It would be great to restore to_mask to mathtex as it can be useful for GUI frameworks that require both an RGB and A buffer (rather than a single RGBA buffer). Its implementation should be pretty straightforward, since you already have image buffer output in mathtex.
There may be a way to re-write menu.py to not depend on mathtex -- such as using ft2font directly. But since mathtex will become a hard requirement for matplotlib anyway, it may be easiest to just add to_mask and update the example to use the new mathtex APIs. Cheers, Mike Freddie Witherden wrote: > Hi all, > > I was grepping the source code today for any remaining uses of > matplotlib.mathtext in matplotlib and stumbled upon menu.py -- a menu > demo/example. > > Although it does use/import mathtex it seems to only use it for > rendering plain (non-math) text using the to_mask function. This is > something that mathtex has no equivalent of (and appears to be the > only use of it). > > Can anyone recommend an alternative way of writing menu.py so that it > does not depend on mathtex? > > Regards, Freddie. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
