[Casa-framework] msplot tool

[Lindsey Davis]

Hi,

I have been experimenting with the casapy msplot tool alot 
and I am happy with the basic command line interface,
although I have reservations about some of the matplotlib
commands, especially subplot. I don't like computing indices
in my head ... However there is one design restriction / feature
that I am concerned about and that is the decision
to support only one instance of the msplot window. Is this
a deliberate decision, a let's get it working quickly now
decision, or a technically based decision ?

What I did alot with the glish version of msplot is bring up two
instances of msplot and display raw data in one and reduced data
in the other. I did not have to worry about figures, subplots, indices,
overplots, or any setup at all, and the context of the two tools
was entirely independent. At present I think the only way to replicate
this use case is bring up two instances of casapy. Is this true?

Another thing I would like to do to is choose to display the flagged
data or not, e.g. something like

mp.vistime .... showflags=True

with the flags coming up in a different color or symbol. Is there
a way to do this easily with the current mp tool ? I see some nice
commands for manipulating flags, but not for displaying them. This
was something that was not well supported in the old msplot as 
far as I could tell.



                                                       Lindsey