tk-builder 1.0.1

This provides a set tools for simple creation of graphical user interfaces for Python based on the tkinter library. The main focus for the GUIs is assumed to be on overhead imaging applications.

Tk_Builder

The goal encouraging this project was to introduce the capability for fast and simple prototyping to enable research. The decision was made to use tkinter for this capability. The particulars of this choice are entirely pragmatic. Most importantly, tkinter is well supported for essentially every architecture that Python is supported, and there are no complicating factors in licensing, configuration, or installation.

For better or for worse, tkinter will work on essentially any government system with a viable Python environment right out of the box. The same cannot generally be said for the other popular GUI frameworks like QT, WX, or GTK. This provides a set tools for simple creation of graphical user interfaces for Python based on the tkinter library. The main focus for the GUIs is assumed to be on overhead imaging applications.

Origins

This was developed to enable simple prototyping of graphical user interfaces useful in conjunction with SarPy project, and was developed at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The software use, modification, and distribution rights are stipulated within the MIT license.

Dependencies

The core library functionality depends only on numpy >= 1.9.0, pillow, and matplotlib, all of which can (now) be installed using conda or pip.

Python 2.7

The development here has been geared towards Python 3.6 and above, but efforts have been made towards remaining compatible with Python 2.7. If you are using the library from Python 2.7, there is an additional dependencies for the typing and future (not to be confused with the more widely known futures) packages, easily installed using conda or pip.