Re: [Matplotlib-users] advice on writing an application

[Chris B. <Chr...@no...>]

massimo sandal wrote:
> Now, my dream would be to embed matplotlib in a full WxPython
> application, instead of using pylab

That is probably a good way to go.

> but (1)I have read that it requires to rewrite some basic pylab facilities

As any of us write them, we need to contribute them back to MPL, so that 
one day, everything will be in the OO interface. there will always be a 
couple extra things, like managing where to put your MPL window, but 
you'd want to control that anyway in an embedded app.

> It seems messy 
> to me to learn WxPython and to embed matplotlib in it at the same time 

You are right that that is a bit of a project.
> So, there are two solutions that I'm considering:
> - Using WxMpl or MPlot.

I would say to use one of these for sure.

> What are pros and cons of both wrappers?

I'd love to see this too. It would be great if we could standardize on 
one, full featured, wxMPL solution.

> - Creating a small, pure WxPython application that calls pylab to manage 
> graph operations.

The issue is that pylab expects to manage it's own Frame. You can't have 
two wxPython applications in one process, so they will collide, unless 
you are talking about running a pylab instance in a separate process. 
That would require some kind of inter-process communication, which would 
be more work than figuring out how to embed MPL in wx.

-Chris

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