Re: [Matplotlib-users] input text and/or numbers on mpl figure

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

Matthias Michler wrote:
> I tried useing matplotlib as a GUI for my programs. I'd like to incorporate 
> things like Buttons, Sliders, RadioButtons and so on from 
> matplotlib.widgets, but missed a prompt (i.e. a field to input text and/or 
> numbers).

I'm going to advise you to not try to do that. MPL really isn't a GUI 
toolkit, there there are a number of very nice and complete GUI toolkits 
that MPL works just great with. It will require a bit of learning up 
front, but you'll get a much better result, and probably less pain in 
the process. My thoughts:

For Cross platform (Windows, *nix, OS-X): wxPython or pyQT. Tk's OK too, 
but at least until recently, not very native or robust on OS-X.

For *nix only: PyGTK

For OS-X only: Maybe pyObjC, but only if MPL is working OK with the 
Cocoa back-end -- or has development stalled there?

See the "embedding in ..." examples, and be sure to check out wxMPL if 
you want to use wxPython.

-Chris



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