[Matplotlib-users] Test results and new questions, was : Please h elp with wxAgg

[Marinescu Bogdan-b. <bog...@fr...>]

	Hi John,

	Thanks for the quick reply, I was really happy to download 
the snapshot and see that it works. I tested in on wxPython 2.5.1.5 
without problems, it would probably work the same on 2.4.2.4. I'm
not quite familiar with the toolbar functions, so I don't know if 
the results I'm getting are right. The "home" button seems to do
something, I can see a visual indication of the repaint when I
press it. On the other hand, the "pan" button seems to be disabled;
even if I can press it, I'm unable to select it (or it isn't
supposed to be selectable?) Maybe this is normal for the example 
that you sent in your e-mail? Because of this, I can't test the
functionality of the back/forward buttons. The "zoom to rect" button
also seems to be disable, probably because I didn't use the zoom
function, which is also related to the "pan" button, if I understand
it correctly. The "save" button worked when trying to save a PNG image,
but the program exited with a "Do not know know to handle extension *.jpg"
message printed on the console when trying to save a JPG image. Again,
I don't know if this behavior is correct or not, I'm just posting
my results. I don't plan on using the toolbar in my application, I have
another (specialized) toolbar and I'll be using its functions.
	The new event handling mechanism is great and it's exactly what
I needed. However, I have a couple of fresh new questions for you :)
	The first one was also present in my previous e-mail. When I create
the 
plot it has very large margins to the parent frame. This is not convenient
to 
me, as I'd like to have a plot that is as large as possible and margins 
as small as possible. Is there a way to modify these margins?
	The other one is really new and it is related to printing. Is there
a way to print directly from the library? I'm aware of the image save/image
print combo and I can use it if I have no other option. However, at this
point my application (which is quite critical) blocks every task switching
combination (ctrl+atl+del included, together with alt+tab and all the
others)
in order to force the user to use this application and ONLY this 
application. If I choose the "image save" option I'll be forced to give
up this feature, and I don't want that, as I _KNOW_ that they'll start to
play starcraft in a flash :) Unless there is some Python source somewhere
that can send an image to the printer. I've been searching for it, but 
never found it. I also had this problem with PyPlot, that offers 
printing functions, but they don't seem to work :( (this was tested on
two different printers). Then again, the "Print framework" sample
from the wxPython 2.5.1.5 demo also crashed when trying to print,
so I imagine that the printing support in wxPython is not at its
best at this point :( If anybody has a solution for this, please let
me know.
	Thank you all for your help.

	Bogdan

>>>>> "Bogdan" == Bogdan Marinescu <bogdanal@b.astral.ro> writes:
    Bogdan>     Hello all, First I want to apologize for sending this
    Bogdan> message to both lists, but I couldn't decide which one is
    Bogdan> more appropriate and I would like to have an answer as
    Bogdan> soon as possible. 
Hi Bogdan, 
Either list is appropriate for this kind of post.  I think the users
is slightly better because then other users who may have seen the
error will get the benefit of the post and response.  cross-posting
will not speed up the response, but may delay it :-)
    Bogdan> I discovered matplotlib some while ago, but it wasn't
    Bogdan> until recently when I decided to integrate it into one of
    Bogdan> my programs, trying to replace PyPlot that doesn't have
    Bogdan> enough features for me. I downloaded and installed version
    Bogdan> 0.60.2. Your library seemed perfect, until I discovered
    Bogdan> some strange problems that prevented me from using it as
    Bogdan> this point :( Specifically, I'm reffering to the
    Bogdan> embedding_in_wx2.py example that I found in the 'examples'
    Bogdan> directory. I modified it as follows (sorry for inlining,
    Bogdan> but I don't know if the listserver accepts any
    Bogdan> attachements at all, I didn't use it before):
Thanks for your example.  I was able to trace the segfault (exposed on
win32 but not linux in my tests) to agg.tostring_rgb, as you noted.
On window maximizing, there was an uncaught memory allocation error
because I was allocating on the stack rather than the heap.  This is
fixed, and your (modified) example now runs fine for me on win32.
I've built a snapshot of matplotlib-0.61 for you and uploaded it to
 
