Re: [Matplotlib-users] movies

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Firing
Alan G Isaac wrote: Someone said: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#MOVIE OK, this works. But might it be a possible goal for Matplotlib to be able to assemble these PNGs into an APNG? URL:http://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification I don't think it makes sense for mpl to do this;

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to save animation

2008-07-01 Thread sa6113
Unfortuantly this link dosen't help me. Would be please help me more clear. sa6113 wrote: Thanks for your help but there is a problem while I using this code, it raises an error : mencoder is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to save animation

2008-07-01 Thread Lionel Roubeyrie
Hi, install mencoder :-) sa6113 a écrit : Unfortuantly this link dosen't help me. Would be please help me more clear. sa6113 wrote: Thanks for your help but there is a problem while I using this code, it raises an error : mencoder is not recognized as an internal or external command,

[Matplotlib-users] saving an animation using GTKAgg backend

2008-07-01 Thread sa6113
May I use GTKAgg backend in order to save an animation. how? please help me. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/saving-an-animation-using-GTKAgg-backend-tp18211607p18211607.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Matplotlib-users] APNG support?

2008-07-01 Thread Mark Bakker
I think APNG suppot woudl be very cool. Would it be hard to write a simple Python script that creates an APNG file from a set of PNG files? That would be really killer. Just as important, I was wondering what programs support APNG. It works fine in my Firefox 3, but I also need it in some

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Axis Limits and Dash Text Misbehaviours

2008-07-01 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 30 June 2008 09:01:48 John Hunter wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Andrea Gavana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like Michael changes were reverted back to the previous behaviour. I have scanned the matplotlib-devel archives and found the reason. Even if the message says

Re: [Matplotlib-users] saving an animation using GTKAgg backend

2008-07-01 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 04:26:38 sa6113 wrote: May I use GTKAgg backend in order to save an animation. how? please help me. Install mencoder and follow the FAQ I pointed out yesterday. - Check out the new SourceForge.net

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread Darren Dale
In lib/matplotlib/__init__.py, set NEWCONFIG=False and reinstall. On Tuesday 01 July 2008 00:02:51 Gideon Simpson wrote: Just tried the 0.98.2, and am still getting: help modules Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 0.98.2 release?

2008-07-01 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Adam Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Has matplotlib-0.98.2 been officially released? The reason I'm asking is that the web page still states that 0.98.1 is the release and the 0.98.2 tar ball is under the 0.98.1 release on the sourceforge download page?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] movies

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
I agree with Eric, that it would be probably overextending matplotlib too much to support this natively. However, it might be nice to have a self-contained function that would call out to mencoder or ImageMagick to create an animation from a list of PNGs. That would make it easier to automate

Re: [Matplotlib-users] saving an animation using GTKAgg backend

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
Can you be more specific about what you've tried already from the FAQ and how it failed? Cheers, Mike sa6113 wrote: May I use GTKAgg backend in order to save an animation. how? please help me. -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread Gideon Simpson
It's already set to False I've completely blown away my installation, including removing ~/.matplotlib, and this problem is still showing up. -gideon On Jul 1, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Darren Dale wrote: In lib/matplotlib/__init__.py, set NEWCONFIG=False and reinstall. On Tuesday 01 July 2008

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Gideon Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's already set to False I've completely blown away my installation, including removing ~/.matplotlib, and this problem is still showing up. -gideon Please run a test pylab script with --verbose-debug and post the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread Gideon Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] python simple_plot.py --verbose-debug run.out $HOME=/Users/gideon CONFIGDIR=/Users/gideon/.matplotlib matplotlib data path /opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl- data loaded rc file /opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/ matplotlibrc matplotlib version

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Gideon Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] python simple_plot.py --verbose-debug run.out $HOME=/Users/gideon CONFIGDIR=/Users/gideon/.matplotlib matplotlib data path /opt/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl- data loaded rc file

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread Gideon Simpson
### MATPLOTLIBRC FORMAT # This is a sample matplotlib configuration file - you can find a copy # of it on your system in # site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc. If you edit it # there, please note that it will be overridden in your next install. # If you want to keep a permanent local

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Gideon Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: python -c 'import matplotlib; print matplotlib.__file__' python simple_plot.py --verbose-debug run.out\ There was no traceback in run.out -- does this mean everything is working for you now? JDH

Re: [Matplotlib-users] help error

2008-07-01 Thread Gideon Simpson
matplotlib itself seems to work, in the sense that it makes figures and puts the lines in the right places. however, that error is still showing up if i go to help() then modules On Jul 1, 2008, at 11:01 AM, John Hunter wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Gideon Simpson [EMAIL

Re: [Matplotlib-users] gcf() problem

2008-07-01 Thread sordnay
I've submited the bug, I also tried to think about a solution, but this is not trivial at all for me hehe, I'm still learning how to use this wonderful piece of software (thank you all who did developed it btw) I think figure should simply call _pylab_helpers.Gcf.set_active(figManager)

[Matplotlib-users] AssertionError in symlog_demo.py

2008-07-01 Thread Orest Kozyar
When I try to run symlog_demo.py in version 98.1, I get the following AssertionError. Should __call__ of the SymmetricalLogLocator be calling transform on vmin and vmax separately? Any advice? Thanks, Orest $ python symlog_demo.py

[Matplotlib-users] Error with 'symlog' when vmin=0

2008-07-01 Thread Orest Kozyar
The following code fails with a math range error: from pylab import * plot(arange(5), 'ro') xscale('symlog') The traceback indicates that the ticker is attempting to treat vmin (which falls inside the linear portion of the SymLog scale) as a log value, which obviously fails when vmin=0. If vmin

[Matplotlib-users] inverse scale on twinx()

2008-07-01 Thread Simon
Hello to everybody, since I looked serveral days in vain to find a solution to my problem, I would like to ask you for help! Problem: I want to plot at least three timeseries in one chart. Two timeseries are to be plotted as lines in a normal scale. The third timeseries (in my case these are

[Matplotlib-users] solution found for: inverse scale on twinx()

2008-07-01 Thread Simon
Hello Admins of matplotlib-users, just now - after I wrote you - I found the solution in your mailing list... hmmm for the case anybody is interessted: You have to add ax_p.set_ylim(ax_p.get_ylim()[::-1]) to get an inverse scaling on an y-axis. The solution is from Eric Firing and to

[Matplotlib-users] Horizontal aligned legend

2008-07-01 Thread Sebastian Krieger
Hi folks! I was wondering if it's possible to have legends that are horizontaly aligned instead of verticaly? Thanks in advance. Sebastian - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have