Create GUI for RPi

Hi all,

I need to create GUI for the raspberry pi3 and I do not know where to start.

What I prefere is to use something like visual basic or visual studio.

I need advice of how to do it, I have seen that it exists Lazarus that can run natively on RPi, but it is supposed to work on Pi1.

Would you mind suggesting me which possibilities I have? Of Course, cross-compile can be an option, but I prefer no to make a complicated setup by now, so cross-compiling It would be nice if it is under Win10 (the OS running on my laptop)

Regards,

Miguel

clem57 over 9 years ago

Try Qt with Python. I believe balearicdynamics is very good in the area and can give you a leg up.
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mconners over 9 years ago

You may want to take a look at mono, I'm not sure how much of the UI stuff has been ported, but that would allow you to develop in visual studio and run on the pi. You may have to build again on the pi, but it's easy.

Home | Mono

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mconners over 9 years ago in reply to mconners

I just checked, I was able to compile a .cs file on the pi, and run it on my x86 ubuntu box without recompiling, so if it is a .net program, you may not even need to recompile.

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rsc over 9 years ago

You can run Windows 10 for IOT on the Pi and compile your programs on your laptop using Visual Studio.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/windows-10-for-iot/
There is also a LabView interface for the Pi now called LINX
https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/doku.php?id=blog:users:makerhub:2016-04-07-linx-3
You can also use TKinter with Python
Scott
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mconners over 9 years ago in reply to mconners

Just for fun, I copied that same .exe to a win 10 box and ran it without recompiling also

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gihu over 9 years ago in reply to rsc

In the win10iot way, I have just found this:
Raspberry PI 2 and Windows 10... SPI, ADC and GUI Display
form Robert Peter Oakes

I will wait to know more options, but I think I will try this one.
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balearicdynamics over 9 years ago

Hello Gihu,

The choice of Qt (that in my opinion is a good choice, obviously), is an alternative. There are also other options almost good and well supported by the Raspberry PI like Kivi (also good for the touch 7inches LCD for the PI). But IMHO what you should for sure forget is Visual Basic and Visual Studio family.

Enrico
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gihu over 9 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

Hello Enrico,

Thanks for your suggestions, writed down avoiding forget VB and Visual Studio.
In the end this afternoon I installed mono as mconners suggest. Tomorrow I will 'play'a little bit with it.

Thank you very much,
Miguel
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gihu over 9 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

Hi,

Other question Enrico, Qt can also work like mono, running natively in the RPi, nota cross-compiling on a host linux-machine, right?

Regards,
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Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi,
I would suggest to use Qt4 Designer suite with PyQt library in python as most of the members suggested. earlier I have also wondered a lot for GUI development but Qt4 Designer it became simpler.......you can use use this easily in any linux distros or x86 based OS....it works very well.....with this you go from normal GUI app development to a complex one as well...........
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