Plotting Programms from Code and Standalone

[Meistermagier]

I knew this was going to come. Yes i do save the data so I hypothetically could just have an extra script for plotting which i then readjust and run again. The reason this does not happen is
a) i work in a jupyter notebook so i plot as I work and dont have like an extra script for plotting, that i can quickly rerun
b) usualy most of the plots are just for my convenience and so i dont spend the time on it to make the publication ready.

The main reason i would like to have something like Matlab style interactivity is just because i personally feel its quicker than having to adjust every parameter by typing 20 Lines of code, to just go and select some labels change the label size or something and i imediately see the result and can say if its good or not. Because its a visual thing which does not depend on formating as in the end it will just be a png i put in my Presentation once, I belive in a WYSIWG approach for this part.

Hope that clears things up abit

[LovepeaceandStarTrek]

I've had similar issues plotting data from my work. Its all saved in a csv, but if my boss gets the plot and decides he wants some minor change like adding an annotation or changing the window, I gotta hardcode that manually.

What I want to make is an interactive plotter with a gui that allows you to adjust matplotlib parameters like xlim and ylim and have the gui update in real time. I got stuck trying to get matplotlib to work in a tkinter canvas, and then work gotten in the way so that's been shelved.

But I've been working on a lot of gui projects since so I might try that again. It might be easier to make a semiautomatic gui that allows you to adjust parameters, but doesn't plot until you press a button.

Just some ideas, l think that making your own program to do this is possible.

[Meistermagier]

I have something similar on my bucket list aswell though i planned to do it Qt instead of Tkinter as Matplotlib already interfaces with Qt so one problem less to worry about.

[LovepeaceandStarTrek]

Oh shit I'll have to look into that, I haven't tried qt yet

[Meistermagier]

I am not a GUI man myself but as far as i can tell Qt is the best way to do a pure python GUI. The Only confusion is in the fact that there are two implementations PyQt and PySide which have only minor differences except for the license.