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

[N. V. <mit...@we...>]

Hello Massimo,

> I'm in the way of rewriting in Python from scratch an old matlab data
> analysis program for AFM data. The program should have a quite simple
> GUI with a graph capable of interactive plotting (i.e. clicking on two
> points on a 2d graph and fitting the points in between) and a couple of
> buttons/menus for fit options and graph options. It's a couple of days
> I'm learning matplotlib/pylab and scipy, and they seem powerful enough
> to fulfill my needs.

First of all, why not take a look at an existing solution for AFM:

http://gwyddion.net/

It looks very good and is already very mature.  It provides a plugin 
architecture, a modern graphical interface, is portable and seems to be 
funded as well. However, it can only analyze surface data, and I don't 
know if this is what you meant with '2d graph'.

Best regards,

Niklas Volbers.