Re: [Matplotlib-users] backend_wx and 0.98.0

[James A. B. <jb...@se...>]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, John Hunter wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:21 PM, James A. Benson
> wrote:
>>
>>   My app uses the wx backend, so I happened to notice
>> that the backend_wx doesn't seem to work with
>> matplotlib 0.98.0. Running the 0.98 example embedding_in_wx.py
>> shows the problem. Only a bit of the lines get plotted. The
>> pan up/down zoom in/out all show various error messages.
>> When i revert back to 0.91.3 and run the same 0.91 example
>> it works fine.
>
> Hey James, we were discussing problems with the wx backend on 0.98
> yesterday on the devel list, and Ken offered to take a look at them,
> so it is possible we will have those fixed for the next bugfix
> release.  What wx version are you using?
>

Sorry, I forgot to include that important detail. I
see the problem on a Linux F8 machine with wx version 2.8.7.1

> Note that unless you are running over an x11 connection, there is
> little reason to prefer wx over wxagg, which has better rendering and
> more features.  Over an x11 connection, wxagg is slow because it has
> to pass the who bitmap over the wire, but otherwise it works great.
>
> JDH
>

Thanks for the advice and later comments on this thread from
Michael. Sounds like i'm definitely doing the right
thing by switching from the wx backend to perhaps any other backend.
I'm going with the qt4 backend.

Thanks,

Jim