Convert GUI App to Real Program - Python to exe to setup wizard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2024
- You've just made a beautiful GUI app with Python - but there's a big difference between creating an app for your personal use and distributing it all across the web, reaching many people who don't necessarily know anything about Python.
In this tutorial, I will show you exactly how to convert your Tkinter, Kivy, KivyMD, PyQT5, or other GUIs into a full-blown professional program! 🤩🤩🤩
The end result is a 😱 SINGLE SETUP FILE 😱 which anyone can download and install on their computer - even your grandmom!!! 👵
We will use Pyinstaller to create an executable file and Inno Setup to bundle it with dependencies and convert them into a setup wizard.
In addition, we will discuss some common errors, how to fix them and how to avoid irrelevant instructions (hint: do we really need to modify the SPEC file? 🤔)
We will briefly tackle licensing (open source, as you may guess 😉), and generating icons.
Please note, this video is designed for Windows developers and users! However, I will cover Linux and Mac as well in some future tutorials... the Mac tutorial is of course inspired by Tom! XDD (but only members of our Discord community will understand the joke, this is how I test if they read video descriptions 😅)
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⏰ Time Stamps ⏰
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00:00 - intro
00:40 - project files and database
01:31 - download Random Recipe Picker (or use your own Python app)
03:29 - install requirements.txt
03:46 - Pyinstaller vs auto-py-to-exe
04:25 - run Pytinstaller builder
05:22 - prep GUI script for Pyinstaller
05:56 - resource path (and important sys._MEIPASS fix!)
08:18 - SPEC file
09:20 - generate software icons
10:04 - convert script and assets to exe file
11:22 - fix Pyinstaller File Not Found Error
12:48 - test executable
13:36 - install Inno Setup
14:17 - convert exe and assets into a setup file
16:39 - license
20:00 - add subdirectories to Inno Setup compilable
21:56 - test setup file on another PC
22:57 - thanks for watching! :)
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📽️ Important Tutorials 📽️
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⭐ Create GUI App with SQLite and Tkinter (Random Recipe Picker):
• Create GUI App with Tk...
⭐ Anaconda for Beginners:
• Anaconda Beginners Gui...
⭐ Convert .py to .exe with auto-py-to-exe:
• Convert py to exe - fr...
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💻 VENV Alternative 💻
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$ python3 -m venv name_of_my_env
$ source name_of_my_env/bin/activate
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🖇️ Tutorial Links 🖇️
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🔗 Random Recipe Picker Repository: github.com/MariyaSha/RandomRe...
🔗 Resource Path Function (Stack Overflow): stackoverflow.com/questions/3...
🔗 PNG to ICO Icon Converter: image.online-convert.com/conv...
🔗 Inno Setup: jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
🔗 Open Source Initiative MIT License: opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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🤝 Connect with me 🤝
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🔗 Github:
github.com/mariyasha
🔗 Discord:
/ discord
🔗 LinkedIn:
/ mariyasha888
🔗 Twitter:
/ mariyasha888
🔗 Blog:
www.pythonsimplified.org
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💳 Credits 💳
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⭐ Beautiful titles, transitions, sound FX, and music:
mixkit.co
⭐ Beautiful icons:
flaticon.com
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Hih, this is a tad too advanced info for me but oh my gosh how much I CANNOT WAIT to use this tutorial in real life!!! 😍 Thank you, Mariya! 😍 I'm only half way through but I'll finish watching the tutorial now just to see how much I understand already. Comparing oneself to the past versions of oneself is the best way too see the progress! Keep it up everyone!! 😁😁👍
And Mariya, please keep up the amazing work! Our support for you is an infinite loop after clicking 'run'! 👾🎵🥳
Thank you so much for the 🤩 INCREDIBLE 🤩 comment and for letting me know it's a bit advanced!!! I definitely agree it's not as beginner friendly as the rest of my videos - but I'll make sure that by the time you come back to watch the rest of this tutorial, you will have all the background to understand what we're doing! I have 2 solutions, and one of them is super quick! 😉
I think the biggest learning curve here is creating the GUI app itself (and maybe installing Python libraries from a requirements file... It's the first time we do it on this channel, and now when I think of it - I could have simplified it further 🙃).
