk.Text(frame2)
text.pack()
start_string = """# project.py
import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
"""
text.insert("0.0", start_string)

root.mainloop()

This is an example of GUI made with this tool.

This is the code generated

# project.py
import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

display1 = tk.StringVar()
entry1 = tk.Entry(root,
    relief=tk.FLAT,
    textvariable=display1,
    justify='right',
    bg='orange')
entry1.pack()
entry1["font"] = "arial 30 bold"
    
b1 = tk.Button(root,
            #relief=tk.FLAT,
            compound=tk.LEFT,
            text="new",
            #command=None,
            #image=tk.PhotoImage("img.png")
            )
b1.pack()
root.mainloop()

This is the GUI generated