feat: Advanced PyQt5 GUI Integration with Dynamic Sorting

docs/README.md

@@ -117,3 +117,4 @@ Creator - [Siddharth Dushantha](https://github.com/sdushantha)
 
 [ext_pypi]: https://pypi.org/project/sherlock-project/
 [ext_brew]: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sherlock
+

sherlock_project/__main__.py

@@ -8,15 +8,33 @@
 """
 
 import sys
+import os
 
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')))
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    # Check if the user is using the correct version of Python
+# First, we check the Python version so that the program gives a warning from the start if the system is incompatible.
+if sys.version_info < (3, 9):
     python_version = sys.version.split()[0]
+    print(f"Sherlock requires Python 3.9+\nYou are using Python {python_version}, which is not supported by Sherlock.")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+from sherlock_project import sherlock
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # If the user did not enter any parameters or typed --gui, then start the GUI
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1 or "--gui" in sys.argv:
+        print("Starting Sherlock GUI...")
 
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 9):
-        print(f"Sherlock requires Python 3.9+\nYou are using Python {python_version}, which is not supported by Sherlock.")
-        sys.exit(1)
+        # To prevent PyQt from giving an error, we delete the --gui parameter that we added ourselves.
+        if "--gui" in sys.argv:
+            sys.argv.remove("--gui")
+
+        # We call the function that will launch the GUI.
+        # (We specifically included the import process here so as not to slow down those who only want to use the terminal.)
+        from sherlock_project.gui_app import run_gui
+        run_gui()
 
-    from sherlock_project import sherlock
-    sherlock.main()
+    else:
+        # We execute the original Sherlock code if the user enters standard arguments from the command line.
+        sys.exit(sherlock.main())
+