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NEW FEATURE: Add > and >> buttons #7
Description
Summary
Add buttons to update dimensions and animate them
Reason
Particularly for time, this better helps to investigate changing behavior of a variable (see also https://github.com/Chilipp/psyplot/issues/10)
Detailed explanation
It is straight-forward to introduce some kind of > and < buttons. >> and << however are more tricky because of the event loop. If we do something like
for t in range(10):
sp.update(time=t)we would not see anything updating because matplotlib does the drawing after the loop. Maybe one can circumvent this by spawning the loop in a separate process, but this needs to be tested.
Examples
ncview has buttons like this
Pinging @MuellerSeb
Activity
MuellerSeb commentedon Dec 6, 2019
In general, it would be nice, if selecting dimensions could be easier. For example if you have a time-series of an variable for a fix x-y combination on a map, it would be nice to simpler update the x-y combination. In ncview, you can click on the map, to get the time-series plot for this point. This should also be quite easy, since the psy-plot gui also supports multiple plots, and matplotlib supports interactive retrieving of coordinates by clicking: https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/users/event_handling.html. These event handling capabilities could also be used to "scroll" through the time by actual scrolling.
I really like the idea to provide all the format options in a simple interface! But the most common ones should be easier accessible (to select another x-dim I have to do several clicks...).
I also like some ideas for formatting from this project: https://github.com/dmnfarrell/pandastable
Which is quite similar, but sticks to 2D data since it is build on pandas.
Overall I really really like this project and I think with some little tweaks (the last 20% imply 80% of the work) this tool could really compete with ncview!
Keep up the cool work and thanks for the effort!
Sebastian
Chilipp commentedon Dec 6, 2019
Hey @MuellerSeb, yes, the GUI definitely needs to be more user-friendly. It was not the focus during my PhD, but with my new position as a Data Scientist, I hope that I can implement more functionalities and make the package more user-friendly. However, I just started at the Helmholtz-Center in Geesthacht (HZG), so I cannot say at the moment how much time there will be to implement new features from my side, and since I am currently the only developer, it's a bit tough. However, I do want to have a plan for the comming year by the end of december and make a schedule for this package as well for development of the entire psyplot-framework. Therefore I am collecting general ideas in https://github.com/Chilipp/psyplot/issues/12 and I highly appreciate your input here. I have to present the usefulness of psyplot in order to free some time for further development.
I am looking forward discussing and implementing these features in https://github.com/Chilipp/psyplot/issues/12 and I would also like to implement the event-handling and the better interface to update formatoptions.
Chilipp commentedon Dec 6, 2019
Sorry, for opening so many issues here, I just would like to separate feature specific issues (such as here) from general issues that discuss the general strategy for psyplot
Chilipp commentedon Apr 14, 2020
Closing in favour of psy-view and psyplot/psy-view#11