Darren, Have you happened to review Pierre's patch for the toolbar improvement? I am interested to see this integrated in mpl soon.
Thanks. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Pierre Raybaut <cont...@pythonxy.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've already sent everything to Darren. I don't have any news but I > guess that it will be integrated soon. > > Pierre > > 2009/11/9 Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Pierre, >> >> What is the latest status on this improvement? Will you give a patch >> to the matplotlib? >> >> Please let me know. >> >> Thanks >> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Pierre Raybaut <cont...@pythonxy.com> wrote: >>> 2009/4/28 Dave Peterson <dpeter...@enthought.com>: >>>> Darren Dale wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Pierre Raybaut <cont...@pythonxy.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 2009/4/28 John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com>: >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Pierre Raybaut <cont...@pythonxy.com> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Hi all, >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I would like to contribute to matplotlib with this enhancement for the >>>>> >> PyQt4 backend: the idea is to add a toolbar button to configure figure >>>>> >> options (axes, curves, ...). >>>>> >> >>>>> >> It's based on a tiny module called formlayout to generate PyQt4 form >>>>> >> dialog automatically. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Some screenshots: >>>>> >> http://code.google.com/p/formlayout/ >>>>> >> >>>>> >> So, if you're interested (all the following is GPL2): >>>>> >> >>>>> >> *matplotlib patch* >>>>> >> >>>>> >> In FigureManagerQT.__init__, added: >>>>> >> self.canvas.axes = self.canvas.figure.add_subplot(111) >>>>> >> >>>>> >> In NavigationToolbar2QT._init_toolbar, added: >>>>> >> a = self.addAction(self._icon("customize.png"), 'Customize', >>>>> >> self.edit_parameters) >>>>> >> a.setToolTip('Edit curves line and axes parameters') >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Added the following method in NavigationToolbar2QT: >>>>> >> def edit_parameters(self): >>>>> >> from figureoptions import figure_edit >>>>> >> figure_edit(self.canvas, self) >>>>> >> >>>>> >> *additionnal modules and data* >>>>> >> >>>>> >> formlayout.py (http://code.google.com/p/formlayout/) >>>>> >> figureoptions.py (http://code.google.com/p/PyQtShell/) >>>>> >> customize.png (http://code.google.com/p/PyQtShell/) >>>>> > >>>>> > Hi Pierre -- this looks very nice (the last link is broken though , I >>>>> > get a >>>>> > 404 error). We would be happy to include this in matplotlib or as a >>>>> >>>>> Here is the last link: >>>>> http://code.google.com/p/pyqtshell/ >>>>> >>>>> > toolkit. To contribute it to to mpl, the license needs to be >>>>> > matplotlib >>>>> > compatible >>>>> > (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#licenses) but >>>>> > we >>>>> > have more licensing flexibility in a toolkit, though we prefer to keep >>>>> > everything BSD compatible where possible. And of course you would need >>>>> > to >>>>> > agree to maintain it :-) but I think many users would appreciate a GUI >>>>> > plot >>>>> > configuration dialog. >>>>> >>>>> I was not aware of this license restriction in matplotlib... I fully >>>>> understand the motivation, of course, but still: I wrote all this on >>>>> my free time which means no PyQt4 commercial license, so it can't be >>>>> anything but GPL. Sorry... >>>> >>>> I think you have overlooked a subtlety of PyQt4's license. The author of >>>> PyQt4 wrote on the enthought-dev mailing list: >>>> >>>> "PyQt is GPL but has exceptions that allow it to be used with BSD code - >>>> hence it's Ok for TraitsBackendQt to be BSD. >>>> >>>> However, the exception imposes additional conditions which, to all intents >>>> and purposes, infects the code with the GPL. To be fair to people that >>>> should be made clear in any text. >>>> >>>> It's still a good idea for TraitsBackendQt to use a BSD license because it >>>> allows commercial (ie. non-GPL) users to use it without problems." >>>> >>>> Darren >>>> >>>> I think it might be worth contacting the PyQt folks (Phil Thompson) about >>>> this. I think there might be some differences here because Phil was the >>>> author of TraitsBackendQt and thus his efforts didn't quite fall under the >>>> "develop under a free license, your results needs to be GPL" clause Qt/PyQt >>>> have in their licensing. >>>> >>>> -- Dave >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Dave, you are absolutely right. >>> >>> Last week-end, I found myself surfing on PyQt's website and I told to >>> myself: what about re-reading the license? (always a pleasure) And >>> surprisingly, I found out that anyone using the GPL version of PyQt >>> can release source code under a very permissive license (like MIT or >>> BSD) thanks to the PyQt-GPL Exception, as long as PyQt itself is not >>> part of the distributed package (otherwise the whole package has to be >>> licensed under GPL) - and with other little restrictions. It was a >>> surprise because I've read here and there a lot of things on PyQt >>> license and the general idea was "if you write PyQt code without the >>> commercial license, your code *must* be licensed under GPL" - I can >>> tell now that it's not true (to be absolutely certain about it, I even >>> asked to Phil Thompson to confirm this, and he did). >>> >>> So, I switched all the code I was referring to in my original e-mail >>> to MIT license. >>> I guess now it could be integrated to matplotlib Qt4 backend? >>> >>> formlayout (generate option dialogs): >>> http://code.google.com/p/formlayout/ >>> >>> pydee (IDE which integrates matplotlib and the option dialog): >>> http://code.google.com/p/pydee/ >>> Meanwhile, thanks to the brand new Google-code Mercurial support, you >>> may browse the source code if you like: >>> http://code.google.com/p/pydee/source/browse/pydeelib/widgets/figureoptions.py >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Pierre >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises >>> looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest >>> innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. 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