Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question about imshow and matshow

[Antonino I. <tri...@gm...>]

On 3/15/07, Pellegrini Eric <eri...@ya...> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> when using matplotlib, any plot I create is displayed separately from my
> Tkinter application. Is there a direct way to embed the plot created by
> matplotlib in a widget such as a canvas using something like "create_image"
> or something else ?
>
> Currently, the only thing I managed to do is:
> -create my plot with matshow
> -save the figure using savefig (png)
> -embed the png in a canvas using create_image
>
> not very smart, isn't it ?

Definitely not ;). It's simple to embed matplotlib in the common
toolkits. Download the examples tarball from the matplotlib site and
look at the files embedding_in_XXX.py. There are examples for tk, gtk,
qt and wx toolkits.

> Thank you very much
>
> best regards
>
> Eric Pellegrini

  ~ Antonio