Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib 1.0.1 Tk backend

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 09/02/2011 04:48 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...
> <mailto:ef...@ha...>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/31/2011 05:00 PM, Trevor J Christensen wrote:
>      > I went here:
>      >
>      > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/index_backend_api.html
>      >
>      > and didn't see tkagg listed.
>      >
>      > Trevor
>
>     Trevor,
>
>     Thank you.  It is still missing from the devel branch, along with
>     several others.  I can see how this could cause some confusion.  Maybe
>     we can get it fixed before the next release, maybe not.
>
>     Part of the problem here is that auto-generation of docs saves a huge
>     amount of work, but can also lead to problems, of which this is just one
>     example.
>
>     Eric
>
>
> It wouldn't be that difficult to add references to those other backends,
> however I do not know how complete their documentations are.  As an
> interesting note, the GTKAgg API docs are currently commented out with a
> note saying that an active X-window session is needed to import the GTK
> backends.  Was this preventing the GTK docs from building?  How come do
> other GUI backends still build fine?

That seems to be just a peculiarity of the particular gui toolkits.  It 
is possible to import the others without a display; they don't fail 
until one tries to plot something.

Eric

>
> Ben Root
>