pygubu-designer UI inresponsive

[pro55b]

I can start pygubu-designer.
The user interface is not reponsive, so I cannot add anything.
After switching to the ttk theme agua(Preview->ttk theme) the ui sometimes becomes responsive and I can add toplevel.
After adding a toplevel and changing some of the property values, the ui again becomes unresponsive.
Then I minimised the pygubu-designer and the maximised and the ui was responsive again util the next thing I change or try to add.
What also sometimes helps to make the UI responsive again is (Preview->Close Top Level Previews)

pygubu and pygubu-designer are installed with pip install in a conda environment (tk 8.6.12 package installed in the evironment).
python: 3.8.18 on darwin
tk: 8.6
pygubu: 0.34
pygubu-designer: 0.38

I have tried with both python 3.10 and 3.8, same behaviour

Running on macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 on apple silicon.

[pro55b]

. /Users/philip/anaconda3/bin/activate && conda activate /Users/philip/anaconda3/envs/pygubu;
(base) philip@philipsacStudio ~ % . /Users/philip/anaconda3/bin/activate && conda activate /Users/philip/anaconda3/envs/pygubu;
(pygubu) philip@philipsacStudio ~ % pip install pygubu
Collecting pygubu
Using cached pygubu-0.34-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.2 kB)
Collecting importlib-resources (from pygubu)
Downloading importlib_resources-6.1.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.1 kB)
Collecting zipp>=3.1.0 (from importlib-resources->pygubu)
Downloading zipp-3.17.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.7 kB)
Using cached pygubu-0.34-py3-none-any.whl (123 kB)
Downloading importlib_resources-6.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (33 kB)
Downloading zipp-3.17.0-py3-none-any.whl (7.4 kB)
Installing collected packages: zipp, importlib-resources, pygubu
Successfully installed importlib-resources-6.1.1 pygubu-0.34 zipp-3.17.0
(pygubu) philip@philipsacStudio ~ % pip install pygubu-designer
Collecting pygubu-designer
Using cached pygubu_designer-0.38-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.7 kB)
Collecting appdirs>=1.4.3 (from pygubu-designer)
Using cached appdirs-1.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (9.6 kB)
Collecting Mako>=1.1.4 (from pygubu-designer)
Using cached Mako-1.3.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.9 kB)
Collecting screeninfo>=0.8 (from pygubu-designer)
Using cached screeninfo-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)
Collecting autopep8>=1.7 (from pygubu-designer)
Using cached autopep8-2.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (17 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: pygubu>=0.33 in ./anaconda3/envs/pygubu/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pygubu-designer) (0.34)
Collecting pycodestyle>=2.10.0 (from autopep8>=1.7->pygubu-designer)
Using cached pycodestyle-2.11.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.5 kB)
Collecting tomli (from autopep8>=1.7->pygubu-designer)
Using cached tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=0.9.2 (from Mako>=1.1.4->pygubu-designer)
Downloading MarkupSafe-2.1.5-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl.metadata (3.0 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: importlib-resources in ./anaconda3/envs/pygubu/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pygubu>=0.33->pygubu-designer) (6.1.1)
Collecting Cython (from screeninfo>=0.8->pygubu-designer)
Using cached Cython-3.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.2 kB)
Collecting pyobjc-framework-Cocoa (from screeninfo>=0.8->pygubu-designer)
Downloading pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-10.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_universal2.whl.metadata (2.3 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: zipp>=3.1.0 in ./anaconda3/envs/pygubu/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from importlib-resources->pygubu>=0.33->pygubu-designer) (3.17.0)
Collecting pyobjc-core>=10.1 (from pyobjc-framework-Cocoa->screeninfo>=0.8->pygubu-designer)
Downloading pyobjc_core-10.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_universal2.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)
Using cached pygubu_designer-0.38-py3-none-any.whl (382 kB)
Using cached autopep8-2.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (45 kB)
Using cached Mako-1.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (78 kB)
Downloading MarkupSafe-2.1.5-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl (18 kB)
Using cached pycodestyle-2.11.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (31 kB)
Using cached Cython-3.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
Downloading pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-10.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_universal2.whl (392 kB)
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Downloading pyobjc_core-10.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_universal2.whl (732 kB)
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Installing collected packages: appdirs, tomli, pyobjc-core, pycodestyle, MarkupSafe, Cython, pyobjc-framework-Cocoa, Mako, autopep8, screeninfo, pygubu-designer
Successfully installed Cython-3.0.8 Mako-1.3.2 MarkupSafe-2.1.5 appdirs-1.4.4 autopep8-2.0.4 pycodestyle-2.11.1 pygubu-designer-0.38 pyobjc-core-10.1 pyobjc-framework-Cocoa-10.1 screeninfo-0.8.1 tomli-2.0.1
(pygubu) philip@philipsacStudio ~ % pygubu-designer
python: 3.8.18 on darwin
tk: 8.6
pygubu: 0.34
pygubu-designer: 0.38

[alejandroautalan]

Hello @pro55b thanks for the report.
I will try to replicate the environment and investigate the issue.

Regards.
Alejandro A.

[ergodone]

I'm running into the same issue. It's pretty much unusable due to how slowly it responds.
% pygubu-designer
python: 3.10.6 on darwin
tk: 8.6
pygubu: 0.34
pygubu-designer: 0.38
2024-03-31 11:16:58.799 Python[79553:8583021] WARNING: Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state! Enable secure coding by implementing NSApplicationDelegate.applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState: and returning YES.

This is also on macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 on apple silicon.