[wxPython-users] Re: Recommend a plotting library?

[Christopher Barker]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-04-11, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> Another option is FloatCanvas. I wrote it, and one of the
>> applications in mind is exactly that -- I use it for
>> triangular meshes with 1-10 thousand points with good
>> performance. It support full zooming and panning, etc.
> 
> That sounds cool.  And I can handle mouse clicks?

It sure does. You can either get where the mouse was clicked in pixel 
coords on screen, "world" coords you draw your objects in, or you can 
bind events to clicking on different objects, so your callback is called 
when the object is clicked.

I use MPL when I want "tradition" plotting: X,Y data with axes, legends, 
etc.

FloatCanvas is designed for general purpose drawing in arbitrary 
floating point coordinates, with zooming, panning, mouse events, etc. It 
does not make axes for you (though you could use it to do so). You can 
also do mapping with it.

-Chris




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