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Runs a Pyqtgraph in a second process, liberating the main process to continue its work.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
This demo is similar to Pyqtgraph remote plotting examples (https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph/blob/develop/examples/RemoteGraphicsView.py)
Except that it does not use Pyqtgraph's buggy multiprocess module. Instead, it relies on standard python 3+ multiprocessing (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/multiprocessing.html).
In this example, function f is executed in a second process, which liberates immediately the main process.
"""
from pyqtgraph.Qt import QtGui, QtCore
import numpy as np
import pyqtgraph as pg
from multiprocessing import Process, Manager
def f(name):
app2 = QtGui.QApplication([])
win2 = pg.GraphicsWindow(title="Basic plotting examples")
win2.resize(1000,600)
win2.setWindowTitle('pyqtgraph example: Plotting')
p2 = win2.addPlot(title="Updating plot")
curve = p2.plot(pen='y')
def updateInProc(curve):
t = np.arange(0,3.0,0.01)
s = np.sin(2 * np.pi * t + updateInProc.i)
curve.setData(t,s)
updateInProc.i += 0.1
updateInProc.i = 0
timer = QtCore.QTimer()
timer.timeout.connect(lambda: updateInProc(curve))
timer.start(50)
QtGui.QApplication.instance().exec_()
## Start Qt event loop unless running in interactive mode or using pyside.
if __name__ == '__main__':
manager = Manager()
data = manager.list()
p = Process(target=f, args=('bob',))
p.start()
input("Type any key to quit.")
print("Waiting for graph window process to join...")
p.join()
print("Process joined successfully. C YA !")
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Magic3D commented Feb 21, 2022

THANK YOU!!!!!

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