⏰⏰⏰ QUICK SOLUTION ⏰⏰⏰
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1️⃣ step 1: Start with a very simple GUI app that doesn't involve a database at all! This is the first app I've ever made (I had no idea what a GUI was before... it's something that was requested on the channel and I went down the rabbit hole as a result 😀):
⭐ Create a simple GUI app with Tkinter:
th-cam.com/video/itRLRfuL_PQ/w-d-xo.html
❗You may need to adjust "filetype" tp "filetypes" in line 24:
file = askopenfile(parent=root, mode='rb', title="Choose a file", filetypes=[("Pdf file", "*.pdf")])
An alternative simple GUI app tutorial (with a much bigger font hahaha) that you may like even more is my Trivia Game (it's using nicer GUI library named PyQT5 😉):
⭐ Create a simple GUI app with PyQt5:
th-cam.com/video/9iZLDnW_vwU/w-d-xo.html
And instead of creating a special database, we fetch data directly from the internet using a beginner-friendly site named Open TriviaDB:
⭐ PART 2 - Get Trivia Questions for GUI app with PyQt5:
th-cam.com/video/r2ZN0mTDnPc/w-d-xo.html
BTW - that's the same app we have converted in the auto-py-to-exe tutorial I mentioned at 03:46 😊
2️⃣ step 2: follow the instructions of the current tutorial with the notes:
- at 15:30 click "add files" instead of "add directories" to include logos.
- at 20:00 no need to add special subfolders because in both cases the logos are in the exact same folder as the app itself.
⏰⏰⏰ LONG SOLUTION ⏰⏰⏰
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1️⃣ step 1: learn about SQLite, which has a very nice beginner-friendly database engine:
⭐ SQLite Basics:
th-cam.com/video/Ohj-CqALrwk/w-d-xo.html
❗you'll need to add connection.commit() after each data insertion command, I've accidentally skipped it in the tutorial above 😅
2️⃣ optional step 2: practice your SQLite skills and learn how you can generate databases by automatically copying them from the web (what we call Web Scraping):
⭐ Web Scrape Databases with SQLite and Mechanical Soup:
th-cam.com/video/MkGQmZoMuRM/w-d-xo.html
This once includes the connection.commit() command I've mentioned above 😉
3️⃣ step 3: follow my Random Recipe Picker tutorial:
⭐ Create GUI App with SQLite and Tkinter (Random Recipe Picker):
th-cam.com/video/5qOnzF7RsNA/w-d-xo.html
4️⃣ step 4: follow the instructions of the current tutorial as now you have all the tools required to understand it 🥳🥳🥳
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In terms of the rest of your comment (sorry, I had to start with the instructions because I'm assuming other folks will struggle with the unusually advanced level 😅)
We have incredibly similar life views! I couldn't agree more with comparing to the past versions of ourselves! I think that's the reason why it took me so long to finish this tutorial hahahaha, I wanted it to be better than anything I've ever done before 😅😅😅 We don't necessarily need to be the best, somebody will always be better, smarter or faster (well... unless we're Elon Musk or Michael Jordan or something hahaha) - but there must always be progress! our biggest competition should always be our past self, otherwise, life will be very stressful 😊
And sorry about the super long comment hahaha... I multiply your infinite loop times millions! I wouldn't have the motivation and drive to keep doing this without the incredible support of the viewers' community! And actually - I wouldn't know so much about programming if experienced developers weren't kind enough to share their expertise with me in the comments. I may be the presenter behind this channel, but I can only take a fraction of the credit. I've learned more from viewer comments than from University and hopefully, this comment will help lots of talented aspiring developers such as yourself on their exciting journey! 🙂🙂🙂
OK, I think I accidentally wrote a book instead of a comment hahahaha... I'll go rest now XDDDDDDDDDD
Thank you so much once again!!
