Jean-Francois Canac wrote: >I am reading a large amount of data from a COM port (or from a file) at a rate of 20 records per second. It is about >positioning of a vehicle on a race track. >In each record we have time, position (lat and long) speed, course all from GPS equipment. I would like to Produce a >graph in real time with these records to see the vehicle moving on the track. The goal is to study the vehicle >performance and to always have its position, the application would run around 24 hours. > >I would like to write the application in Python and I am wondering which plot interface would be the more appropriate, I >have seen matplotlib, but I do not know how to make real time applications with big amount of data. Is hippodraw more >suited to this use or an other interface? >Many thanks
I would draw dots on a suitably sized Tkinter canvas, after drawing a schematic of the race track (laborious). 20 per second will be no problem, provided the machine is half decent. What is the speed at which the com port runs? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list