Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot embedded in pyqt

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

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> (6) cd tmp; make pyqt_plmodule.so
>
> This makes the additional module that you need for the pyqt GUI. This module
> will be automatically made under configuration control in near future, i.e.,
> the "make" command in (5) will soon make this module if pyqt is available.

I have now commited changes to cvs so pyqt_plmodule.so is built
automatically. (I also fixed a couple of bugs in the configuration that I
had managed to introduce.)

My overall impression is the pyqt GUI for plplot lacks features (such as
page control) at the moment, but it is a good start, and also it has
astounding speed compared to any of our other GUI's.

So if you want to see this speed for yourself, build and install plplot with
python support like you normally would.  Then simply run the example
prova.py from either the tmp directory or the installed examples directory
(/usr/local/plplot/lib/plplot5.0.4/examples/python on my system).  If you
have pyqt installed, prova.py will work, otherwise it won't be able to find
the qt module and will quit with an error message.  If you get an error
message having to do with libqt, then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the
directory where the libqt library is located (this is due to a rough spot in
the way pyqt is linked but I am preparing a wishlist bug report on that so
hopefully it will go away with later versions). Once you have the GUI
running, type in import xw01 (or whatever xw?? example you want to try).

Feedback, please!  (Especially on features that you would like this GUI to
have.)

Alan