Interactive use of DISLIN

[Troy Melhase]

You may want to check PyQwt, which implements technical widgets for PyQt/Qt.  

Be sure to check the screenshots, and try the examples if you can:

http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/



----- Original Message -----
From: andrej_dzerzhinsky at hotmail.com (Andrej Dzerzhinsky)
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:03 am
Subject: Interactive use of DISLIN

> I'm building a scientific app using wxPython to call some C functions
> together with a suitable plotting application that will work 
> within a
> wxPython frame.
> 
> I'd like to plot a spline over several thousand (x,y) points from a
> spectrum, reasonably fast, and be able to zoom in and out of the plot,
> label peaks either automatically or by hand, display and overlay
> multiple data sets and export plots as metafiles.
> 
> Platform independence is also a big plus.
> 
> Examining several of the Python plotting packages (BLT, matplotlib,
> pyplot, hippodraw, DISLIN), so far DISLIN seems to offer the best
> combination of speed and ease of use, with matplotlib coming a close
> second.
> 
> Can anyone comment on whether DISLIN can be made to do the interactive
> things I have mentioned. http://www.openboa.de/srd/node8.html claims
> it can't - is this accurate?
> 
> Or is matplotlib or some other package better for what I want.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
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