Writing in Python 2.7 using pyQt 4.8.5:
How may I update a Matplotlib widget in real time within pyQt?
Currently I'm sampling data (random.gauss for now), appending this and plotting - you can see that I'm clearing the figure each time and re-plotting for each call:
def getData(self):
self.data = random.gauss(10,0.1)
self.ValueTotal.append(self.data)
self.updateData()
def updateData(self):
self.ui.graph.axes.clear()
self.ui.graph.axes.hold(True)
self.ui.graph.axes.plot(self.ValueTotal,'r-')
self.ui.graph.axes.grid()
self.ui.graph.draw()
My GUI works though I think this is the wrong way to achieve this as its highly inefficient, I believe I should use the 'animate call'(?) whilst plotting, though I don't know how.
解决方案
One idea would be to update only the graphics object after the first plot was done.
axes.plot should return a Line2D object whose x and y-data you can modify:
So, once you have the line plotted, don't delete and plot a new one, but modify the existing:
def updateData(self):
if not hasattr(self, 'line'):
# this should only be executed on the first call to updateData
self.ui.graph.axes.clear()
self.ui.graph.axes.hold(True)
self.line = self.ui.graph.axes.plot(self.ValueTotal,'r-')
self.ui.graph.axes.grid()
else:
# now we only modify the plotted line
self.line.set_xdata(np.arange(len(self.ValueTotal))
self.line.set_ydata(self.ValueTotal)
self.ui.graph.draw()