Re: [Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Jianbao Tao
Thank you so much, Anthony. After weighing the options, I decided to go for Tkinter. The major reason for this is portability. BTW, I checked out your website. Those screenshots are quite impressive. :-) Jianbao On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Anthony Floyd wrote: > Hi Jianbao, > > > Do you have

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Anthony Floyd
Hi Jianbao, > Do you have any references, such as screen shots, gallery, examples, or > whatever? I am very curious to see what people can do with matplotlib. If you can find a Windows machine (or a Windows VM) and stomach a 60 MB download, visit http://www.convergent.ca/products/raven/downloads

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Jianbao Tao
Dear Anthony, Thank you so much for your advice. I embedded my response below. Jianbao On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Anthony Floyd wrote: > Hi Jianbao, > > First some context: at the company I work for, we've been using > matplotlib to do much of what you want to do for the past 4 years. We

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Sterling Smith
Jianbao, The one thing I would add to Anthony's response, which is a good summary of what I would say, is that you should look into the animation aspects of matplotlib, and the xdata and ydata attributes of lines/axes for speed in replotting mostly similar situations. I regret having not learn

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Anthony Floyd
Hi Jianbao, First some context: at the company I work for, we've been using matplotlib to do much of what you want to do for the past 4 years. We have created our own application for plotting, interrogating, and manipulating time-series data coming from both simulations and measurements, although

[Matplotlib-users] Development advice needed

2012-10-03 Thread Jianbao Tao
Dear all, As some of you might have noticed, I am asking questions frequently recently, most of which are naive ones. The reason for this is that I recently decided to develop a satellite data viewer with matplotlib, and I am new to both python and matplotlib. Here is a little background of this