On 09/02/2011 04:48 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu > <mailto:efir...@hawaii.edu>> wrote: > > On 08/31/2011 05:00 PM, Trevor J Christensen wrote: > > I went here: > > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/index_backend_api.html > > > > and didn't see tkagg listed. > > > > Trevor > > Trevor, > > Thank you. It is still missing from the devel branch, along with > several others. I can see how this could cause some confusion. Maybe > we can get it fixed before the next release, maybe not. > > Part of the problem here is that auto-generation of docs saves a huge > amount of work, but can also lead to problems, of which this is just one > example. > > Eric > > > It wouldn't be that difficult to add references to those other backends, > however I do not know how complete their documentations are. As an > interesting note, the GTKAgg API docs are currently commented out with a > note saying that an active X-window session is needed to import the GTK > backends. Was this preventing the GTK docs from building? How come do > other GUI backends still build fine?
That seems to be just a peculiarity of the particular gui toolkits. It is possible to import the others without a display; they don't fail until one tries to plot something. Eric > > Ben Root > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
