simple-plotter 0.3.0

Minimalistic plotting front-end and python code generator

simple-plotter

simple_plotter is a code-generator and minimal GUI frontend for plotting functional 2D x,y-plots. The function equation has to be entered in python syntax (allowing the use of numpy statements).

Besides saving and loading projects to/from a JSON file, simple_plotter also provides the possibility to export the project as python code.

The simple_plotter package comes with a Qt-based GUI-frontend. There is an additional alternative kivy-based frontend, created primarily for the Android port - simple-plotter4a - which can also be used on the desktop.

simple_plotter is released under GPLv3+, Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Thies Hecker

It contains a color map definition taken from the matplotlib project, Copyright (c) 2012-2020 Matplotlib Development Team; All Rights Reserved

See NOTICE and LICENSE files for details on licensing.

Getting started

Desktop

As simple_plotter is entirely written in python it should run on any desktop platform with a python3 interpreter and support for the required packages (see Requirements).

The packages for simple-plotter are available on PyPI. The easiest solution is to install the base package with the default GUI front-end and plotting library (i.e. PyQt and matplotlib) using pip.

Open up a terminal and type:

pip install simple-plotter[Qt-matplotlib]

It will automatically install the requirements.

To launch simple-plotter just enter:

simple-plotter

To install different GUI/plotting library options see Configuration options.

Android

The Android app is available in the F-Droid app-store.

If you would like to build the Android APK from source follow the instructions on https://gitlab.com/thecker/simple-plotter4a

Note

Due to a broken matplotlib recipe in the python-for-android project only the kivy-garden-graph configuration is working on Android - see Configuration options.

Configuration options

The table below shows the currently available configuration options.

Configuration	plotting library	GUI frame work	Package
matplotlib	garden.graph	PyQt	kivy
Qt-matplotlib	x		x		simple-plotter
kivy-matplotlib	x			x	simple-plotter4a
kivy-garden-graph		x		x	simple-plotter4a

Use pip install <Package>[<Configuration>] to install one of the configuration options - e.g.:

pip install simple-plotter4a[kivy-matplotlib]

Similarly you launch the programs with simple-plotter-<Configuration> - e.g.:

simple-plotter-kivy-matplotlib

Requirements

simple_plotter is written in python3 and requires has following dependencies:

Mandatory:

• jsonpickle

• numpy

• setuptools_scm

• jinja2

Optional:

• pyqt >= 5

• matplotlib>=2

• kivy>=1.11

• kivy-garden.graph>=0.4

The optional dependencies provide are related to the different Configuration options.

Source code

The source code can be obtained from:

https://gitlab.com/thecker/simple-plotter

and (for the kivy-based GUI)

https://gitlab.com/thecker/simple-plotter4a