Re: [Plplot-general] plplot/python/gtk/glade

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Thomas J. Duck wrote:

> Hi,
>
>      There is an example of how to use plplot with python/qt distributed
> with the source.  However, the example, prova.py, isn't documented, so it
> is really hard to tell what is going on (e.g., there doesn't seem to be
> any documentation for plplot_widget etc).
>
>      I was hoping to learn from the qt example and then go on to figure
> out how to use plplot with python/gtk/glade.  Any help or pointers to
> documentation on either topic would be very much appreciated.

The python interface to the plplot C library is one of our most complete front
ends.  Thanks to swig essentially all public API of libplplot is available
from python (with redundant array dimension information dropped from the
argument lists).  To look at a large number of examples using our xwin device,
simply execute

./pythondemos.py -dev xwin

from the *installed* version in $prefix/lib/plplot5.2.1/examples/python. For
more details and also comments on running prova.py read the file
README.pythondemos in the same directory.  That's it for the python
documentation as of now, but I hope to extend the python documentation some
more before the next release.

BTW, prova.py is a simple proof of concept of pyqt and plplot that
Alessandro Mirone (of ESRF) donated some time ago to plplot and which he
hopes to improve as time permits.  For a much more extensive use of pyqt and
plplot (very much buried below a higher-level abstraction) that has been
developed at ESRF see the pydevt project at http://pydvt.sourceforge.net/.

Alan
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