UI

Navigation

GUI Pie is navigated using the arrow keys and the scrolling system, whether it be with a trackpad or a scroll wheel.
Moving left and right, upwards and downwards is achieved using the arrow keys. Moving upwards moves the field of view upwards, thus moving the grid downwards. Similarly, moving right moves the field of view right, moving the grid left.

GUI Pie also supports navigation using a touch screen.

Zooming in is achieved by scrolling downwards. Likewise, scrolling upwards zooms outwards. If scrolling is unsupported on your device, use the page up and down keys to zoom in and out.

Drawing widgets to the grid

Drawing a widget follows a three step process:

1. SELECT your widget from the ribbon

2. DRAW your widget on the grid. This is done with two clicks. Rather than clicking and dragging, click once (and release) to anchor a point on the screen, and move your mouse to where you want it to stretch to. Click once more to finish drawing

3. EDIT your widget's properties. Click on your widget to bring up a panel of properties on the right. Edit those properties, and click "Apply" to edit its properties.

Interface Layout

Title Screen

1. Opens the new screen panel. When clicked, allows the user to create a new screen. See here for more details

2. Opens a file dialogue to allow for a save file to be selected. Allows the user to load a pre-existing screen from a .pygui file

3. Opens the online help in a web browser.

Main Screen

1. Widget buttons. These allow the user to add a widget. By clicking on them, a widget can be drawn onto the grid. See here for further details

2. Close file button. When clicked, the file will be closed and the title screen will be displayed.

3. Undo button. When clicked, the grid will undo one step.

4. GUI properties button. This button brings up the GUI properties panel, which allows the user to alter the propertied of the GUI being designed. See here for further details.

5. Convert button. This button generates the python code for the GUI for your design, being saved to the location specified under the GUI Properties.

Keyboard Shortcuts

F1 - open help

F5 - file recovery; allows for undo history to be recovered from the previous session, in case GUI Pie was closed unexpectedly

F10 - reload screen directly from file, in case file was modified outside of GUI Pie while running.