AppSite

A Tkinter-based desktop application for creating blog posts with a simple WYSIWYG-like workflow. It integrates image handling, templating with Jinja2, and project file management with export capabilities.

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Features

• Graphical user interface built with Tkinter
• Project management with temporary (temp/) and export (exp/) directories
• Jinja2 templating with external template files in templates/
• Image resizing and format conversion using Pillow and python-resize-image
• Export workflow to generate a publishable static blog post
• Basic error handling and recovery dialogs
• Object-oriented architecture with clear module separation

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Project structure

appsite/
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── templates/            # Jinja2 templates
│   ├── post_header.jinja
│   └── post_footer.jinja
├── needs/                # existing resources (css, js, html, etc.)
│   └── ...
├── resources/            # static assets
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   └── AppSite.png
└── src/                  # source package
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── constants.py
    ├── logging_config.py
    ├── project_files.py
    ├── popups.py
    ├── app.py
    └── main.py

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Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Tkinter (usually included in standard Python installations, on some Linux distributions install python3-tk)

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Usage

From the project root:

python -m src.main

The application will launch in a windowed mode. From the start screen you can either create a new project or open an existing one.