Re: [Matplotlib-users] Showing the plot in the specific location

[Darren D. <dar...@co...>]

On Saturday 23 February 2008 10:49:25 am John Hunter wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:04 PM, sa6113 <s.p...@gm...> wrote:
> >  I could return the output object of the plot as image file , would you
> > please tell me how I have to convert image to QImage in order to use it
> > in my GUI ?
>
> I could, but this is a very poor way to do it.  First, you would not
> be able to interact with your figure (pan, zoom, etc).  2nd, you would
> be using qimage to rescale your plot with the embedded window size an
> this would be far inferior to having matplotlib draw into the
> requested size.  The right way to use this is to follow the example of
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/embedding_in_qt4.py

Yes, please follow the example John pointed out. The qt4agg backend already 
provides a widget that you can embed in your program, an example is in 
embedding_in_qt4.py, it does the conversion to a QImage already, you dont 
need to reimplement it.