Christopher Barker ha scritto:
Matplotlib is a plotting library -- it's not a gui development lib. I'd
think about using a tool designed for the job. I don't know what you
want the graphics of your game to look like, but depending on that, some
suggestions:
PyGame -- good for fancy raster graphics, not so good if you have a need
for other GUI elements -- all the typical controls, text boxes etc.
TkInter -- it has a Canvas people like a lot that gives a lot of
flexibility.
wxPython -- The wxPython FloatCanvas (full disclosure -- it's my baby)
could probably help you out a lot here, if you're dealing with vector
graphics, and particularly if you want zooming and panning.
I'm sure you could do it with pyGTK or pyQT also.
Deciding between all these options is hard, they all have their
strengths. What's best for you is a function of what the needs of your
app are, what your future needs may be, what platforms you need to
support, and taste.
Even if MPL is a perfect fit for your graphics, if you get beyond a
basic "calculate and plot" app, you'll probably want to use MPL embedded
in a GUI toolkit, TK, GTK or wx.
I fully endorse what it's said here. I only want to add: Don't let
yourself confused by the fact that most MPL documentation makes
references to Pylab. This is a really confusing aspect that I've already
pointed out in this ml. MPL is a fully featured Python plotting library.
It is conceived (also) to be used inside a fully featured GUI app, and
addons like wxMPL make the merging quite painless. Pylab is a Pythonic
interactive environment that makes use of MPL and it's good for people
that already have confidence with python AND want an interactive
environment for quick scripts and interaction à là Matlab. But MPL is
*much more* than Pylab.
m.
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