[matplotlib-devel] SpanSelector with gtk3cairo backend

2014-11-10 Thread Arnaud Gardelein
SpanSelector is a powerful widget that allows to define a particular region in a Figure. Some time ago I switched to python3 and needed to use gtk3cairo instead of gtkagg; to my knowledge there is still a message preventing using agg backend with python3. Unfortunately since then I am not able to u

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SpanSelector with gtk3cairo backend

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Caswell
Not sure what you mean about agg + py3k, it should work fine (as we test it). The issue is that the cairo backend is a vector backend, which does not have a notion of blitting, which is something that span selector uses to make it nice and snappy. Should be able to get it to work by passing the k