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<p>There are several tutorials for Chaco, each covering slightly different
aspects:</p>
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<li><p class="first">Tutorial 1, <a class="reference internal" href="tutorial_1.html#tutorial-1"><em>Interactive Plotting with Chaco</em></a>, introduces some basic concepts of
how to use Chaco and Traits UI to do basic plots, customize
layout, and add interactivity.</p>
<p>Although Traits UI is not required to use Chaco, it is the by far the
most common usage of Chaco. It is a good approach for those who are
relatively new to developing GUI applications. Using Chaco with Traits
UI allows the scientist or novice programmer to easily develop plotting
applications, but it also provides them room to grow as their
requirements change and increase in complexity.</p>
<p>Traits UI can also be used by a more experienced developer to build more
involved applications, and Chaco can be used to embed visualizations or
to leverage interactive graphs as controllers for an application.</p>
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<li><p class="first">Tutorial 2, <a class="reference internal" href="tutorial_2.html#tutorial-2"><em>Modeling Van der Waal’s Equation With Chaco and Traits</em></a>, is another example of creating a data
model and then using Traits and Chaco to rapidly create interactive
plot GUIs.</p>
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<li><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="tutorial_hyetograph.html#tutorial-hyetograph"><em>Creating an interactive Hyetograph with Chaco and Traits</em></a> introduces the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on_trait_listener</span></tt>
decorator and uses Chaco, simple Traits views, and live GUI interaction.</p>
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<li><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="tutorial_wx.html#tutorial-wx"><em>WX-based Tutorial</em></a>: Creating a stand-alone wxPython application, or
embedding a Chaco plot within an existing Wx application.</p>
<p>This tutorial is suited for those who are familiar with programming
using wxPython or Qt and prefer to write directly to those toolkits. It
shows how to embed Chaco components directly into an enclosing widget,
panel, or dialog. It also demonstrates more advanced usages like using
a wxPython Timer to display live, updating data
streams.</p>
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<li><p class="first">Using the Chaco Shell command-line plotting interface to build plots, in
a Matlab or gnuplot-like style. Although this approach doesn’t lend itself
to building more reusable utilities or applications, it can be a quick way
to get plots on the screen and build one-off visualizations. See
<a class="reference internal" href="tutorial_ipython.html#tutorial-ipython"><em>Exploring Chaco with IPython</em></a>.</p>
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