Re: [Matplotlib-users] reusing the pylab gui in a custom application (wxpython)?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Vlastimil Brom <vla...@gm...>wrote:

> 2012/7/30 Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>:
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> I'd like to ask about the possibility to eventually reuse the gui of
> >> pylab for showing and manipulating the plots in the custom application
> >> (written in wxpython).
> >> [...]
> >> Thanks in advance for any hints
> >>   regards
> >>  Vlastimil Brom
> >
> >
> > Absolutely! It is one of the things mpl does best. Do a search in the
> online
> > documentation for "embedding codex".
> >
> > I hope that helps!
> >
> > Ben Root
>
> Thanks for the quick response and a useful hint!
>
> I apparently didn't search for the right terms before...
> I turns out, that
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.html
> shows exactly, what I need.
>
> By the way is there a place to propose a small correction of the example
> code?
> namely
>         self.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NamedColor("WHITE"))
>
> causes an error in wxpython 2.9, which removed the "...Color" aliases
> and only knows "...Colour"
> hence:
>
>         self.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NamedColour("WHITE"))
>
> works in wxpython 2.9 and should be backwards compatible too.
>
> Thanks again,
>     vbr
>
>
Thanks for catching that mistake.  Unfortunately, we don't do a good enough
job of keeping up to date on changes in various backends.  The best way to
make sure that gets fixed is to send us a pull request on github.  At the
very least, post an issue report on it.

Ben