✨ define basic example as default, ship it with bundle

Always have something to run.

Author: enryH

.github/workflows/cdci.yml

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
 
   build-executable:
-    name: Build executable - vuegen_gui_${{ matrix.os.label }}
+    name: Build-exe-vuegen_gui_${{ matrix.os.label }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os.runner }}
     needs:
       - test
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build executable
         run: |
           cd gui
-          pyinstaller -n vuegen_gui -D --collect-all pyvis --collect-all streamlit --collect-all  st_aggrid  --collect-all customtkinter app.py
+          pyinstaller -n vuegen_gui -D --collect-all pyvis --collect-all streamlit --collect-all  st_aggrid  --collect-all customtkinter --add-data ../docs/example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook:example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook app.py
       - name: Upload executable
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:

gui/README.md

@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ as the streamlit server and the GUI itself.
 # from this README folder
 pyinstaller \
 -n vuegen_gui \
---no-confirm \
+--noconfirm \
 --onedir \
 --collect-all pyvis \
 --collect-all streamlit \
 --collect-all  st_aggrid  \
 --collect-all customtkinter \
+--add-data ../docs/example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook:example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook \
 app.py
 ```

gui/app.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 import sys
 import tkinter as tk
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import customtkinter
 
@@ -30,6 +31,26 @@
 customtkinter.set_appearance_mode("system")
 customtkinter.set_default_color_theme("dark-blue")
 
+app_path = Path(__file__).absolute()
+print("app_path:", app_path)
+
+if getattr(sys, "frozen", False) and hasattr(sys, "_MEIPASS"):
+    # PyInstaller bundeled case
+    path_to_dat = (
+        app_path.parent / "example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook"
+    ).resolve()
+elif app_path.parent.name == "gui":
+    # should be always the case for GUI run from command line
+    path_to_dat = (
+        app_path.parent
+        / ".."
+        / "docs"
+        / "example_data"
+        / "Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook"
+    ).resolve()
+else:
+    path_to_dat = "docs/example_data/Basic_example_vuegen_demo_notebook"
+
 
 ##########################################################################################
 # callbacks
@@ -96,7 +117,7 @@ def radio_button_callback():
 )
 ctk_radio_config_1.grid(row=1, column=1, padx=20, pady=2)
 
-config_path = tk.StringVar()
+config_path = tk.StringVar(value=str(path_to_dat))
 config_path_entry = customtkinter.CTkEntry(
     app,
     width=400,