[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.4.1 released

2014-10-18 Thread Thomas Caswell
Hello, We are pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.4.1. This is a bug-fix release for the 1.4 series. - reverts the changes to interactive plotting so ion will work as before in all cases fixed boxplot regressions - fixes for finding freetype and libpng - sundry unicode fixes (look

Re: [matplotlib-devel] savefig for entire canvas?

2014-10-18 Thread Benjamin Root
Ugh, yeah, that wouldn't be desirable. Hopefully someone else can thnk of something more clever. Perhaps the webagg backend might provide a clue? If not, I can live without it for the purposes of my book. As for my next hurdle. There is the well-known limitation with animation saving that the figu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] savefig for entire canvas?

2014-10-18 Thread Thomas Caswell
I would guess that that would be very backend dependent and would involve walking up the widget tree to find the QMainWindow (in qt speak) and grabbing it's RGBA buffer. Tom On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > I am *this* close to completing an "interactive session recorder"

[matplotlib-devel] savefig for entire canvas?

2014-10-18 Thread Benjamin Root
I am *this* close to completing an "interactive session recorder" example for my book using the animation framework (yeah, you read that right...). However, since it is based on the usual savefig() action, you don't see the buttons or the coordinate display in the corner. Is there a way to save fra

[matplotlib-devel] google summer of code student

2014-10-18 Thread Thomas Caswell
We should be a mentoring organization for next summer. The organization application period is coming up in a few months (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015), and if we are going to do this we need to have a list of viable projects for a summer student. I suspect that these