Ok... So I have mangled together something that may sort of work for me....
Basically it is something like a watered down gui - but i'm hoping that it is a class i can import and basically forget about the details of (here's hoping).
I should say though - this is my first attempt at threading OR guis in python - so this code comes with a health warning.
** I'm not going to mark the question as answered though - because i'm sure someone more experienced will have a better solution.
'''
JP
Attempt to get multiple updating of matplotlibs working.
Uses WX to create an 'almost' gui with a mpl in the middle of it.
Data can be queued to this object - or you can directly plot to it.
Probably will have some limitations atm
- only really thinking about 2d plots for now -
but presumably can work around this for other implimentations.
- the working code seems to need to be put into another thread.
Tried to put the wx mainloop into another thread,
but it seemed unhappy. :(
Classes of Interest :
GraphData - A silly class that holds data to be plotted.
PlotFigure - Class of wx frame type.
Holds a mpl figure in it + queue to queue data to.
The frame will plot the data when it refreshes it's canvas
ThreadSimulation - This is not to do with the plotting
it is a test program.
Modified version of:
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Jeremy O'Donoghue and others
License: This work is licensed under the PSF. A copy should be included
with this source code, and is also available at
http://www.python.org/psf/license.html
'''
import threading
import collections
import time
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('WXAgg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWxAgg
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wx import NavigationToolbar2Wx
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import wx
class GraphData(object):
'''
A silly class that holds data to be plotted.
'''
def __init__(self, xdatainit, ydatainit):
self.xdata = xdatainit
self.ydata = ydatainit
class PlotFigure(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self ):
'''
Initialises the frame.
'''
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, "Test embedded wxFigure")
self.timerid = wx.NewId()
self.fig = Figure((5,4), 75)
self.canvas = FigureCanvasWxAgg(self, -1, self.fig)
self.toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Wx(self.canvas)
self.toolbar.Realize()
# On Windows, default frame size behaviour is incorrect
# you don't need this under Linux
tw, th = self.toolbar.GetSizeTuple()
fw, fh = self.canvas.GetSizeTuple()
self.toolbar.SetSize(wx.Size(fw, th))
# Now put all into a sizer
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
# This way of adding to sizer allows resizing
sizer.Add(self.canvas, 1, wx.LEFT|wx.TOP|wx.GROW)
# Best to allow the toolbar to resize!
sizer.Add(self.toolbar, 0, wx.GROW)
self.SetSizer(sizer)
self.Fit()
wx.EVT_TIMER(self, self.timerid, self.onTimer)
self.dataqueue = collections.deque()
# Add an axes and a line to the figure.
self.axes = self.fig.add_subplot(111)
self.line, = self.axes.plot([],[])
def GetToolBar(self):
'''
returns default toolbar.
'''
return self.toolbar
def onTimer(self, evt):
'''
Every timer period this is called.
Want to redraw the canvas.
'''
#print "onTimer"
if len(self.dataqueue) > 0 :
data = self.dataqueue.pop()
x = data.xdata
y = data.ydata
xmax = max(x)
xmin = min(x)
ymin = round(min(y), 0) - 1
ymax = round(max(y), 0) + 1
self.axes.set_xbound(lower=xmin, upper=xmax)
self.axes.set_ybound(lower=ymin, upper=ymax)
self.line.set_xdata(x)
self.line.set_ydata(y)
# Redraws the canvas - does this even if the data isn't updated...
self.canvas.draw()
def onEraseBackground(self, evt):
'''
this is supposed to prevent redraw flicker on some X servers...
'''
pass
class ThreadSimulation(threading.Thread):
'''
Simulation Thread - produces data to be displayed in the other thread.
'''
def __init__(self, nsimloops, datastep, pltframe, slowloop = 0):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.nsimloops = nsimloops
self.datastep = datastep
self.pltframe = pltframe
self.slowloop=slowloop
def run(self):
'''
This is the simulation function.
'''
nsimloops = self.nsimloops
datastep = self.datastep
pltframe = self.pltframe
print 'Sim Thread: Starting.'
tstart = time.time() # for profiling
# Define Data to share between threads.
x = np.arange(0,2*np.pi,datastep) # x-array
y = np.sin(x )
# Queues up the data and removes previous versions.
pltframe.dataqueue.append(GraphData(x,y))
for i in range(len(pltframe.dataqueue)-1):
pltframe.dataqueue.popleft()
pltframe.dataqueue
for i in np.arange(1, nsimloops):
x = x + datastep
y = np.sin(x)
# Queues up the data and removes previous versions.
pltframe.dataqueue.append(GraphData(x,y))
for i in range(len(pltframe.dataqueue)-1):
pltframe.dataqueue.popleft()
#pltframe.dataqueue
if self.slowloop > 0 :
time.sleep(self.slowloop)
tstop= time.time()
print 'Sim Thread: Complete.'
print 'Av Loop Time:' , (tstop-tstart)/ nsimloops
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Create the wx application.
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
# Create a frame with a plot inside it.
pltframe = PlotFigure()
pltframe1 = PlotFigure()
# Initialise the timer - wxPython requires this to be connected to
# the receiving event handler
t = wx.Timer(pltframe, pltframe.timerid)
t.Start(100)
pltframe.Show()
pltframe1.Show()
npoints = 100
nsimloops = 20000
datastep = 2 * np.pi/ npoints
slowloop = .1
#Define and start application thread
thrd = ThreadSimulation(nsimloops, datastep, pltframe,slowloop)
thrd.setDaemon(True)
thrd.start()
pltframe1.axes.plot(np.random.rand(10),np.random.rand(10))
app.MainLoop()
