Is there a GUI design app for the Tkinter grid geometry

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Does anyone know of a GUI design app that lets you choose drag drop the widgets  and then turn that layout into Python code with the appropriate Tkinter calls  amp  arrangement using the grid geometry manager   So far I ve turned up a couple of pretty nice options that I may end up using  but they generate code using either pack or place instead              EDIT   Please note this is not to seek a  recommendation  per se  but rather it is a factual inquiry   I was asking whether or not such an app exists          Before you say it   Yes  I know Tkinter is easy to learn  and Yes  I ve found multiple online sources to help me do so  and I m already on my way with that   This isn t about avoiding the effort of learning  it s about using the right tool for the job   I found out a long time ago that those drag-and-drop widget environments for coding program logic  are just too klunky and unmanageable when the project gets beyond a certain size -- for bigger stuff  it s just easier to build and maintain the logic when it s in plain text   More recently I ve found out that the reverse is true for designing a GUI   Writing text works up to a point  but when you have a main window with 30 or 40 widgets  plus a couple of side windows each with similar complexity  it goes much faster and easier if you can design it graphically rather than typing it all out

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Apart from the options already given in other answers, there's a current more active, recent and open-source project called pygubu.

This is the first description by the author taken from the github repository:

Pygubu is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the python tkinter module.

The user interfaces designed are saved as XML, and by using the pygubu builder these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed. Pygubu is inspired by Glade.

Pygubu hello world program is an introductory video explaining how to create a first project using Pygubu.

The following in an image of interface of the last version of pygubu designer on a OS X Yosemite 10.10.2:

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I would definitely give it a try, and contribute to its development.

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You have VisualTkinter also known as Visual Python  Development seems not active  You have sourceforge and googlecode sites  Web site is here   On the other hand  you have PAGE that seems active and works in python 2 7 and py3k  As you indicate on your comment  none of these use the grid geometry  As far as I can say the only GUI builder doing that could probably be Komodo Pro GUI Builder which was discontinued and made open source in ca  2007   The code was located in the SpecTcl repository   It seems to install fine on win7 although has not used it yet  This is an screenshot from my PC      By the way  Rapyd Tk also had plans to implement grid geometry as in its documentation says it is not ready  yet   Unfortunately it seems  nearly  abandoned

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The best tool for doing layouts using grid  IMHO  is graph paper and a pencil  I know you re asking for some type of program  but it really does work  I ve been doing Tk programming for a couple of decades so layout comes quite easily for me  yet I still break out graph paper when I have a complex GUI    Another thing to think about is this  The real power of Tkinter geometry managers comes from using them together   If you set out to use only grid  or only pack  you re doing it wrong  Instead  design your GUI on paper first  then look for patterns that are best solved by one or the other  Pack is the right choice for certain types of layouts  and grid is the right choice for others  For a very small set of problems  place is the right choice  Don t limit your thinking to using only one of the geometry managers      The only caveat to using both geometry managers is that you should only use one per container  a container can be any widget  but typically it will be a frame

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