Re: [matplotlib-devel] Number of points in legend

2008-06-24 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Stéfan van der Walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to bump the thread, but has anyone had a chance to take a look? I've re-attached the patch. Thanks for the reminder and sorry for the delay getting back. The problem in the patch was that the

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib hangs

2008-06-24 Thread Nils Wagner
Hi all, Since *yesterday* I have some trouble with pylab. Some program hang. I cannot use Ctrl C to kill them. Ctrl Z works. If I use ps I get 1091 pts/500:00:02 python 1119 pts/500:00:00 gs defunct gs is somehow connected to my problem. I can kill the job by kill -9 1091. Then the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib hangs

2008-06-24 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:22:34 am Nils Wagner wrote: Hi all, Since *yesterday* I have some trouble with pylab. Some program hang. I cannot use Ctrl C to kill them. Ctrl Z works. If I use ps I get 1091 pts/500:00:02 python 1119 pts/500:00:00 gs defunct gs is somehow

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib hangs

2008-06-24 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Nils Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply and sorry for my rudimental bug report. BTW, is the transparency option for png files in progress ? I believe the unspoken consensus was it is easy to set the alpha on the figurePatch and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PNG transparency

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Droettboom
John wrote: I believe the unspoken consensus was it is easy to set the alpha on the figurePatch and axesPatch so a global alpha was unneccessary. It still might be convenient to make this an option on savefig. Sure it's only a few lines of code, but not necessarily obvious lines of code.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib hangs

2008-06-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:59 AM, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fault -- I was working on adding an idle event handler across backends and implemented something using threads for tkagg and haven't solved the problem of cross thread signal handling. That's a nasty problem. See

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Feature request for a watermark function

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Droettboom
There are a couple of different ways this could be done. Alpha-blending over top of the image (should work for everything but Postscript): gcf().text(0.1, 0.1, Watermark, rotation=45, fontproperties=FontProperties(size=64), alpha=0.2) Or under the axes as described here:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Feature request for a watermark function

2008-06-24 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a couple of different ways this could be done. Alpha-blending over top of the image (should work for everything but Postscript): gcf().text(0.1, 0.1, Watermark, rotation=45,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Feature request for a watermark function

2008-06-24 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Nils Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I would like to display an image (png format) 'under' several lines. Assuming that a watermark function will be supported by mpl, it would be nice to have an example in matplotlib/examples/pylab_examples [EMAIL