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diff --git a/doc/source/modules/gui/plot/dev.rst b/doc/source/modules/gui/plot/dev.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..707d215 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/source/modules/gui/plot/dev.rst @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ +Package structure +================= + +The :mod:`silx.gui.plot` package provides plot widgets. +This package is structured as follows. + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot + +:mod:`.PlotWidget` and :mod:`.PlotWindow` provides the user API. +:class:`PlotWidget` is a Qt widget (actually a :class:`QMainWindow`) displaying a 1D, 2D plot area. +It provides different interaction modes. +:class:`PlotWindow` is a Qt widget (actually a :class:`QMainWindow`) which adds a set of toolbar buttons and associated functionalities to :class:`PlotWidget`. +The toolbar QActions are implemented in :mod:`.PlotActions`. + +:mod:`.Plot`, :mod:`.PlotEvents` and :mod:`.PlotInteraction` implement the plotting API regardless of the rendering backend and regardless of its integration in Qt. +The plotting API in defined in :mod:`.Plot`. +The different interaction modes (zoom, drawing, pan) are implemented in :mod:`.PlotInteraction`. +Each interaction mode is implemented with a state machine structure (implemented in :mod:`.Interaction`). +The different events emitted by :class:`Plot` and by the interaction modes are created with helper functions defined in :mod:`.PlotEvents`. + +The :class:`PlotWindow` uses additional widgets: + +- :mod:`.ColormapDialog` to change colormap settings. +- :mod:`.CurvesROIWidget` to create regions of interest for curves +- :mod:`.LegendSelector` to display a list of curves legends which provides some control on the curves (e.g., select, delete). +- :mod:`.MaskToolsWidget` to provide tools to draw a mask on an image. +- :mod:`.ScatterMaskToolsWidget` to provide tools to draw a mask on a scatter. +- The :mod:`.PlotTools` module provides a set of additional widgets: + + - :class:`.PlotTools.PositionInfo` + - :class:`.PlotTools.LimitsToolBar` + +- The :mod:`.Profile` module provides toolbar for extracting profiles from image and image stack: + + - :class:`.Profile.ProfileToolBar` + - :class:`.Profile.Profile3DToolBar` + +- :mod:`silx.gui.console` to provide an IPython console which can control the plot area content. + +The widgets also use the following miscellaneous modules: + +- :mod:`.Colors` to convert colors from name to RGB(A) +- :mod:`.MPLColormap` to embed recent matplotlib colormaps: 'magma', 'inferno', 'plasma' and 'viridis'. +- :mod:`._utils`: utility functions + +The :mod:`backends` package provide the implementation of the rendering used by the :class:`Plot`. +It contains: +:mod:`.backends.BackendBase` defines the API any plot backend should provide in :class:`BackendBase`. +:mod:`.backends.BackendMatplotlib` implements a `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org/>`_ backend. +It uses :mod:`.backends.ModestImage` to provide a faster matplotlib AxesImage class using nearest values. +The :mod:`.backends.BackendMatplotlib` the provides two classes: + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.BackendMatplotlib + +- :class:`BackendMatplotlib` that provides a matplotlib backend without a specific canvas. +- :class:`BackendMatplotlibQt` which inherits from :class:`BackendMatplotlib` and adds a Qt canvas, and Qt specific functionalities. + +The OpenGL-based backend is implemented in the :mod:`.backends.BackendOpenGL` module and +the :mod:`.backends.glutils` package which provides the different primitives used for rendering and interaction. +It is based on :mod:`silx.gui._glutils`, `PyOpenGL <http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/>`_ and OpenGL >= 2.1. + +.. |Plot and backend| image:: img/plot_and_backend.png + :align: middle + +|Plot and backend| + +Modules +======= + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot + +For :mod:`.PlotWidget` and :mod:`.Plot` modules, see their respective documentations: :mod:`.PlotWidget`, :mod:`.Plot`. + +The following modules are the modules used internally by the plot package. + +:mod:`backends.BackendBase` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.BackendBase + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.BackendBase + :members: + +:mod:`backends.BackendMatplotlib` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.BackendMatplotlib + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.BackendMatplotlib + :members: + +:mod:`backends.ModestImage` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.ModestImage + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.backends.ModestImage + :members: + :undoc-members: + +:mod:`ColormapDialog` ++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.ColormapDialog + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.ColormapDialog + :members: + +:mod:`Colors` ++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.Colors + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.Colors + :members: rgba + +:mod:`CurvesROIWidget` +++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.CurvesROIWidget + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.CurvesROIWidget + :members: + +:mod:`Interaction` +++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.Interaction + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.Interaction + :members: + +:mod:`LegendSelector` ++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.LegendSelector + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.LegendSelector + :members: + +:mod:`_BaseMaskToolsWidget` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot._BaseMaskToolsWidget + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot._BaseMaskToolsWidget + :members: + +:mod:`MaskToolsWidget` +++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.MaskToolsWidget + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.MaskToolsWidget + :members: + :show-inheritance: + +:mod:`ScatterMaskToolsWidget` ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.ScatterMaskToolsWidget + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.ScatterMaskToolsWidget + :members: + :show-inheritance: + +:mod:`MPLColormap` +++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.MPLColormap + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.MPLColormap + :members: + +:mod:`PlotEvents` ++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.PlotEvents + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.PlotEvents + :members: + :undoc-members: + +:mod:`PlotInteraction` +++++++++++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot.PlotInteraction + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot.PlotInteraction + :members: + +:mod:`_utils` ++++++++++++++ + +.. currentmodule:: silx.gui.plot._utils + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot._utils + :members: + +:mod:`ticklayout` +----------------- + +.. automodule:: silx.gui.plot._utils.ticklayout + :members:
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