A little birdie has told me that someone else is writing a new
comprehensive matplotlib book (I think it would replace Sandros' book).
Last I heard from the birdie, he was most of the way done with the
manuscript. Based on my experience with the edit/review process, I would
guess 2-3 more months to see it finished and published.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Chris O'Halloran cmo...@gmail.com wrote:
That's cool. I just found the book provided the right level of detail for
me to start using QtDesigner with my projects. I can't speak for PyQt5 but
I don't see the concepts have changed much over the past 5 or so years.
Agreed though, if you're brand new to python and are only familiar with
python3 then typing in the code verbatim (python2 style) may cause you
problems that frustrate the learning process.
On 15 April 2015 at 19:49, Christian Ambros ambr...@ymail.com wrote:
No offense, but it really is outdated. Consider that it'll take two years
to do the writing and the lecture work the research material is form 2007
to 2008. We now are in 2015. As you can tell from other books which have
been published between 2013 and a really helpy book from March, 24th 2015
(yes, Benjamin Root wrote it), even they don't cover latest enhancements up
to six month before print, (which might be seen a reasonable since changing
is easy in a digitized world like ours).
A good tutorial for the once, who do not have much experience in this
field (I count myself in with the just one and a half year of experience in
gui programming) is two things, actual up to six month to a year and
straight forward, meaning It tells you what to do and doesn't bother you
with design thoughts, API explanations nor tries to teach you programming.
I have that book in my possession, but it didn't turn out to be helpful
if you do not have the time do read it in whole. If you have the time to
spin freely, you still will have conquered 80% by yourself and because it
is still outdated for pyhton3 and matplotlib 1.4.3 the use is questionable.
cheers,
Christian
--
A little learning never caused anyone's head to explode!
Ein wenig Lernen hat noch niemandens Kopf zum Explodieren gebracht!
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:44 AM, Chris O'Halloran
cmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I recommend this book. It was very helpful to me in figuring much of
this out.
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/matplotlib-python-developers
On 14 April 2015 at 18:14, Christian Ambros ambr...@ymail.com wrote:
Hi Ryan,
wow! This tutorial is one of the best I ever encountered. Nothing is
missing, nothing is cryptic or unclear. What I like best is, that it get's
along without using Qt Designer plugins or something similar strange. It's
a good basis to start. Maybe you should write a book, covering all the
untold things one needs to solve problems like that. I browsed through
plenty of books the last weeks and what really is missing, is a cookbook
about Qt Designer, Glade and wxWidgets and how to fill it with python3 and
it's lib's like matplotlib, pyqtgraph, numpy, sympy etc.
I would buy it right away!
cheers,
Christian
--
A little learning never caused anyone's head to explode!
Ein wenig Lernen hat noch niemandens Kopf zum Explodieren gebracht!
On Friday, April 10, 2015 7:14 PM, Ryan Nelson rnelsonc...@gmail.com
wrote:
Christian,
As it turns out, I wrote a blog post (for my terrible blog) about using
Designer to create a MPL based GUI (
http://blog.rcnelson.com/building-a-matplotlib-gui-with-qt-designer-part-1/).
I was going to write this up for the MPL docs... But it got really long (3
parts), so I just used my personal site. It got so long because this was
the second time I needed to figure this out, and I wanted to make a very
detailed outline for my own future reference. Unfortunately, I don't have
any experience with Qt5, but I imagine things are similar. I think they
just rearranged the locations of some of the widgets, but I'd be curious to
hear your experience. I gave up on PyQtdesignerplugins. I think it makes
more sense to just use a generic widget as the MPL container.
I would be very happy if you had comments for my Qt designer posts.
Ryan
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Christian Ambros ambr...@ymail.com
wrote:
Hi Ryan,
could you write down, as a tutorial, how you built the example with the
qt designer?
In the last hours I read all most everything what can be found on the
issue of getting matplotlib running with pyqt5 and the designer but as you
realized yourself, there is little to be found handy.
I'm stuck at a project, which has to use python3, and pyqt5 and am not
allowed by my boss to fall back to pyqt4 or qt_compat. He wants to make
sure that we use the latest revisions.
So I#m very pleased to read that someone already set food on this
terrain.
Qt5.4.1 is running and I installed PyQtdesingerplugins, in mind that they
