On Wednesday 26 March 2008 19:39, Chris Withers wrote:
> Matthias Michler wrote:
> >> My x-axis is time, and as new points are plotted, even though I'm
> >> following the above recipe pretty closely, the x-tick spacing isn't
> >> getting sorted out, so I end up with just a jumble as the tick labels
> >> for the x-axis. Do you know why this might be?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand correctly, but if the number of xticks
> > increases dramatically (nobody could see the individual ticks),
>
> Indeed, it looks like the Tick spacing is staying as it was when the
> first point was plotted, so when hundreds more points are plotted, I
> just get a jumble of labels on the x-axis.
>
> > the above script leads
> > to a different behaviour on my system.
>
> What is that behaviour and what version of matplotlib are you using?
I think it is the expected behaviour. The number of xtick is aproximately
constant and some tick get sorted out, when the xlimits are increasing.
I'm using matplotlib-svn r5024 on Debian etch.
> >> Shame I get that horrible exception when I do close the plot window,
> >> wish I knew how to make it stop :-S
> >
> > I don't know which exception you refer to, but sometimes if gives
> > problems if the interactive mode wasn't switched off ("ioff()") before
> > the scripts ends or "show()" is called.
>
> If I run the attached script, and hit Ctrl-C in the DOS box running it,
> I get:
>
> C:\>python mpltest.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "mpltest.py", line 3, in <module>
> show()
> File
> "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", li
> e 76, in show
> Tk.mainloop()
> File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 328, in mainloop
> _default_root.tk.mainloop(n)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> Fatal Python error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> I've had a similar error when I hit the red cross in the corner of the
> window with other scripts, although not this one :-S
sorry. I have no idea where this problems comes from. I have seen that using
idle and the latest release of matplotlib on and winxp, but I can't reproduce
it on my linux system.
Matthias
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