We've done some experiments with Enthought Traits at various times to address this issue. There were always various obstacles to making it work, but it may be worth another look. Traits has its nice auto-built property editors (that may address your request), but it would also address one of my long-standing niggles that properties of graphs are often checked far too late and the error messages presented to the user are very obscured because of it.
Of course, all that is a major undertaking -- basically rewriting all the getters and setters on the artist classes to use traits -- but I could see it having quite the payoff in the end. Mike João Luís Silva wrote: > Paul Kienzle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What's the status of interactive property editors for mpl graphs? >> >> I would like something that would allow me to change properties such >> as the size and position of the graph, grids, scales, ranges, colors, >> symbols, line styles, fonts, etc., and add annotations. Some of this >> already exists, but allowing users to enter specific values will need >> an underlying widget toolkit. >> >> Does anybody have anything that I can build on for wx? >> >> > > I though about making such a program but concluded it would be a major > undertaking. I considered using GTK because that's what I use, but > otherwise any toolkit will do. I still have some major unresolved design > issues to implement such an application: > > - How would the state of the editor be saved? In a new file type (in > json for example)? Is there any standard format for this? If it was > feasible I'd like to import and export small python scripts, but the > import capabilities seem unlikely. > > - Mpl is very flexible (just look at the gallery). Would the editor be > limited to a subset of the capabilities or the objective would be to > take mpl to the limit? Including subplots? and heterogeneous graphics? > The interface could get very complex very quickly indeed. > > - I seem to recall an open source graphics application along these > lines, but can't remember its name (maybe SciGraphica). > > If someone is working on such a thing, or if you want to make one I > could tinker a bit, but I really don't have enough time to start a major > application. BTW I'm not a mpl developer, just a satisfied user :) > > Regards, > João Silva > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and > easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development > software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. > Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
