Re: [matplotlib-devel] plot_surface patch

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:20 PM, J P wrote: > Hi all, here's my first patch for matplotlib. Someone noticed at Stack > Overflow that the plot_surface function in mplot3d wasn't especially fast > for a lot of points (and small rstrides/cstrides) and using shading and a > single color. I found some

[matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Kynn Jones
Hi. I am finding that matplotlib does not allow me to decouple certain actions from the GUI as much as I'd like. For example, I have not been able to do any of the following tasks. Some of these tasks are certainly artificial, but they all succinctly illustrate some of the problems I've been run

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: Hi. I am finding that matplotlib does not allow me to decouple certain actions from the GUI as much as I'd like. For example, I have not been able to do any of the following tasks. Some of these tasks are certainly artificial, but they all succinctly

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Kynn Jones
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > > Hi. I am finding that matplotlib does not allow me to decouple certain > actions from the GUI as much as I'd like. > > For example, I have not been able to do any of the following tasks.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Michiel de Hoon
--- On Wed, 11/17/10, Kynn Jones wrote: >From a figure object:    figure.canvas.get_supported_filetypes() returns a dictionary of supported file extensions, with mapping to more detailed descriptions of each. Yes, but this solves the problem only for the non-GUI backends.  It does not w

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> On 11/17/2010 03:41 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: >> >> Hi. I am finding that matplotlib does not allow me to decouple certain >> actions from the GUI as much as I'd like. >> >> For ex

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Barker
> As an additional note, if you are having difficulty compiling for > MacOS X, why not just ask for help with that? yup -- there are some issues with which Tk is used by tkInter, but wx should be easy -- how have you tried to install? -Chris --