In [1]: gcf().set_figsize_inches((8,8),forward=True)
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exceptions.TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/fperez/code/python/pylab/arrows/<ipython console>
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py in set_figsize_inches(self, *args, **kwargs)
266 canvasw = w*dpival
267 canvash = h*dpival
--> 268 self.canvas.resize(int(canvasw), int(canvash))
269
270 def get_size_inches(self):
TypeError: resize() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
A quick look at the backends code shows this:
def resize(self, event):
width, height = event.width, event.height
self.toolbar.configure(width=width) # , height=height)
So quite obviously, this doesn't work: it's expecting an event object, and a pair of numbers is being passed.
I'm not sure what the proper fix should be here, I don't really know the code flow well enough.
I should also note that the gcf().set_figsize_inches((8,8),forward=True) seems to produce a different on-screen result per backend (in some it doesn't do anything, in Qt it stretches the figure only horizontally, ...) That code seems to be pretty much broken.
I noticed that figure(figsize=(8,8)) seems to work fine, but I'm not sure how to programmatically resize an existing figure, given the above problems.
Cheers,
f