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This book is intended for Python programmers who want to do more than just see their data. Experience with GUI toolkits is not required, so this book can be an excellent complement to other GUI programming resources.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Introducing Interactive Plotting
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1. Introducing Interactive Plotting
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Installing Matplotlib
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Show() your work
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Interactive navigation
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Interactive plotting
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Scripted plotting
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Getting help
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From front to backend
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The Matplotlib figure-artist hierarchy
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2. Using Events and Callbacks
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2. Using Events and Callbacks
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Making the connection
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The big event
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Breaking up is the easiest thing to do
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Keymapping
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Picking
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Data editing
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User events
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Editor events
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3. Animations
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3. Animations
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A short history
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The fastest draw in the west
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The animation module
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Advanced animations
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Saving animations
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4. Widgets
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4. Widgets
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Built-in widgets
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Third-party tools
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5. Embedding Matplotlib
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5. Embedding Matplotlib
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The revelation
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Through a glass, darkly
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Bars, menus, and sliders – four ways
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Matplotlib in your app
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Chapter 4. Widgets

 

I'm telling you loosen up my buttons baby

But you keep fronting

Saying what you going do to me

But I ain't seen nothing

 
 --The Pussycat Dolls, "Buttons" (2005)

What are widgets? They are doohickeys, you know, thingamajiggers or whatchamacallits. Whatever they are, they are the visual tools by which a user can interact with your application. Humans intuitively interact with their environment through physical objects. It is perfectly natural for us to want to have knobs, buttons, and other contraptions to get things done. Up to this point, most of our interactivity has been through the keyboard or using default interactivity via the mouse. We have not added any knobs or buttons to our application in order to extend its functionality.

A word of warning before we proceed. This chapter will often exhibit feature creep. This will be necessary in order to demonstrate the features that Matplotlib provides; however, it does not mean that...

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