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Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - JohnT - Apr-15-2021
Hi,
I'm working on my first pyQt gui. I'm using QtDesigner.
I've added four widgets on which I draw live sensor data. I'm Using the matplotlib.animation class and everything is working quite well so far. I get the four individual graphs on each widget.
My problem ist, that the x and y axis autoscale according to the incoming data, but the tick labels are static.
From my research so far I know, that this is a result of the blit=True argument in the FuncAnimation() routine. If blitting is enabled the axis and so on are not plotted again.
I've tried to disable the blitting but by doing so there is no data plotted at all. The only thing that worked so far was to add a MplWidget.self.draw() to the update function. This leads to the fact, that the whole plot gets plotted again and again which ends up in performance problems. So not a good solution.
Is there any way to automatically refresh the x-tick labels in the animation and not losing too much performance?
Any help is appriciated
Thanks a lot
John
RE: Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - Axel_Erfurt - Apr-15-2021
Without seeing the code, nobody will be able to help.
RE: Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - JohnT - Apr-21-2021
Hi and sorry for my late response,
I thought thats its a general problem so I kept out the code. I chopped down the code to the essentials and will add it here.
The code is working so I dont post the imports and so on.
For testing purposes the live data is simulated by a .csv-file which is read in the initialisation. The test values are in range of 100 to 200. My problem is, that the labels of the x-ticks and the ticks itselfs are not refreshed according to the plotted data. The horizontal size of the graph is changing as further data is plotted, so in the background the setting of the x limits seems to work.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot
class Live_Window(FigureCanvas):
def __init__(self, parent=None, width=5, height=4, dpi=100):
super().__init__(mpl.figure.Figure())
self.actRow = 10
self.axis = self.figure.subplots()
self.axis.spines['bottom'].set_color('white')
self.axis.spines['left'].set_color('white')
self.axis.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
self.axis.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
self.axis.tick_params(axis='x', colors='white')
self.axis.tick_params(axis='y', colors='white')
self.axis.xaxis.label.set_color('white')
self.axis.yaxis.label.set_color('white')
self.axis.set_facecolor(('black'))
self.figure.patch.set_facecolor('#2E3436')
self.figure.tight_layout()
class MainWidget(QWidget, XYZ.Ui_Dialog):
def __init__(self):
super(MainWidget,self).__init__()
self.setupUi(self)
self.init_Widget()
self.counter = 1
self.newData = pd.read_csv('Data.csv', sep=';')
self.Time = self.newData.iloc[:,0]-self.newData.iloc[0,0]
self.newData.iloc[:,0] = self.Time
self.pb_StartMeasurement.clicked.connect(self.startMeasurement)
def init_Widget(self):
self.matplotlib_widget1 = Live_Window()
self.layoutvertical1 = QVBoxLayout(self.plotWidget)
self.layoutvertical1.addWidget(self.matplotlib_widget1)
#create empty lists
self.x = list(range(0,0))
self.y = list(range(0,0))
self.line1, = self.matplotlib_widget1.axis.plot(self.x, self.y, lw=1, color = 'chocolate')
def update_line(self, i):
## append new data to data line
self.y.append(self.newData.iloc[self.counter, self.matplotlib_widget1.actRow])
self.x.append(self.newData.iloc[self.counter, 0])
self.matplotlib_widget1.axis.set_xlim([0,max(self.x)])
self.matplotlib_widget1.axis.set_ylim(min(self.y),max(self.y)+10)
self.counter += 1
self.line1.set_ydata(self.y)
self.line1.set_xdata(self.x)
return [self.line1]
## triggered by pushbutton
def startMeasurement(self):
self.ani1 = FuncAnimation( self.matplotlib_widget1.figure, self.update_line,
blit=True, interval=40)
if __name__ == '__main__':
APP = QApplication(sys.argv)
GUI = MainWidget()
GUI.show()
APP.exec_()
sys.exit(APP.exec())
RE: Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - Axel_Erfurt - Apr-21-2021
This is only part of the code and is useless.
You don't have any imports (PyQt5, matplotlib, pandas ...)
What is XYZ.Ui_Dialog?
RE: Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - JohnT - Apr-21-2021
(Apr-21-2021, 03:26 PM)Axel_Erfurt Wrote: This is only part of the code and is useless.
You don't have any imports (PyQt5, matplotlib, pandas ...)
What is XYZ.Ui_Dialog?
I've written, that i left out the imports because it's not an import problem as the code is running correctly.
Here are the imports
XYZ ist the converted .ui file which I created in the QtDesigner. I created a empty widget in QtDesigner called "plotWidget" used in the init_Widget function.
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget, QApplication, QVBoxLayout,QLabel, QInputDialog, QLineEdit, QFileDialog from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg from matplotlib.figure import Figure from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvas import matplotlib as mpl from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation from matplotlib.widgets import Cursor, MultiCursor import numpy as np import pandas as pd import sys import XYZ
RE: Refresh x-labels in matplotlib animation widget - JohnT - Apr-23-2021
Any hints? Or is some information missing?