Could you maybe make a oop video where you incloud sql, some graphs and gui. I find that very usefull 😊😊
This was the most complete video on this topic I have found. Appreciate the great structure and clear instruction!
It's complex, but you explain it so well that it seems very simple. I love your videos!
I can't thank you enough for this video. Like lots of python developers I've been tearing my hair out trying to find a simple way to deploy python scripts in a way that my non pythonic coworkers can utilize them. This works so well, and it's a very familiar workflow for them to just install it like any other program. Also thank god you mentioned MEIPASS2 or I might have given up before finding the answer to that error.
I have been following your tutorials for a very long time. All are very helpful and really python simplified. Thank you and good luck.
Thank you so much, Alp!!! Glad you enjoy my videos!! 😃😃😃
I am speechless. What an amazing and big job done for this tutorial!
Hi Marija, I just recently discovered your channel.
I often have problems evaluating and understanding documentations and plain text for myself, so I love that you visualize a lot in your videos!
The simplicity of the examples is incredibly important to understand the principle of things.
With this knowledge, it is then easier to understand complex explanations afterwards.
You have a gift for teaching and illustrating!
Besides that, it makes me very happy to see other women succeed in the IT world.
- A fellow Maria :)
Yeeeyyy!!! Welcome aboard!!! I'm so happy you enjoy my tutorials and thank you so much for the amazing comment, Mary!!! 😀😀😀
In what seems to be a previous life, I was a graphic designer, and I found that icons or symbols are much more effective than words! My boss, who trained me, used to say "Mariya, it's just a sign, nobody reads it!" and even though it was a joke - it very accurately describes reality!
Our mind tends to remember things that stand out and seeing someone talk is not very memorable (unless they talk about something extraordinary!... but I don't think GUI apps fit that category hahahaha 😅)
If find that adding some visual illustrations provides an extra layer of explanation, better captures our attention and as a result - helps us remember 🙂
I really appreciate your feedback and I'm super glad you find my examples simplistic!!! 😊
Maria's of the world unite!!! 💪💪💪
@@PythonSimplified yes! i 100% agree. Especially for things you can't see, which we have a lot in the IT world, like processes that happen 'behind the scenes'. It's essential for someone like me to see visuals. Keep up the amazing videos and know all your work is so appreciated!
@@PythonSimplified Hi Maria, I wonder if you could build a gui program that locks an exe app with given password by user and when user wants to enter that exe app, a form should asks for user a password to enter that exe app?
You have a talent to present the information very clearly and easy to understand. I wish you had an expertise beyond Python.
Hello Mariya, I just discovered your channel today and I love how descriptive you are with every necessary task! I've been developing fun software projects over the years as more of a hobby but mainly in Visual Basic 6.0. I figured it was time to start learning Python since it appears to be the most popular and I've found that in theory it is much easier than VB6.0 the way it is structured, but it's still going to be a learning curve for sure! I believe your content will help me learn Python quickly and I would just like to say thank you very much, and keep up the great work! I Liked and Subscribed! :)
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This is gold, Mariya! I haven’t tried it yet, but I e seen plenty of people frustrated with building up the app. I’ll definitely give it a try!
Thank you Mariya.
I'm a big fan, I love the way you deliver your tutorials.
Thank you for creating such an informative and helpful video on converting GUI app to a real program using Python to exe to setup wizard. Your explanation was clear and concise, and the step-by-step demonstration made it easy to follow along.
I was able to successfully convert my own GUI app using the PyInstaller and Inno Setup tools, and I couldn't have done it without your guidance. Your video has been a valuable resource for me and I appreciate the time and effort you put into creating it.
Once again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us. Looking forward to more informative videos from you in the future.
