Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib/Pylab... A Couple Of Problems...

[Matt N. <new...@ca...>]

Hi Andrea,

The pylab interface is generally the non-Class-based approached,
suitable for small, procedural scripts.  Personally, I'd say
this is good for interactive use, 'one-time' scripts, and very
simple uses of matplotlib, but that's just my opinion: it seems
many people use pylab for more demanding apps.

But: you don't need to import pylab at all if you're creating a
matplotlib figure in a wxPython (or other) GUI.  And, for me at
least, toggling the grid and interacting with gui Events work
fine.  

If the embedding_in_wx*.py and the docs aren't enough, you may
find it useful to look at the wxPython plotting widget (MPlot)
I've been working on.  The code is currently at
   http://cars.uchicago.edu/~newville/Epics/Python/MPlot

This provides a simple wxPython Panel (and/or Frame) widget that
has simple plot() and oplot() methods.  This widget responds to
events for zoom, etc and several of the plot attributes (title,
labels, line symbol/color,etc) can be altered through the GUI, 
and you can export plot images and/or use the Printer interface. 

The documentation is scant but there are a couple examples and a
README.  I'm intending to improve the functionality and docs and
have at least one other person interested and helping out on
this.  Anyway, feel free to steal from this (that goes for
anyone else on the list as well!!).  Any suggestions for
improvement would be great.

Cheers,

--Matt