GutinGUI is a wrapper for the CodeSkulptor SimpleGUI API using TkInter. This is a fork of dholm/simpleguitk, with some changes to make it suitable for use in our CS1822 course.

CodeSkulptor is a browser-based Python interpreter used in the online course "An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python".

This wrapper makes it easier to work in the development environment of your choice while still being able to quickly test your implementation without using a web browser.

This fork adds three extra named arguments for simplegui.create_frame. In addition, existing arguments can be called with named arguments.

There's no way this horrible hack is going onto pypi, so you're going to have to set your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

1. In cmd.exe, enter set PYTHONPATH=[path to cloned repo]
2. Run your python code in the terminal

1. Search for Edit the system environment variables in the Start menu
2. Click Environment Variables
3. Add or create a new variable, with name PYTHONPATH and the value to the path of where you have cloned this repository.
4. Restart your terminal to apply the changes. You may also need to restart the entire text editor if it has a built in terminal.

• Pillow in order to use images.
• Pygame for sound support.
• matplotlib for SimplePlot support.

None of these are strict requirements as SimpleGUITk will run without them as long as you don't need to use the SimpleGUI Images or SimpleGUI Sounds APIs.

Although GutinGUI is a drop-in replacement, you should probably use a try-catch statement to utilise the new named arguments within simplegui.create_frame.

import gutingui as simplegui

Assuming you intend to eventually run your code in CodeSkulptor make it a habit to test it often. As of this writing some of Python's language features are unavailable in CodeSkulptor and catching these early on makes it easier to make sure your implementation works as expected.

One important difference between SimpleGUITk and CodeSkulptor is that due to the design of TkInter the call to frame.start() is going to block until the application terminates. Simply make sure that it is called as the last line of the application.

To use SimplePlot just import it the same way as in CodeSkulptor.

import simpleplot

• Refer to https://github.com/dholm/simpleguitk#changes.