I have used the TkAgg backend in python2, installing the dependencies by hand. Is this backend not available for python3?
-Sterling On Apr 18, 2013, at 8:03PM, John Ladasky wrote: > Thanks to both Francesco Montesano and Benjamin Root. I have done some > reading. And I have made some progress, though I am not quite where I > want to be yet. > > So the problem appears to be that the only backend for which I had > suitable Python 3 libraries was agg. It only requires libpng, which I > have. I can render a Matplotlib canvas, but it appears that the only > output that agg offers is in the form of PNG files to disk. I cannot > create a live window on the screen. > > Reading more, I realize that the way I was getting GUI output previously > (with Python 2.7 and Matplotlib 1.1) was through wxPython. > Unfortunately, it appears that wxPython's star is fading, and a Python > 3-compatible version will not be written. In fact, wxPython hasn't > released a new version in nine months. > > The other choices for Matplotlib GUI output on Linux appear to be > through GTK, PySide, and PyQt. I am not familiar with GTK, but I know > that it is widely-used. Also, GTK appears to be Python 3-compatible, > and so that is where I need to go. > > I'm going through a trial and error process. Unfortunately, the names > of the repositories in Ubuntu are not very helpful. I installed a few > GTK and python-gtk related packages that I thought were relevant. On my > first build attempt I got no errors, but also, I didn't get a GTKAgg > backend. Upon re-reading, I saw that I should modify matplotlib's > setup.cfg file to force a GTK build attempt, and to report errors if it > fails. That's what it does. In the "optional backend dependencies" > section I am not seeing any GTK libraries listed, even though I have > installed python-gtk2-dev (2.24.0), python-gobject-2-dev (2.28.6), > libgtk2.0-dev (2.24.10), libglib2.0-dev (2.32.3), python-gi-dev (3.2.2), > python-gobject-dev (3.2.2), python3-gi (3.2.2), and a few DOZEN packages > on which these depend. > > If anyone knows the way forward from here, I would appreciate your > advice. Thanks again. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