Thank you so much! I've been struggling with this for days and then I follow your video set by step and it works perfectly!
It's hard to get this sort of content, great job, please keep making more on this, there are a lot of people who are very interested in distributing their own Python applications!
Every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Thank you very much for all your efforts and for sharing your knowledge! 🌹
Awesome video. Like code you are so concise. No distractions and you cover a lot of ground. Having watched hundreds of programming videos I must say this was the best I’ve seen. Please keep making projects!
Thank you so much for the incredible feedback!! Super happy you like my work! 😀😀😀
This is perfect! I have some python programs I've been wanting to distribute and now I have the way to do it. Thank you for your excellent tutorials, you are such an awesome teacher. :)
Yeeey! I thought you might find it useful! 😉
Thank you so much for the awesome comment and let me know how everything turned out! 😊
Found a great channel where the presenter shows each step in details. Subbed, liked and commented.
Only recently discovered your channel, thank you so much for the tutorials, you are my favourite Python channel from now on !!👍
Yeeeyy!!! Super happy to hear, Paul!! Thank you so much and welcome aboard! 😃😃😃
Thanks for this extremely useful upload. You have a very positive outlook, a trait that's always nice to see and clearly helps with viewer engagement. Well done.
This year it was my 1st year in Computer science and we did Python these feedback you give is amazing thank you in advance I learn new things everyday now on holidays.
what an awesome tutorial i have seen alot of tutorials on this but i have to say this is by far the most in depth concise tutorial that i know of to date i salute you
Thanks for the turtorial!! ☺️
I tried doing it by myself a few years ago - I failed miserably. Haha. So, I got an idea about the hard-work you would have to put in to make this all work. My God!
Hi Mariya. Thanks so much for this video. I just installed and run my app in my second pc and everything went perfectly. I was so happy to see it running. Thanks again
Thank you so much, I am developing a warehouse app and didn't find a tutorial for people like me. Thank you!
Congratulations Mariya, your explanation is very clear.
I wish I could learn Python and go as deep as you go.
This is the most helpful video I have ever watched since I started programming.
It is too good to be true to see a person on youtube making things simple for people. I was stuck on creating a setup wizard until i found your video and the way you explained really touched my heart! Thanks BTW Can i send you my setup wizard so you can play my game! Please let me know if i can!
Milady ill slay the entire planet for you. bowing down to your extreme knowledge and experience
Really got my python skills to another level 😀 THANK YOU!
Mariya, You always have the best videos/tutorials. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Been searching everywhere for a proper way to package to exe file with installer. Found your useful video.
Holy cow this was super helpful and well explained. Thank you so much!
Okay , thank you for this turotial. Yout really did a wonderfull job, and the part where you fix one-by-one the problems is actually the best so that new guys (like me) learn to follow a process of fixing!!!!
Today I found your channel, watched the video and I liked you - I subbed, and commented (which I do rarely). I am a beginner Python learner but you make a complicated task look simple to understand and very enjoyable. Indeed! Python Simplified. Thanks, Maria for your efforts and that is much appreciated.
Thank you for the incredible comment, and welcome aboard!! 😃😃😃
Best of luck on your Python journey! 💪
Aunty I love the way you are curious like me self, that's the question I asked me self always, but today I got the solution from you. God bless you so much
Like your spirit, been watching you off and on for a year. Good stuff 👍
Thank you so much Jim! :)
@Marija, thanks so much, this is a video that cannot be lost. Your channel is amazing.
You are a gem, this was fun to watch!
I have never seen a tutorial that is so detailed and even inclusive of so many different scenarios that makes me save hours worth of time researching to debug on my own. tysm!!!
Very nice, a real gem to add to the toolchest of Programming the Computer for Fun and Profit.
Thanks , i made a weather app using tkinter and i have created a setup file for it using this video.
Thanks for this wonderful video .
