From 9a2d127e306e15a2589583f40e3ac7574424ee17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Wehling-Benatelli <sebastian.wehling@rub.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:14:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added class MPLWidget in order to create updatable Matplotlib
 Figures within a Qt GUI

---
 pylot/core/util/widgets.py | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pylot/core/util/widgets.py

diff --git a/pylot/core/util/widgets.py b/pylot/core/util/widgets.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d99fe947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pylot/core/util/widgets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Created on Wed Mar 19 11:27:35 2014
+
+@author: sebastianw
+"""
+
+import matplotlib
+
+matplotlib.use('Qt4Agg')
+matplotlib.rcParams['backend.qt4'] = 'PySide'
+
+from matplotlib.figure import Figure
+from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg
+
+
+class MPLWidget(FigureCanvasQTAgg):
+
+    def __init__(self, parent=None, xlabel='x', ylabel='y', title='Title'):
+        super(MPLWidget, self).__init__(Figure())
+
+        self.setParent(parent)
+        self.figure = Figure()
+        self.canvas = FigureCanvasQTAgg(self.figure)
+        self.axes = self.figure.add_subplot(111)
+
+        self.axes.set_xlabel(xlabel)
+        self.axes.set_ylabel(ylabel)
+        self.axes.set_title(title)