Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-19 Thread exhuma.twn
On Sep 18, 11:58 pm, Richard Townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:18:36 -0700, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tk is it. I'm really not interested in the others at this point. John Grayson's book 'Python and Tkinter Programming' has a chapter on plotting Graphs and

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-19 Thread W. Watson
I'm just trying to get some feel for how canvas works. I'm about to modify a program I use for meteor work. It uses canvas to display images, and I plan to draw on the image. For example, I plan to draw compass headings on a circle every 30 degrees. Just warming up to the task. exhuma.twn

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-19 Thread W. Watson
Here seems to be another good source. http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/canvas.htm W. Watson wrote: Ah, I missed your link to Chap 11. That looks very helpful. W. Watson wrote: Thanks. I've arranged for an inter-library loan(ILL), and probably will not get his book for several days yet. I've

Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread W. Watson
I'm looking for an example with canvas that produces, say, a complete x-y plot of some data. By that I mean, it should do something like the following: 1. Produce x-y axes. The x-axis should be blue and the y-axis should be green 2. Put a label on each axis (vertical and horizontal text) 3.

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-18, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an example with canvas that produces, say, a complete x-y plot of some data. With what widget set? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm a nuclear at

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread W. Watson
What would be appropriate? What are the choices? I'm pretty new to Python, but am familiar with the XWindow widget set. I think it is available under Python, but if there's a more suitable choice, that's fine. I would think Tkinter would be the simplest choice. Yes, Tkinter would be preferable.

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-09-18, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be appropriate? What are the choices? I'm pretty new to Python, but am familiar with the XWindow widget set. There's no such thing as the XWindow widget set. There are at least 8-10 different X Windows widget sets. The ones that I

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread kyosohma
On Sep 18, 12:23 pm, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be appropriate? What are the choices? I'm pretty new to Python, but am familiar with the XWindow widget set. I think it is available under Python, but if there's a more suitable choice, that's fine. I would think Tkinter would

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread W. Watson
Tk is it. I'm really not interested in the others at this point. Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-09-18, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be appropriate? What are the choices? I'm pretty new to Python, but am familiar with the XWindow widget set. There's no such thing as the

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Townsend
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:18:36 -0700, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tk is it. I'm really not interested in the others at this point. John Grayson's book 'Python and Tkinter Programming' has a chapter on plotting Graphs and Charts. You can even download that chapter as a PDF file:

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread W. Watson
Thanks. I've arranged for an inter-library loan(ILL), and probably will not get his book for several days yet. I've had the book before, but was really unable to get the time to pursue it (the ILL). I have his web site bookmarked. I do not yet plan to buy his book, web or hardbound yet. Maybe I

Re: Tutorial or Example (or Tutorial) of Using Canvas to Produce a Plot

2007-09-18 Thread W. Watson
Ah, I missed your link to Chap 11. That looks very helpful. W. Watson wrote: Thanks. I've arranged for an inter-library loan(ILL), and probably will not get his book for several days yet. I've had the book before, but was really unable to get the time to pursue it (the ILL). I have his web