All the best for the future. ❤❤❤❤
Hi Maria) Thanks for the useful video. I haven't programmed for 7 years and the last time I did it was in Pascal... And now I had to go back to this unpredictable track of programming errors, including errors when packing python code into an .exe executable. By the time I watched your video I had already remembered how to communicate with a respected personal computer, python is very simple, so with mastering the language had no particular problem, although I forget it as quickly. Already wrote the first version of the program, it's a program to summarize the graphs given by the points x and y on the Cartesian coordinate plane, it turns out that Microsoft Excel has no such action.
So what I wanted to write about, when packing the .py file into an .exe I also had a problem! I solved it myself, but who knows, maybe I will step on the same rake as you, when updating the program, which came in your way. You did a great job and gave more information so that people like me really have less headaches. Thank you again!
P.S.: English is not my native language, I apologize if I wrote somewhere not quite clear:)
Excellent and very informative. I learned so much by your manner of presentation and instruction. This video has helped me better understand and appreciate the next steps in my Dev journey. Subscribed!
Many thanks to you Maria for really useful information. You're the best!🤘
Wowww! Mariya this looks super easy. Well, its rather *you have made it* so easy for me to understand.
Can't wait to use it for my streamlit apps.
Absolutely amazing stuff 😍😍
Bro this is for Kivy, KivyMD, Tkinter type of librabries who create GUI's, not for something like streamlit which gives you a website
@@animemespirit1871 ohhh!!!
Thanks for letting mW know that 😔
Nice job , you explain it very well , i'm french and it's not easy for me to understand the english tutorials but not with you , continue to speak like that it's wonderfull .
Congrats for this awesome tutorial. I've learned a lot from it. Thank you!
I cannot wait to get to this point. Working on my project.. fun times.
This is hype! Was looking forward to this one!
Very helpful...for a long time I was looking to build an app like this. Thank you.
Great video as everyone Maria does. Great teacher. Thanks. By the way, her talking is very well understood by non spoken english people.
Fun stuff! this is exactly what I needed for a project I am working on. Coming from the Linux ecosystem, there we package apps a little different and as such, this would not have been easy to figure out on my own. many thanks champion!
Thanks for the guide, I didn't know inno setup, thanks to you now I do😄
your videos are just wonderful. Your channel is my go to for all things python
That was a wonderfull turorial for beginners in python GUI's . Good job!!
I dont skip commercial for your videos, so i can help you as you helped me learning❤️
Thank you so much for the incredible support, 4Folds!!! Super happy you find my tutorials helpful!!!😃😃😃
Exactly the content I was looking for. Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. I've used pyinstaller for quite some time, but now I know how to make a setup file, which is quite a bit more professional! Now the only thing I need to figure out is how to add a digital signature to the program :)
At 16:25 -- what you're being asked is if you want to associate file extensions with your program. For example, you might have `.txt` files "associated" with the program _Sublime Text_ so that Sublime Text is used to open files with that extension by default (or is available in the "open with" context menu when right-clicking text files)
So, maybe users of your program want to save recipes to a file. Maybe your program can save them to files with a custom extension like `.recipe` -- then when users click on their `.recipe` files, your application will be launched with the file path provided as an argument.
This tutorial was very very helpful for me. Thank you so much for the video.❤🎉
This is exactly what I was looking for!!!!! thanks!
amazing, I was looking for such tutorial for so long
Hello, I 'm from Brazil, and loved yours tutorial in python. I'm developer that keep a ruby on rails to python and loved this language. Thank you so much for help us
Thank you so much for the lovely comment Marvio!! 😃 I'm super happy you enjoy my tutorials and most of all - the best programming language in the world!! 😁😁😁
Great tutorial! I did get a bit of a jumpscare at 0:17 which was probably editing, but the mouse moving in the background had me think you might be haunted. o_o
Hey, awesome video!! This is the first explanation and way that worked for my self-made program.
A few things I needed to adapt was the requirements.txt file, which can be done when you are in the converter environment inside your folder where your .py program is and then you have to type in "pip freeze > requirements.txt". This creates the requirements.txt file needed for your own program.
