Re: [Matplotlib-users] Widgets

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

>>>>> "GStephen" == Stephen Walton <ste...@cs...> writes:

    GStephen> As a new user of matplotlib, I'm surprised I haven't
    GStephen> seen this mentioned, offhand, in the mailing list
    GStephen> archive.  I am not seeing the redraw or close widgets on
    GStephen> the plot windows I produce.  The platform is Fedora Core
    GStephen> 1, although I built on RHEL3 because matplotlib-0.60-2
    GStephen> won't build on FC1 (some problem with tk-devel,
    GStephen> apparently).

Your post says you are a new user but the content suggests you've used
matplotlib before.  In early versions there was both a redraw button
and a close button.  The former was there because sometimes the figure
would get into an inconsistent state (after exposes, or resizes for
example) but these problems were fixed and I no longer saw a need for
it.  The close button was dropped after Steve Chaplin pointed me to
some user interface design guidelines that argued close buttons should
never be placed on toolbars.  So it is by design that these are
missing.  Is this a problem for you?

As for the FC1 problem, perhaps Fernando Perez can comment - I
believe he has used matplotlib with FC1.  I have no experience here.

JDH