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Hey Guys,
I got tired lookin at specitem today and threw together a quick python gui for editing it instead:
I'm working on making it a similar experience to VS Code, where the files ( in this case items ) you're editing, act as tabs that you can pop-out, move around and all that jazzy stuff. Right now I've just got the base of the tabbing down with things like-opening an item will replace the current tab, if the current tab has no changes made to it. Otherwise it opens an additional tab. And, it indicates to you when there is unsaved changes in the tab header or will prompt you on close, general editor stuff. I definitely prefer an approach to editing specitem like this, although you can definitely make bulk changes a lot easier in xml.
Before i go any further with it, I've been contemplating switching out Custom Tkinter for potentially PySide6, but I'm still shopping around for something that could be a better.
Also playing around with the idea of just making it web based in a wrapper like Electron as well. That's is a bit boring, but i could definitely make it look a lot prettier in web lol.
Some questions for you guys:
1) Do you have any recommendations for a python gui library?
2) What sort of features do you think would be cool in something like this?
The plan is to expand it to be able to be a tool for editing other resource files in the future as well.
Once i get a good baseline of something usable, I'll post up the GitHub repo if it's something you think you'd use/contribute to! ( there's probably heaps of these around already though lol )
I got tired lookin at specitem today and threw together a quick python gui for editing it instead:
I'm working on making it a similar experience to VS Code, where the files ( in this case items ) you're editing, act as tabs that you can pop-out, move around and all that jazzy stuff. Right now I've just got the base of the tabbing down with things like-opening an item will replace the current tab, if the current tab has no changes made to it. Otherwise it opens an additional tab. And, it indicates to you when there is unsaved changes in the tab header or will prompt you on close, general editor stuff. I definitely prefer an approach to editing specitem like this, although you can definitely make bulk changes a lot easier in xml.
Before i go any further with it, I've been contemplating switching out Custom Tkinter for potentially PySide6, but I'm still shopping around for something that could be a better.
Also playing around with the idea of just making it web based in a wrapper like Electron as well. That's is a bit boring, but i could definitely make it look a lot prettier in web lol.
Some questions for you guys:
1) Do you have any recommendations for a python gui library?
2) What sort of features do you think would be cool in something like this?
The plan is to expand it to be able to be a tool for editing other resource files in the future as well.
Once i get a good baseline of something usable, I'll post up the GitHub repo if it's something you think you'd use/contribute to! ( there's probably heaps of these around already though lol )