Additionally, if you want so save things into your program files without the user to search for a folder itself for example if you use "plt.savefig("figurename.png")" then you also have to use the resource_path() function such that you use "plt.savefig(resource_path("figurename.png"))". Hope this hepls for other that also struggled.
Thanks. Also in my case it was necessary to change single '=' to '=='
Thanks a lot. This knowledge was just not enough for me to write my applications. It remains to deal with license agreements, but I think I can handle this personally.
Super tutorial . Great job. 👋
Vaowww 😍 . This tutorial is perfect. Thanks alot.
You're just the best! Please, keep up the good work
woow hace rato que no veia este canal, gran contenido como siempre, saludos desde colombia
Excellent content as always, thank you!
15:44 you can drag and drop folders, instead of use "Add folder" button.
Thanks for the tutorial 😍
this is very humble as well interesting to watch even though I dont want to use it :)
wonderful video explained very well thanks this is very use full for real life cases , searching for this happy that finally found it keep up , thankyou
Thank U. Very detailed. I am using this procedure to distribute a new educational game for young children.
Wow this is so awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video. The a.datas is used to import files to the temp path that pyinstaller uses, as you put your files in the same folder as exe file, it will be fine in not importing the resources in spec, but if you import, then the files will be in the temp folder and your program will look for them there
You are awesome! I love this tutorial.
Great Video. Very Helpful to the progress of one of my projects. ❤ from 🇱🇰
i couldnt wait for this. Awesome. Super. thankyou so much for your Hardwork. You are one of the best . thank you
You're great! Very helpful, thanks😄
Very good! You are very talented teacher. Great presentation, great pace, clear English a rare combination.
Wow, this is amazingly well-made instructional video, the very best among those I have seen so far. Also exactly what I have ask myself about just today. Looks like TH-cam algorithm can now even read our minds. I'm subscribing and liking, definitely.
(By the way, if I had been told in the early 80s when I, as a teenager, was playing with stone-age programming tools on TI-58C in AOS, that one day I would be learning programming from a girl, I would have considered it a good joke. And here we are, hihihi.)
So funny I was just thinking about setting up one of my scripts to be a .exe and the next day boom this video pops up on youtube. Thanks!
Perfect timing, eh?? 😉
Super happy you found it useful! I was actually supposed to release it a day before but decided to refilm the intro in the last moment 😅😅😅
@@PythonSimplified Same Here! Thanks a thousand times! Would you recommend the same process for a React-Django app? (made front end with react and back end with Django...so wondering what is best for the next step to convert it to a PWA or exe file..wonder what would be the best method)
Great video Mariya!
great video, just what i was looking for, thanks
thank you mariya!!, very helped for beginner
Wow ,Amazing ,So knowledgeable its mind blowing!
Thanks for sharing. Your tutorials are really inspirational. Keep these great videos coming 😃
Thank you so much, Jörgen!!! I really appreciate it!! 😃😃😃
Will do!!! 💪
Hola me gustó mucho tu tutorial en cómo lo explicas y todo me pareció super útil.
Saludos desde México
Loved every bit of this tutorial , thank you so much it helped me alot , subscribed and looking forward to more videos of yours in future
this means alot had no idea it was done this way thanks for help means alot to me
You just combine beauty and intelligence 😅, i just subscribed
In the end I managed to make an executable with my project in python.😊 😁 Thx
So helpful OMG! Thank you!!!
I'm gonna actually do this now with some stuff I have. Never really thought of distribution within an EXE/Setup for the non technical to use my stuff.
hi,mariya sha! your tutorials are very very important for me,i'm just under devolping whatsapp user bot scripts but i'm just kid at 17age love you from sri lanka! 😙
This Video is so helpful thank you❣.
Thank you mariya, i just done setup file ,repeat apk file android buildizer
Awesome GREAT tutorial. ♥♥♥