Visual designer

Pyzed Design is a form editor in the spirit of Visual Basic, the WinForms designer in Visual Studio and Qt Designer, built with Pyzed itself. You draw a window with the mouse, set properties in a grid, double-click a control to write the code of its event, and press F5 to run it with all its logic.

uv

Windows, macOS and Linux

uv run pyzed design login.pzform        # open (or create) a form
uv run pyzed run login.pzform           # run it, no designer needed
uv run pyzed run login.pzform --reload  # ...and update it every time the form or its code is saved

pip

Windows, macOS and Linux

pyzed design login.pzform        # open (or create) a form
pyzed run login.pzform           # run it, no designer needed
pyzed run login.pzform --reload  # ...and update it every time the form or its code is saved

python

macOS and Linux

python3 -m pyzed design login.pzform        # open (or create) a form
python3 -m pyzed run login.pzform           # run it, no designer needed
python3 -m pyzed run login.pzform --reload  # ...and update it every time the form or its code is saved

Windows (PowerShell)

py -m pyzed design login.pzform        # open (or create) a form
py -m pyzed run login.pzform           # run it, no designer needed
py -m pyzed run login.pzform --reload  # ...and update it every time the form or its code is saved

Everything about it now lives in its own manual, Pyzed Design:

Topic	Page
The window and its areas	Overview
Placing, moving, aligning, snapping, the outline	Toolbox and canvas
The property grid, lists and tables	Properties
Panels, flex rows and columns, grids, anchors	Layouts and containers
The Style section, the color picker, themes	Styles and themes
Events and writing handlers	Events and handlers
Completion, diagnostics, language servers	Code editor
F5, the debug console, hot reload	Running and the console
uv projects, dependencies, ruff, ty, git	Projects
Reusable components	Component designer
New forms, templates, .pzform files, scripting	Files, templates and scripting
Menus, the command palette, docks	Menus and commands
Every shortcut	Keyboard shortcuts
Preferences	Settings

Debug console

See Running and the console.

Panels

See Panels and docks.

Code editor

See Code editor: completion, diagnostics, code lens, folding and the ty and ruff language servers.

Telemetry

See Settings → Telemetry.

Components

Common: Label, Heading, Button, Text box, Text area, Check box, Switch, Radio group, Drop-down, Slider, Number box, List box, Link and Search box. Containers: Panel, Group box, Card. Layout: Flex row, Flex column, Grid, Spacer. Navigation: Tab bar, Segmented. Display: Progress bar, Badge, Chip, Callout, Avatar, Key binding, Stat, Chart, Table, Image, Icon, Markdown, Spinner, Divider and Timer.

To add your own, see Files, templates and scripting and the component designer.

How it is built

See Files, templates and scripting → How it is built.