Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap in recent matplotlib

2006-07-29 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > Hi, > > Trying out version 0.87.4 I noticed that the example given on > pages > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/plotmap.py > and > http://scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps > fail with : > > In [1]: from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap > -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] imshow with PS backend

2006-07-29 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 27 July 2006 8:33 am, JIM MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I've just moved from MATLAB to matplotlib, and I'm really impressed > with the quality of the PS figures it generates with usetex and the > xpdf distiller. Glad to hear it. > I've hit a couple of problems though [...] > The first p

[matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-29 Thread Bill Baxter
Matplotlib is quite nice, but I keep running into problems with the actual display interface. In some cases the plot window freezes and such when using it from a debugger, or sometimes pylab.show() just never returns. Matlab's plotting interface just never gave me so much trouble. I think all the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] colorbar behavior

2006-07-29 Thread Eric Firing
Darren, I don't like the default either--I just left it in place so as not to change too many things at once. There is always some tension in mpl between doing things the Matlab way, at least by default, and doing things better. If there is no opinion to the contrary, I am happy to change co

[matplotlib-devel] wx-style layout engine for matplotlib: mplsizer

2006-07-29 Thread Andrew Straw
Due to repeated emails by Eric Firing about how something like this would be nice to have, I finally got around to packaging a little utility I wrote. I uploaded it to the MPL source repository. The basic idea is to create a layout engine for matplotlib. Not wanting to (re-)invent an API, I decided

[matplotlib-devel] _transform limitations

2006-07-29 Thread Eric Firing
John, I think we really need copy (and maybe deepcopy) functions that work with all transforms, not just Separable transforms. This looks fairly easy except for one thing: the transform creation functions return objects that don't provide any clean way of distinguishing among the types of tra