DecimalField: "Field is required" message despite entering a number

[Jan Michalski]

• OS: Ubuntu 23.10 x86_64
• Python Version: 3.11.6
• Gooey Version: 1.0.8.1
• Thorough description of problem
  • Expected Behavior: Setting widget as DecimalField for an argument results in capability of inputting an floating point value.
  • Actual Behavior: After typing a floating point number into a DecimalField, error message saying "This field is required" pops up. This stops the application from going forward to the execution stage. I tried both typing a number and setting it using plus and minus buttons.
• A minimal code example

from gooey import Gooey, GooeyParser

ps = GooeyParser()


@Gooey()
def parse_args():
    ps.add_argument("val", widget="DecimalField", action="store")


parse_args()

args = ps.parse_args()

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By the way, thank you very much for creating Gooey, it's super helpful for me!

[Jens Humrich]

You are missing the - infront of the first argument "-val"

[Sarthak Nikhal]

@Katzmann1983 Is this an issue or can it be made better if we added '-' internally before the arguments? Let me know if I can work on this if it has to be done.

[Jan Michalski]

You are missing the - infront of the first argument "-val"

This was the case, thank you! I think this may be a bug, if DecimalField requires user to put some numbers in, it should not work with optional argument (with "--"), but with positional (i.e. required argument, without dashes).

[Moritz Marquardt]

I have the same issue, but I get This field is required in every case when setting required=True (both with a single dash and two dashes) or using a positional, no matter the number that is put in.