I feel the same way.  However, you might want to look at the 
floatcanvas module and FloatCanvasDemo.py that come with the wxPython  
distribution.  I've found it a very useful starting point for data 
plotting scripts, especially if you are interested in cartographic 
transformations. It utilizes the numeric package to speed up the 
plotting and manipulation of data and provides a nice GUI right out of 
the box. Chris Barker is the author and maintainer of this module and I 
suspect that, like many of us, he doesn't have time to write thorough 
documentation.

Regards,

Larry

On Jun 16, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Louis Pecora wrote:

> I'd like to use wxPython to open some simple windows and draw/plot
> figures from data.  But learning this apparently nice GUI has been
> haphazard.  I've looked over documention that comes with the
> installation and it appears incomplete.  Suggestions in the docs are to
> look to the examples and demos, but cheeze there's more there than I
> ever want to know and in no particular order.  I had to scroll through
> two files of foreign (to me) code to find that
> self.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE") will make my window background white.
>
> Can anyone recommend a source of documentation (preferably indexed)?  
> Or
> even a listiing of where to find things like defined colors (uppercase,
> apparently), events?  I understand the EVT_PAINT idea, but when/what 
> are
> they called and what are the possible events I can bind a function to?
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers.
>
> I know some of you might recommend matplotlib for what I want, but I
> looked at it and it will not serve my purposes.
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>
> Lou Pecora
>
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> Naval Research Lab
> Washington, DC  20375
> USA
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