Re: [matplotlib-devel] Qt backend

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jody" == Jody Winston <jos...@ma...> writes:

    Jody> The real reason that I am working on Cairo and matplotlib is
    Jody> that I want a portable way to display output from ATT's
    Jody> graphviz.  From my quick look through matplotlib's code, it
    Jody> looks like this may be hard to do.  So, if I continue this
    Jody> project, I'll also be asking how to render ploygons,
    Jody> ellipses, and text.  Do you think that matplotlib is a good
    Jody> fit given my requirements?

Without commenting on goodness of fit, I'll add that matplotlib has
fundamental elements for polygons (matplotlib.patches.Polygon) and
text (matplotlib.text.Text) and it would be straightforward to add a
dedicated ellipse class (currently we just use polygons for ellipses)
and Ted also has an interest in creating an ellipse class for scale
free renderering, eg in the postscript backend.

JDH