On Sunday 12 August 2007 3:56:14 am Angel Ezquerra Moreu wrote: > Hi, > > I want to make a small python script that monitors a text file and plots > its contents. This script is meant to run in Windows. The file that is > being monitored has one floating point number per line and new numbers can > be appended to the end of the file at any moment by some external program. > > Therefore the script needs to keep reading the file and if new data is > found, it should update the plot (a simple plot() command will do for now). > To do so the script has an endless loop that tries to read new data and if > it can it plots it and issues a pylab.draw() command. > > I got the script working, (based on the "anim.py" example from the > Matplotlib web page: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/anim.py). > The script updates the plot correctly when new data is added to the file. > However, the figure itself is not really functional. By that I mean that > the figure cannot maximized while the script is running. It is not possible > to change the zoom or use the toolbar either. > > The example script has the same problem (i.e. the figure cannot maximized), > so I'd like to know if there is any way around this or if I should use > something other than pylab instead.
I would suggest not using the pylab interface. Try building off of one of the embedding_in examples in http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib_examples_0.90.0.zip. Also, rather than repeatedly reading your data file to determine when new data is available, I suggest using os.path.getmtime. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
