Re: [Matplotlib-users] GTKAgg Win XP

[Mark H. <mh...@cl...>]

Yes GTKAgg seems to work on my set up with pythonwin. However, i'm new to 
both python and matplotlib (installed it 3 days ago) and I haven't run all 
your test scripts yet, but the ones I've tried do work. Also it works from 
the pythonwin command prompt provided you don't go:

matplotlib.interactive(True)

This will do one plot and then GPF (but with a different message from the 
one given when using TKAgg etc). I did get some overlayed plots working from 
the command prompt yesterday but can't remember what I was doing 
differently.

BTW have set the window controls to classic in the cfg file which allows 
zoom, pan and saving to PS/Png (and the images import into Lyx (Win 32 
version) with no problems), not sure that the "newfangled" one works 
correctly - couldn't make the window zoom and pan, but maybe just 
incompetence.

Mark

P.S. I notice someone else in the list had a problem downloading the user 
guide. I had a similar problem - acrobat thinks the PDF is corrupted, but 
the alternate link you gave works fine.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hunter" <jdh...@ac...>
To: "Mark Hailes" <mh...@cl...>
Cc: <mat...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] GTKAgg Win XP


>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Hailes <mh...@cl...> writes:
>
>    Mark> Hi In case anyone has the same problem getting GTKAgg (I
>    Mark> think this is the best option for use with pythonwin & Idle
>    Mark> & pycrust since the default TKAgg causes GPF) to work on win
>    Mark> XP, note that the current version of pyGTK for windows -
>    Mark> pygtk-2.4.1-2.win32-py2.4.exe doesn't work with the versions
>    Mark> of GTK available from the page linked to in the matplotlib
>    Mark> faq owing to an unresolved dll reference. However,
>    Mark> gtk-win32-2.6.1-rc3.exe will work. I think that GTK has some
>    Mark> parallel development strands, which is confusing ...
>
> Hmm, good to know. So you're saying gtkagg works from pythonwin?  That
> would be *very nice* for windows users.  I'll take a look at the
> installers you are suggesting, because I've had a hard time finding an
> environment to suggest to win32 matplotlib users, particularly
> newbies.  The pythonwin environment, in my opinion, is very nice for
> windows users because it has the native win32 look and feel, but I
> wasn't aware of any matplotlib backends that could be used within it
> due to GUI conflict issues.  Have you tried gtkagg with this gtk
> release in win32, both in script mode (Eg "Run") and in interactive
> mode (eg entering plot commands at the shell)?
>
> JDH
>
>