Qt4 + mplot3d of matplotlib

I am trying to embed a 3D plot in a Qt4 GUI (has other buttons), is this possible using matplotlib's mplot3d?

I am aware that 2d plots are possible using "matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg", and i have done this.

If yes, please quote an example.

If no, what is the favorite option? VTK?

Thanks!

While not the cleanest thing you're going to see. I've noticed that is it not as fast as the tkinter backend. Then again it works.

Have fun:

import os
import sys

from PyQt4 import QtCore,  QtGui

from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4 import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar

from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D

class QtMplCanvas(FigureCanvas):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, width = 6.5, height = 5.5, dpi = 100, sharex = None, sharey = None, fig = None):
        if fig == None:
            self.fig = Figure(figsize = (width, height), dpi=dpi, facecolor = '#FFFFFF')
            self.ax = self.fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
            self.fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.1, bottom=0.1, right=0.9, top=0.9)
            self.ax.hold(True)
        else:
            self.fig = fig

        FigureCanvas.__init__(self, self.fig)
        FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy(self,
            QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding,
            QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
        FigureCanvas.updateGeometry(self)

    def sizeHint(self):
        w, h = self.get_width_height()
        return QtCore.QSize(w, h)

    def minimumSizeHint(self):
        return QtCore.QSize(10, 10)

    def sizeHint(self):
        w, h = self.get_width_height()
        return QtCore.QSize(w, h)

    def minimumSizeHint(self):
        return QtCore.QSize(10, 10)


class MyNavigationToolbar(NavigationToolbar) :
    def __init__(self, parent, canvas, direction = 'h' ) :

        self.canvas = canvas
        QWidget.__init__( self, parent )

        if direction=='h' :
            self.layout = QHBoxLayout( self )
        else :
            self.layout = QVBoxLayout( self )

        self.layout.setMargin( 2 )
        self.layout.setSpacing( 0 )

        NavigationToolbar2.__init__( self, canvas )


    def set_message( self, s ):
        pass


class MPL_WIDGET_3D(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent = None, enableAutoScale = False, enableCSV = False, enableEdit = False, fig = None):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
        self.canvas = QtMplCanvas(fig)
        self.canvas.ax.mouse_init()
        self.toolbar = NavigationToolbar(self.canvas, self.canvas)
        self.vbox = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.vbox.addWidget(self.canvas)
        self.vbox.addWidget(self.toolbar)
        self.setLayout(self.vbox)


        ###########SAVING FIGURE TO CLIPBOARD##########
        self.cb = None #will be used for the clipboard
        self.tempPath = getHomeDir()
        self.tempPath = os.path.join(self.tempPath,'tempMPL.png')

        self.mpl2ClipAction = QtGui.QAction("Save to Clipboard",  self)
        self.mpl2ClipAction.setShortcut("Ctrl+C")
        self.addAction(self.mpl2ClipAction)
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self.mpl2ClipAction,QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self.mpl2Clip)

    def mpl2Clip(self):
        try:
            self.canvas.fig.savefig(self.tempPath)
            tempImg = QtGui.QImage(self.tempPath)
            self.cb = QtGui.QApplication.clipboard()
            self.cb.setImage(tempImg)
        except:
            print 'Error copying figure to clipboard'
            errorMsg = "Sorry: %s\n\n:%s\n"%(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value)
            print errorMsg

####USED TO GET THE USERS HOME DIRECTORY FOR USE OF A TEMP FILE

def valid(path):
    if path and os.path.isdir(path):
        return True
    return False

def env(name):
    return os.environ.get( name, '' )

def getHomeDir():
    if sys.platform != 'win32':
        return os.path.expanduser( '~' )

    homeDir = env( 'USERPROFILE' )
    if not valid(homeDir):
        homeDir = env( 'HOME' )
        if not valid(homeDir) :
            homeDir = '%s%s' % (env('HOMEDRIVE'),env('HOMEPATH'))
            if not valid(homeDir) :
                homeDir = env( 'SYSTEMDRIVE' )
                if homeDir and (not homeDir.endswith('\\')) :
                    homeDir += '\\'
                if not valid(homeDir) :
                    homeDir = 'C:\\'
    return homeDir


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    mplQt = MPL_WIDGET_3D()
    mplQt.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())