Re: [Plplot-general] plplot/python/gtk/glade

[Thomas J. D. <to...@fi...>]

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Hi,

     Thanks, Alan.

     I am aware of pythondemos.py, and have used them extensively in
learning plplot.  What I'm hoping to do is build a gui around my plplot
program using gtk/glade via python.  I have seen hints that this may be
possible -- there is a gnome canvas driver, and prova.py seems to be an
example of how to build a gui using qt.  However, I have no idea how to
get a gnome canvas widget from plplot, and there is no internal
documentation to guide me through prova.py.

     I'm hoping that there are some simple examples out there somewhere.
One key seems to be this plplot_widget module.  I would rather not have to
read the sources to try to figure out what's going on, but that may be
necessary.  I thought I would ask first.

     Perhaps building a gtk/glade interface for plplot programs
is possible, but nobody has worked it out yet.  In that case, I can give
it a try, although it will probably take me some time.  Let me know what
you think.

Cheers,
Tom

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Thomas J. Duck wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >      There is an example of how to use plplot with python/qt distributed
> > with the source.  However, the example, prova.py, isn't documented, so it
> > is really hard to tell what is going on (e.g., there doesn't seem to be
> > any documentation for plplot_widget etc).
> >
> >      I was hoping to learn from the qt example and then go on to figure
> > out how to use plplot with python/gtk/glade.  Any help or pointers to
> > documentation on either topic would be very much appreciated.
>
> The python interface to the plplot C library is one of our most complete front
> ends.  Thanks to swig essentially all public API of libplplot is available
> from python (with redundant array dimension information dropped from the
> argument lists).  To look at a large number of examples using our xwin device,
> simply execute
>
> ./pythondemos.py -dev xwin
>
> from the *installed* version in $prefix/lib/plplot5.2.1/examples/python. For
> more details and also comments on running prova.py read the file
> README.pythondemos in the same directory.  That's it for the python
> documentation as of now, but I hope to extend the python documentation some
> more before the next release.
>
> BTW, prova.py is a simple proof of concept of pyqt and plplot that
> Alessandro Mirone (of ESRF) donated some time ago to plplot and which he
> hopes to improve as time permits.  For a much more extensive use of pyqt and
> plplot (very much buried below a higher-level abstraction) that has been
> developed at ESRF see the pydevt project at http://pydvt.sourceforge.net/.
>
> Alan
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>
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>
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