Re: [Matplotlib-users] Backtrace with CocoaAgg backend

[Adam M. <ram...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 21:09, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> This looks like a simple bug in which FigureCanvasBase is not
> imported.  Try replacing line 31 in
> matplotlib/backends/backend_cocoaagg.py with this::
>
>    from matplotlib.backend_bases import FigureManagerBase, FigureCanvasBase
>
> I've fixed the bug on the svn branch and trunk.

Thanks, that fixes the backtrace.

> In a somewhat unrelated note, this style of "pylab animation" is no
> longer encouraged or supported (and your example does not work with
> cocoaagg, even with the fix, on my osx box).  Rather, you should use
> the GUI timeout or idle loop for your backend to support animation, as
> in the examples in
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/index.html.
> While there are no cocoa specific examples (feel free to contribute
> one) the pattern should be fairly clear across the UIs we have
> examples for.

Thanks, I'll pass that onto the user who reported this problem to me.

Cheers

Adam