Family Tree

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  Main menu

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  Person form

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  Family tree visualization

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  Save file

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  Open file

Inspiration

I started gathering information about my family a year ago and found it hard to organise and visualise. I decided to participate in this hackathon to create a tool that makes it simple to create family trees and learn pysimplegui.

What it does

It gets input from the user and creates a visual representation of their family tree.

How I built it

I used Python and the libraries pysimplegui and graphviz.

Challenges I ran into

pysimplegui is, in fact, not simple for complex projects. It's impossible to update a window's contents after creating it or create an interactive node-based interface. I had to work around those limitations and learn the proper way to approach this problem.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I used a window-based model for the GUI and created a program with its own custom save file format.

What I learned

I learned how to use pysimplegui and graphviz.

Built With

• graphviz
• pysimplegui
• python