RE: [Matplotlib-users] Trouble saving plots to file with 0.53.1

[Sajec, M. T. <ms...@tq...>]

	>>>>> From:	John Hunter [SMTP:jdh...@ac...]

		JDH,> This is something I haven't seen before.  
		JDH,> What platform are you on: windows, linux, os x?

	Windows (NT4.0 and 2000)

		JDH,> I recommend the following
		JDH,>  * make sure your hard drive isn't full 
		JDH,>  * open up a shell and change into a directory you
have write
		JDH,>  permission to and make sure you can write a file to
that dir
		JDH,>  * create the following test script
		JDH,> from matplotlib.matlab import *
		JDH,> plot([1,2,3])
		JDH,> savefig('testfig')
		JDH,> * run this from the shell with
		JDH,> python testscript.py -dAgg
		JDH,>  * see if the file testfig.png is created

	This works fine.  The Agg backend work fine for me.

		JDH,> *see if the file testfig.png is created if so, 
		JDH,> figure out what is different about what you are
doing....

	I've been using the WXAgg backend interactively from a WX based
shell.  So, basically I do the following:
	1) plot([1,2,3]) and the plot appears
	2) click the save icon on the displayed
	3) save as "v53WXAggPlot.jpg"
	4) No file is saved.... No errors given. 

	I've also tried replacing steps 2-3 with:
savefig(d:\v53WXAggPlot.jpg"), but had the same results

	So, decided to try idle -n with the TkAgg backend (interactive mode
= On).
	1) plot([1,2,3]), and the plot appears
	3) click the save icon on the displayed plot
	4) saved as "v53TkAggPlot.png"
	5) It saved!

	I've also tried replacing steps 3-4 with:
savefig("d:\v53TkAggPlot2.jpg"), and it saved too!


	So, finally I decided to go back to matplotlib 0.51 using a wx based
shell w/the WX backend with interactive mode Off ( interactive wouldn't work
for me in V0.51).
	1) plot([1,2,3])
	2) show() and the plot appears
	3) click the save icon on the displayed plot
	4) saved as "v51WXPlot.jpg"
	5) It saved!

	Could this be an issue isolated to the WXAgg backend in V0.51-3?

	Mike