Merging "guidata" and "guiqwt" into a new library named...

[Pierre Raybaut]

Hi all,

Along with some code cleaning (and maybe some API breaks..), I'm thinking of merging "guidata" and "guiqwt" into a single library which would only depend on PyQt, PythonQwt, NumPy, SciPy and Pillow.

(Note that since guiqwt v3, PyQwt has been replaced by PythonQwt which is pure Python [great for portability and easy deployment/installation] and which supports both PyQt4 and PyQt5!)

The new library would be named...

...guiplot ? (graphical user interfaces for image and signal plotting... or something like that)
...scigui ? (scientific graphical user interfaces)
...sigrail ? (signal and image graphing library) -> Python, Monty Python, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"...
...scigrail ? (scientific graphing library) (variant)

Any thoughts?

-Pierre

[Cyril Giraudon]

An idea: SciForm

Cyril.

[Pete Bachant]

What are the main uses of this library? In the past, I've used guiqwt widgets in my PyQt apps for plotting real time signals where Matplotlib was too slow. That seems to me the best niche for this library (competing with pyqtgraph), since Bokeh is probably dominating the interactive plotting applications now. 

[Pierre Raybaut]

Apart from the signal plotting performance, one could mention the huge gap between guiqwt and matplotlib in terms of image visualization performance (e.g. showing 20,000 x 20,000 images and zooming in/out continuously in real-time with your mouse is possible) and features (contrast adjustment, cross sections, mask tools, etc.).

As for the interactivity, I'm not comparing it to Bokeh since the end-user should not be the same:

• As far as I know, Bokeh is for plotting data inside a web page.
• guiqwt produces Qt widgets that can be used to plot signals or show images à la MATLAB but it is especially suited for embedding such widgets in Qt desktop applications (to develop signal and image processing software).

So, to sum-up the main uses of this library, I'd say that it's mainly for developping desktop Qt-based signal and image processing software requiring fast visualization and interactive tools.

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[Michael S]

Given the popularity of the libraries in terms of their GUI capabilities, their scientific basis and keeping the reference to guidata and guiqwt:

One suggestion would be: guisci

gui: Keeping the link with guidata & guiqwt and the awesome abilities the merged library has wrt these.

sci: Beacuse fundamentally these libraries stem from a scientific use case.

Just a suggestion :) 

[Big Stone]

Hi,

"PyQtGui" would fit nicely along "PyQtGraph"

[Mous Tatarkhanov]

Hi Pierre,

Just checking to see if there has been a decision on the merged module. 

SciGui or keeping the name as GuiQwt sound good!

Mous.

[Claude]

And the winner is ??

Claude

Le vendredi 13 mai 2016 10:26:40 UTC+2, Pierre Raybaut a écrit :

[Johannes Eckstein]

what about scicharts...

but my favourite is still scigrail gggg

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[Pierre Raybaut]

Well I hope you won’t be too disappointed… the winner is “plotpy” (see the associated GitHub project).

 

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