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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook Over 150 recipes to create highly detailed interactive visualizations using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135718
Length 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikhil Borkar Nikhil Borkar
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Srinivasa Rao Poladi Srinivasa Rao Poladi
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Preface 1. Anatomy of Matplotlib FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Basic Plots 3. Plotting Multiple Charts, Subplots, and Figures 4. Developing Visualizations for Publishing Quality 5. Plotting with Object-Oriented API 6. Plotting with Advanced Features 7. Embedding Text and Expressions 8. Saving the Figure in Different Formats 9. Developing Interactive Plots 10. Embedding Plots in a Graphical User Interface 11. Plotting 3D Graphs Using the mplot3d Toolkit 12. Using the axisartist Toolkit 13. Using the axes_grid1 Toolkit 14. Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy Toolkit 15. Exploratory Data Analysis Using the Seaborn Toolkit 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Slider and Button widgets of Tkinter GUI

In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Slider and Button widgets of Tkinter GUI in place of Matplotlib widgets. The functionality of the plot is exactly the same as the previous recipe. The program control flow is still with Matplotlib, and we will still use plt.figure() for invoking the backend and associated widgets. In addition, we will invoke Tkinter's tk.Scale scaler and tk.Button button widgets with associated callback functions, replacing Matplotlib's slider and button widgets, which we used in the previous recipe.

Getting ready

Set up the backend:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('tkagg')

Import the required libraries:

import tkinter as tk...
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