Re: Possible enhancement to the wxPython Demos

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 17.34, Nick Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> Absolutely yes this is so awesome
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 1:24 AM Steve Barnes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
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>> It occurred to me that, much as I love the Demos *they really are great*
>> there is one area where they are not ideal for many people - that is
>> plotting & graphing. The existing demos demonstrates nicely the use of the
>> wx pyplot package *but* this is not mainstream for many people who use
>> plotting. The "default" plotting package for many is MatPlotLib and it
>> turns out that with a couple of wrinkles MatPlotLib works fine with
>> wxpython.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I thought that it would be nice to put some demos (lifted from the
>> MatPlotLib examples) into the wxDemos package as personally that is always
>> where I point any fledgling python GUI developers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I have put together a start of such a set of demos but it is not
>> ready for a PR yet but I think enough for a proof of concept and to ask for
>> feedback here. The code so far is available at
>> https://github.com/GadgetSteve/Phoenix/blob/master/demo/MatPlotLib/mpl_demo.py
>> and at the moment is a standalone (i.e. not integrated into the demo). I am
>> thinking to treat it as an external package and have a basics item with the
>> core to using the wx backend and some other demos as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Should I carry on?
>>
>
I would say yes, by all means. As far as I can see, packages like numpy and
Matplotlib are pretty much the norm in many people’s site-packages
installation. The demo itself does not add any dependency, and there’s
quite a few questions out in the web from people stuck in integrating GUI
and plotting stuff. This can only help.

Andrea.




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>> Steve Barnes
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