pltgui

Author: Dr Jie Zheng & Dr Lin-qiao Jiang v0.1 2022 v0.2 2023R

Introduction

Working with a GUI, or adding interaction in plotting, will help a lot in data analysis. However, the common GUI of Python is OS-dependent, while manually adding interactive codes is too complex. A pseudo-GUI tool is introduced in this work. It will help to add buttons/checkers in the graph and assign callback functions to them. The remaining problem is that the documents in this package are in Chinese and will be in English in the next version. This program is published to the PyPI, and can be installed by 'pip install pltgui'.

This package provides a button class and a button controller nager class. A button will be drawn on a specified position with a specified size, text and color. A callback function as the click event handler can be bind to the button. The button controller will help to adjust the axes, and control the message loop, call the event handler when the button is clicked.

Since we are using the native matplotlib plotting, it is OS-independent. Programs using this package has same behaviour on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

一个用matplotlib画按钮到图形界面，用于在科学图像绘制之外额外增加互动操作功能。 目前很简单，只提供了按钮，以及按钮的颜色等（可以当复选框用）。

由于使用matplotlib，而不是专门的图形界面，因此可以在任何具有交互能力的操作系统上使用， 经过实测，在macOS，Linux，Windows上均可以很好地实现互动操作。

Sample 范例

See sample.py and sample-calc.py.

见 sample.py 与 sample-calc.py。