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

[Matthias M. <Mat...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

I think I really understand what Christopher expresses with 'you'll get  a 
much better result, and probably less pain'. 
But because I couldn't find such a prompt and I'm not familiar with wxpython, 
I tried to build up my own one (using matplotlib.widgets.button) and run into 
two problems (already posted):
a) When pressing for example 'g', 'l' or 'f' the button gets a grid, a 
log scale or gets full-screen. Can this be turned off?
(subject: skip mpl-axes-interaction during key_press_event's)
b) Some keys seem to be unaccessible: e.g. enter and backspace. The 
backend_(wx|gtk|tkagg).py might have to be modified to handle this.
(subject: additional key events)

Now my question is: Could a prompt be a useful part of matplotlib?

Best regards and thanks in advance for any comments,
Matthias Michler

On Friday 25 May 2007 17:49, Christopher Barker wrote:
> 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