On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Nathan Salomonis <nsalomo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just installed matplotlib on my Mac OS 10.6 Machine (64bit) with default
> Python 2.7.1 (easy_install). While the initial 2D graph examples work
> great, when testing any of the animations, such as:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/simple_anim.html
>
> I always get the same error:
>
> File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/animation.py",
> line 248, in _blit_clear
> a.figure.canvas.restore_region(bg_cache[a])
> AttributeError: 'FigureCanvasMac' object has no attribute 'restore_region'
>
> Since "restore_region" is only in backend_agg.py and not in
> backend_macosx.py, After reading more on this, I thought this might be
> corrected by re-installing from source and setting the setup.cfg to macosx
> = True and backend = MacOSX prior to building, but this did not correct the
> issue. Also, changing backend: Agg to backend: MacOSX in:
>
> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
>
> didn't work either. Does anyone have experience with this or further
> insight?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
>
Yes, I encountered this before. The problem is with blitting and the
macosx backend. Have you tried using a different backend or setting
blit=False in some of the animation commands?
Ben Root
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