Integrating Plotly inside WxPython

Question

Plotly says it is a web library. Matplotlib does support Wxpython but comparatively, it is too low level. Is there any way to integrate Plotly inside a Wxpython GUI or are there any alternative for it?

You can [easily integrate matplotlib in wxpython](https://matplotlib.org/gallery/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx5_sgskip.html). Plotly in turn is web based. You may create a webbrowser in wx to show plotly output though (probably using something like `wx.html2.WebView`). Something similar has been shown in [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53570384/plotly-how-to-make-a-standalone-plot-in-a-window/53573039#53573039) for PyQt instead of wx. — ImportanceOfBeingErnest, Mar 26 '19 at 22:01

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '19 at 14:54

You might be able to use Plotly's ability to export plots to images to get the plots into wxPython:

https://plot.ly/python/offline/#static-image-export

If you need the live plotting though, then you will need to use Webview:

https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.html2.WebView.html

I also see that Plotly can now be used offline, so if you used that plus Webview, it should work.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '19 at 11:18

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Wxpython webview doesn't support 3-d graphs from plotly.
For 3-d graphs, I used cefpython. It embeds a full chromium browser inside python application. wxpython example can be found here: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/blob/master/examples/wxpython.py.
I used plotly offline, and read the file inside cefpython.

answered Apr 27 '19 at 11:18

Shubham Chaudhary

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Do you have an example for using offline plotly inside cefpython? – like2think Oct 19 '21 at 19:01
@bs0d it wasn't special to plotly. I used plotly to write files and read them using cefpython as it would read any other html. – Shubham Chaudhary Oct 21 '21 at 07:13

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