Devlog #3: Displaying each idea in it’s own dedicated card

Hey there! Today, I switched from dumping all he project ideas the AI gave me into one big ScrolledText box, since just a wall of text with no specific layout or format isn’t excactly great user experience.

The main thing I changed, was swapping the text box with a scrollable list of widgets (boxes), with each widget having its own colored background, border, a Label for the project name, one for the description and the extra components and lastly one for the time and cost to make.

Since tkinter frames don’t scroll by default, I had to create a seperate canvas with a scrollbar bound to it and the cards embedded inside it. Because cards are real widgets now instead of just plain text you can use .delete(), when the user clicked the button again to regenerate ideas, it also had to clean up the previous cards before drawing the new ones, since otherwise all the ideas would just pile up one after the other.

I ran into quite some bugs along the way, such as small syntax errors and typos, which I used AI to help me debug.

Next time I’ll probably add some buttons for each card, such as a “copy idea” or a “build this one” button. That’s it for now, see you on the next devlog!