On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for doing this--it has already helped me in my testing of the > gappy-path simplification support, which I have now committed. As you > suggested earlier, I included in path.py a check for a compatible codes > array. > > The agg limit still can be a problem. It looks like chunking could be added > easily by making the backend_agg draw_path a python method calling the > renderer method; if the path length exceeds some threshold, then subpaths > would be generated and passed to the renderer method.
In unrelated news, I am not in favor of the recent change to warn on non-GUI backends when "show" is called. I realize this may sometimes cause head-scratching behavior for some users who call show and no figure pops up, but I think this must be pretty rare. 99% of users have a matplotlibrc which defines a GUI default. AFAIK, the only exceptions to this are 1) when the user has changed the rc (power user, needs no protection) or 2) no GUI was available at build time and the image backend was the default backend chosen (warning more appropriate at build time). If I am missing a use case, let me know. I like the design where the same script can be used to either generate a UI figure or hardcopy depending on an rc settng or a command flag (eg backend driver) and would rather not do the warning. This has been a very infrequent problem for users over the years (a few times at most?) so I am not sure that the annoyance of the warning is justified. If 2) in the choices above is the case you are concerned about, and you want this warning feature in this case, we can add an rc param which is autoset at build time, something like "show.warn = True|False" since the build script is setting the default image backend and can set "show.warn = True" when it sets an image backend by default, otherwise False. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
