In learning matplotlib's backend API I played around in starting a
Quartz image backend. FWIW I am posting this if anyone wants to have a
look. I made a quick page on my wiki:
http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/wiki/index.php/Matplotlib
I am probably more interested in starting a PyObjC backend to provide
interactive and agg options as well. Is this something that should wait
for the backend refactoring???
- Charlie
Charles Moad wrote:
In learning matplotlib's backend API I played around in starting a
Quartz image backend. FWIW I am posting this if anyone wants to have a
look. I made a quick page on my wiki:
The last time I looked at the Apple-provided wrappers, I found them to be inadequate for drawing stuff. If I remember correctly, some of the arguments require arrays of <Foo>, but they never wrote the typemaps to convert Python lists of <Foo> to the appropriate <FooPtr>. Worse, there's no source or documentation; you have to fly blind with the SWIGged API.
So I wrote ABCGI (A Better CoreGraphics Interface; I'm uncreative). It's part of Enthought's Kiva, but it could be trivially ripped out to stand alone.
http://svn.enthought.com/svn/enthought/branches/converge/kiva/mac/
It's more complete than the Apple wrappers, and plays nicely with Numeric. It would need some numerixifying to play nicely with matplotlib, probably. It plays nicely with PyObjC and PIL, too.
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