[PyQt] Building a GUI around, or embedding a visualization tool into a GUI?

[toks adebonojo]

Gary,

I will look for this book. Hopefully there will be a section or some
information about visualization tools.

Thanks for your help.

Toks.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM, garyr <garyr at fidalgo.net> wrote:

> I found the book "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" by Mark
> Summerfield to be very helpful.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "toks adebonojo" <adebonojo at gmail.com>
> To: <PyQt at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:21 AM
> Subject: [PyQt] Building a GUI around,or embedding a visualization tool
> into a GUI?
>
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>
> Hello,
>>
>> I am working on a GUI to execute a trajectory optimization tool called
>> OTIS
>> (Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation:
>> http://otis.grc.nasa.gov/background.html) and want to pipe the output
>> from
>> this tool to an orbit visualization tool called CELESTIA (
>> http://www.shatters.net/celestia/).
>>
>> I am working on the first part (running the GUI to execute the
>> optimization
>> tool), but I have little experience with visualization tools and OpenGL,
>> and am not even sure whether I am going to be able to build this GUI
>> around, or embed CELESTIA into it.
>>
>> I started by downloading PyQt4 and looking at documentation to see which
>> widgets I can use, but the topic is virtually a new language to me. I am
>> wondering whether anyone has an idea if what I am trying to achieve is
>> feasible with PyQt4, and if so, where do I start.
>>
>> I have enough of an idea now of how to use PyQt4 that I just need some
>> hints or general concepts, at least enough to get me started. I appreciate
>> any insights or advise anyone might have on this topic. Thanks and all the
>> best to everyone.
>>
>> Toks.
>>
>>
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