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Adventures in Imagineering — Getting GUI

Fahim Farook
3 min readSep 10, 2022

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The new GUI

I previously talked about how I had been working with Stable Diffusion and that I also was creating a GUI for the image generator. Well, I re-wrote the GUI again since I wasn’t happy with how the previous version worked 😛

The thing that annoyed me the most was that wxPython sliders had no way to display floating point values. So, when a setting like guidance had to go from -15 to 30 with 0.1 intervals (just to be really picky), I had to actually set the slider to go from -150 to 300 and then divide the user setting by 10 afterwards. It just seemed too annoying!

So I re-wrote the GUI again in tkinter and while I was at it, added some features to make it more useful. I finally got the first iteration of the GUI complete, with the features I wanted, and so decided to release it publicly so that others can use it too!

First, here’s a screenshot of the latest version of the GUI:

Second, here’s the list of features:

  • You can choose between generating via just a text prompt or a text + image prompt, but the image prompting is currently broken for Apple Silicon — works on other platforms — since there appears to be…

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Fahim Farook
Fahim Farook

Written by Fahim Farook

CEO and head iPhone tinkerer at RookSoft. Mad coder and tech editor. Author of a couple of books on iOS development.

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