Creating custom dialog in pyhamilton

PyHamilton
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Hi, has anyone looked into whether it would be possible to create and launch a custom dialog in pyhamilton? The dialogs are in xaml so if there was a way to send an xaml file in a command to venus that would theoretically work, just not sure how that command would work.

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yeah 100% possible, what are the input fields in the dialog? I can share a quick example.

Also moving to the pyhamilton category.

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For input fields it’d be nice to see a checkbox and numeric input? The details aren’t too important, just interested in how it would work creating from python. Thanks!

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For the most basic interface you can use the input function:

output = input("Your prompt here")

Where output is a string.

Another library that provides windows for dialog boxes is Tkinter. For example:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import simpledialog

def show_numeric_dialog():
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.withdraw()
    value = simpledialog.askfloat("Numeric Input", "Enter a number:")
    if value is not None:
        print("Entered number:", value)
    else:
        print("No value entered.")

show_numeric_dialog()

Hope this helps

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Ah okay I was thinking about creating a dialog such as in you would in Venus, but you’re right using tkinter is definitely the better route. Thanks!

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Take a look into the Tkinter wrapper PySimpleGUI if you are interested in creating dialogs with Python. It’s really easy to program :slight_smile:

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I’m quite late to this topic but I’ll suggest pyqt5 if you’re making something academic or for internal use. Qt Designer ships with anaconda and it has a slightly more modern look than what you get with Tkinter.

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