[Eric] Eric4 and interactive PyQwt Plots

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Freitag, 7. November 2008, Darryl Wallace wrote:
> Basically, when using the startup environment script I previously
> mentioned, or using ipython, you can create a window from the
> command-line and the event-loop returns to the commandline and you can
> still access the Qt Object.
>
> So when, for a PyQwt plot, I call plot.show(), the plot is displayed and
> I can continue to modify the contents of that plot (like change titles,
> make the window bigger, etc.) from the command line.
>
> Currently in eric, if I run a script where the end result is displaying
> a plot I can't continue to work from the shell window's command-line
> until I close the plot window.  I would still like to be able to access
> the active plot objects from the shell's commandline, as well as do
> other things.
>
> So, using PyQwt (http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/cli-examples.html)* *I can
> generate a plot.  Do some stuff.. add a new line to that existing plot
> from the command-line after it's already been displayed.  Just some more
> flexibility.
>
> I hope this helps clear things up.  Is this possible?

Not as it is now. I think, IPython is doing something with the Qt event loop. 
You could try to use the console debugger, which opens a console window for 
the program being debugged.

>
> > I think, I don't understand the problem. What do you want to achieve?
> >
> > Detlev



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