Re: [Matplotlib-users] reusing the pylab gui in a custom application (wxpython)?

[Vlastimil B. <vla...@gm...>]

2012/7/31 Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>:
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Vlastimil Brom <vla...@gm...>
> wrote:
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>> 2012/7/30 Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> I'd like to ask about the possibility to eventually reuse the gui of
>> >> pylab for showing and manipulating the plots in the custom application
>> >> (written in wxpython).
>> >> [...]
>> >> Thanks in advance for any hints
>> >>   regards
>> >>  Vlastimil Brom
>> >
>> >
>> > Absolutely! It is one of the things mpl does best. Do a search in the
>> > online
>> > documentation for "embedding codex".
>> >
>> > I hope that helps!
>> >
>> > Ben Root
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response and a useful hint!
>>
>> I apparently didn't search for the right terms before...
>> I turns out, that
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>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.html
>> shows exactly, what I need.
>>
>> By the way is there a place to propose a small correction of the example
>> code?
>> namely
>>         self.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NamedColor("WHITE"))
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>> causes an error in wxpython 2.9, which removed the "...Color" aliases
>> and only knows "...Colour"
>> hence:
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>>         self.SetBackgroundColour(wx.NamedColour("WHITE"))
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>> works in wxpython 2.9 and should be backwards compatible too.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>     vbr
>>
>
> Thanks for catching that mistake.  Unfortunately, we don't do a good enough
> job of keeping up to date on changes in various backends.  The best way to
> make sure that gets fixed is to send us a pull request on github.  At the
> very least, post an issue report on it.
>
> Ben
>
Thanks, I created an issue:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1048
about this and also tried to send the pull requests about the four
"wx.NamedColor" occurrences I could find.
Unfortunately, I haven't any experiences with code management tools
and github infrastructure, I didn't mess something up.

Regards,
  vbr