[Matplotlib-users] Re: eps output from TkAgg

[matthew a. <ma...@ca...>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, matthew arnison wrote:

> * if I savefig('file.eps') from the TkAgg backend, the EPS file is sized 
> to something much bigger than A4 (but it still works fine from the GTK 
> backend)

I've just found I've had similar problems saving EPS figures from the GTK
backend of matplotlib 0.51 too.

Plus TkAgg doesn't like it if you close a plot using the window close box 
(not the X in the toolbar):

[I have TkAgg as my default backend in ~/.matplotlibrc and interactive 
set to True]

$ python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from matplotlib.matlab import *
>>> x = arange(0.0, 3.14, 0.01)
>>> plot(x, sin(x))
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x84143b4>]

... click on window close button (not toolbar close button) ...

>>> plot(x, sin(x))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/matplotlib/matlab.py", line 788, 
in plot
    draw_if_interactive()
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
line 46, in draw_if_interactive
    figManager.show()
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
line 121, in show
    self.window.deiconify()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1343, in wm_deiconify
    return self.tk.call('wm', 'deiconify', self._w)
TclError: can't invoke "wm" command:  application has been destroyed

m.