[CentralOH] GUI Tools Survey

[Austin Godber]

Here is a nice client side, javascript visualization library that uses SVG:

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

Here's another one:
http://www.danvk.org/dygraphs/

Austin

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Issac Kelly <issac.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, saying 'canvas' is interesting as well,
> I'm sure that there is an SVG library somewhere, and that could be used with
> HTML5 canvas drawing (AFAIK)
> The problem will be browser support for a few (12?) more months
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The book "Matplotlib for Python Developers" has an entire chapter on
>> embedding Matplotlib output (or generating it in realtime) on the web, using
>> a number of different frameworks:
>> 1. CGI (via Apache's mod_cgi)
>> 2. mod_python
>> 3. Django
>> 4. Pylons
>> For Django (as that's what I'm familiar with) in your view code you use
>> matplotlib.backends.backend_agg.FigureCanvasAgg as your canvas you plot the
>> Figure on.  Then instead of rendering a template response, you create an
>> HttpResponse with content_type 'image/png' (or any of the types FigureCanvas
>> supports) and print the bits to the response (the FigureCanvas takes a "file
>> like" object or a string filename, and HttpResponse is a file-like object
>> (i.e. has a write method)), like:
>> fig = Figure()
>> canvas = FigureCanvasAgg(fig)
>> ... do your plot stuff ...
>> response = django.http.HttpResonse(content_type='image/png')
>> canvas.print_png(response)
>> Only the last two lines are specific to the web framework, everything else
>> is generic plot generation that can be used in a regular GUI, etc.
>> So whatever URL you have defined for the image, it will return the png.
>> -Eric
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:26 AM, James - Atlantix <james at atlantixeng.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The survey is a great idea, and hopefully will provide some very useful
>>> feedback. My main concern about Web based GUI's is the ability to add
>>> rich
>>> math content to them, such as with Matplotlib output. Has anyone any
>>> experience in this?
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