Integrating a plot to a wxWidgets user interface
Using Tkinter, we can combine the plotting abilities of matplotlib and a fully featured GUI library. This solution has the advantage of relying on standard Python only. However, a classical argument against Tkinter is how it looks: the user interface has a look and feel of its own, not the look and feel of the platform it runs on.
The wxWidgets user interface is another GUI module for Python, binding the wx library. The wx library exposes a common API to create graphical interfaces on Windows, OS X, and Linux. The graphical interfaces created with wx will have the look and feel of the platform they run on. In this recipe, we will look at how we can interface wxWidgets with matplotlib.
How to do it...
The general idea is very similar to what has been done with the matplotlib/Tkinter integration. matplotlib provides a special wxWidget widget that embeds a Figure
object. Creating and updating that Figure
object works the same way as before, as shown...