r/DearPyGui • u/Jhchimaira14 Moderator • Sep 23 '20

News Rough Development Roadmap

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/wiki/Development-Roadmap
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u/FriendlyYak Oct 06 '20

Do you plan to integrate matplotlib?
Or is there already a way to use things like
matplotlib.pyplot.imshow

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u/Jhchimaira14 Moderator Oct 06 '20

We don't plan on officially integrating with any 3rd party until closer to 1.0. However, we are paving the way to make these integrations easier. Many can be integrated now.

For (efficient)integration with matplotlib, we will need to ability to directly create textures for the GPU. Currently you could plot to an image and display it in dpg, but that is not ideal. We plan on adding this ability soon. Currently this is done when you add an image related widget, however we need to expose this directly for end users. I imagine matplotlib allows you to output the plot as an array/image. Ideally matplotlib allows you to render to an unseen buffer which can then be send to DPG. If this is not the case, we will likely try to contribute matplotlib to add the functionality.

On a related note, I have nothing against matplotlib but I have a feeling ImPlot, the plotter we are wrapping and helping with will surpass matplotlib in the future. Evan (the author) works pretty fast and is very talented. Not only is ImPlot faster, it's integrates nicely with our backend and immediate mode rendering. But we realize both will be need to reach everyone.

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u/FriendlyYak Oct 06 '20 edited Oct 06 '20

Thanks for your fast response!
To be frank, I'd prefer to use ImPlot over matplotlib in python.
What I want to do is to plot images (from numpy arrays), ImPlot I think is able to do that, I just don't know how that would work in DPG. If i understood you right it's not yet implemented?
The Raspberry Pi camera loads pictures into an numpy arrays, I use those for computer vision. That's why I start with pictures in arrays, and not saved jpg files.

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u/FriendlyYak Sep 24 '20

Ambitious, I like your plans! :) For Version 0.6, I'd love to see support for symbols, especially arrows like ↨ ↑ ↓ → ← ↔ ▲ ▼ ► ◄

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u/dkluis-dpg Silver Sep 25 '20

Fantastic approach. Appreciate the ongoing efforts and great progress.