[AstroPy] Announcing matplotlib v0.61

#1

Nor Pirzkal wrote:

    I really like the way matplotlib has been turning out. As a Mac user, I was wondering how portable to Aquaterm the entire thing might be. Any idea if a aqua front-end is in the work. While tcl/tk WX etc.. works well under OSX, it is a lot of stuff to have to compile and install for a plotting package.

No. There is currently no Aqua front-end being developed that I am aware of.

Have you any interest in developing one for Aqua? I'd suggest an AquaAgg/MacAgg backend, i.e. use Agg to do the rendering and Aqua to do the windowing, such as is done with GtkAgg, WXAgg, and TkAgg. Once the GUI wrapper is done, most of matplotlib comes along for free.

What's new in matplotlib-0.61.0 -

  Note win32 pygtk users - if you encounter problems or errors related
  to svg loading, see note at end of this email.

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#2

Hi,
I confirm this, I wrote an fltkAgg backend without much experience of
matplotlib or gui programming to start with, by modification of an
existing *Agg (TkAgg, which is the best to start with as GtkAgg and
WXAgg have non-Agg version, and inherit most of their windowing methods
from the non-Agg version...so a copy and modify approach is not as
easy)...This took me a few days, some used for extending fltk and agg
for speed optimization...So I guess, except if Aqua is really different
from other toolkit, it should be a 1-2 day work for any Aqua/python
guru, at most :slight_smile:
So, any volunteer? :wink:

Greg.

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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 20:45, Paul Barrett wrote:

Nor Pirzkal wrote:
>
> I really like the way matplotlib has been turning out. As a Mac
> user, I was wondering how portable to Aquaterm the entire thing might
> be. Any idea if a aqua front-end is in the work. While tcl/tk WX etc..
> works well under OSX, it is a lot of stuff to have to compile and
> install for a plotting package.

No. There is currently no Aqua front-end being developed that I am aware of.

Have you any interest in developing one for Aqua? I'd suggest an AquaAgg/MacAgg
backend, i.e. use Agg to do the rendering and Aqua to do the windowing, such as
is done with GtkAgg, WXAgg, and TkAgg. Once the GUI wrapper is done, most of
matplotlib comes along for free.