Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Droettboom
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Christopher Barker wrote: >> Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> Wx supports polycurves in its new wxGraphicsContext API (but not the >>> wxDC API that mpl uses now). This means a fairly complete rewrite of >>> the wx backend, >> not necessarily. You can create a GraphicsCo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Ken McIvor
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > > So, we need to look at the pros/cons of continuing to support these > legacy APIs going forward. I've got some more benchmarks for the WX and WXAgg backends in trunk. It looks like using ssh with compression or the NX remote desktop b

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Christopher Barker wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: >> Wx supports polycurves in its new wxGraphicsContext API (but not the >> wxDC API that mpl uses now). This means a fairly complete rewrite of >> the wx backend, > > not necessarily. You can create a GraphicsContext from a wx.DC, you may >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Ken McIvor
On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > > I wonder if there is another way to speed that up with Agg -- can you > compress the bitmap data to pass it to the Xserver? is that happening > already? I'm not aware of any obvious method for enabling compression in remote X11 connectio

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Firing
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:23:54AM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> So, we need to look at the pros/cons of continuing to support these >>> legacy APIs going forward. >> IMHO a gtk and a wx back end are very important for embedding MPL in >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Barker
Michael Droettboom wrote: > Wx supports polycurves in its new wxGraphicsContext API (but not the > wxDC API that mpl uses now). This means a fairly complete rewrite of > the wx backend, not necessarily. You can create a GraphicsContext from a wx.DC, you may be able to just add that step for dr

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:23:54AM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> So, we need to look at the pros/cons of continuing to support these >> legacy APIs going forward. > > IMHO a gtk and a wx back end are very important for embedding MPL in > applications. I am sure you ha

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:23:54AM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: > So, we need to look at the pros/cons of continuing to support these > legacy APIs going forward. IMHO a gtk and a wx back end are very important for embedding MPL in applications. I am sure you have a replacement proposition, bu

[matplotlib-devel] Backends status on transforms branch

2007-11-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
The following drawing backends are functional on the transforms branch: Agg Ps Pdf * Svg Cairo * * These could still use some optimizations to draw_markers and/or draw_path_collection. Now onto the "problem" ones. I had asked on the mailing list a while