http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/files/share/matplotlib-0.61.0a.win32-py2
.3.exe
You'll notice a few changes: a new navigation toolbar - see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5173059&forum_id=3618
7
for a discussion of the new icons, what they do, and how to get the
old toolbar if you want it.  As before, you can also just comment out
the set_toolbar line to remove the toolbar completely.
Also, the event handling mechanism has been changed as part of the
process of making this more generic and useful.  You now call
mpl_connect rather than connect and your callback takes a single
argument.  For example, if you want to know where the user clicks a
mouse on your figure, you define a function
def click(event):
    print 'you clicked', event.x, event.y
and register this function with the event handler
canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', click)  
Then whenever the user clicks anywhere on the figure canvas, your
function will be called and passed a
matplotlib.backend_bases.MplEvent instance.  The event instance has
the following attributes defined.
    name    # the event name
    canvas  # the FigureCanvas instance generating the event
    x       # x position - pixels from left of canvas
    y       # y position - pixels from bottom of canvas
    button  # button pressed None, 1, 2, 3
    inaxes  # the Axes instance if mouse us over axes
    xdata   # x coord of mouse in data coords
    ydata   # y coord of mouse in data coords
You can currently connect to the following events:
'button_press_event', button_release_event', 'motion_notify_event' and
I plan to add key press.
Below is your example, modified to work with 0.61.  I fixed the event
handling and took out the onpaint connection from init (this did some
funky things in my win32 tests)
Let me know how it goes: you're the first 0.61 crash test dummy.
Anyone else who wants to try this please feel free - the new toolbar
only works with GTK* and WX* in this snapshot.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
An example of how to use wx or wxagg in an application w. or w/o the toolbar
"""
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('WXAgg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWxAgg as
FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wx import NavigationToolbar2Wx
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.numerix import arange, sin, pi
from wxPython.wx import *
class Cursor:
    def __init__(self, canvas, ax):
        self.canvas = canvas
        self.ax = ax
    def mouse_move(self, event):
        x, y = event.x, event.y
        if event.inaxes:
            ax = event.inaxes
            minx, maxx = ax.get_xlim()
            miny, maxy = ax.get_ylim()
            print 'x=%1.2f, y=%1.2f'%(event.xdata, event.ydata)
class CanvasFrame(wxFrame):
    def __init__(self):
        wxFrame.__init__(self,None,-1,
                         'CanvasFrame',size=( 900,900 ) )
        self.SetBackgroundColour(wxNamedColor("WHITE"))
        self.figure = Figure( )
        self.axes = self.figure.add_subplot(111)
        t = arange(0.0,3.0,0.01)
        s = sin(2*pi*t)
        c = sin(4*pi*t)
        p = self.axes.fill(t,s,'b',t,c,'g')
        p[ 0 ].set_alpha( 0.2 )
        p[ 1 ].set_alpha( 0.2 )
        #p = self.axes.fill(t,s,'b')
        #p[ 0 ].set_alpha( 0.2 )
        #p[ 1 ].set_alpha( 0.2 )
        #self.axes.plot(t,c,'g')
        self.axes.vlines( [1.5], -1.0, 1.0 )
        self.canvas = FigureCanvas(self, -1, self.figure)
        self.sizer = wxBoxSizer(wxVERTICAL)
        self.sizer.Add(self.canvas, 1, wxTOP | wxLEFT | wxEXPAND)
        self.SetSizer(self.sizer)
        self.SetAutoLayout( True )
        self.sizer.Fit( self )
        
        cursor = Cursor(self.canvas, self.axes)
        #cursor = SnaptoCursor(canvas, ax, t, s)
        self.canvas.mpl_connect('motion_notify_event', cursor.mouse_move)
        self.add_toolbar()  # comment this out for no toolbar
        # Capture the paint message
        #EVT_PAINT(self, self.OnPaint)
        EVT_SIZE( self, self.OnSize)
    def add_toolbar(self):
        self.toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Wx(self.canvas)
        self.toolbar.Realize()
        if wxPlatform == '__WXMAC__':
            # Mac platform (OSX 10.3, MacPython) does not seem to cope with
            # having a toolbar in a sizer. This work-around gets the buttons
            # back, but at the expense of having the toolbar at the top
            self.SetToolBar(self.toolbar)
        else:
            # On Windows platform, default window size is incorrect, so set
            # toolbar width to figure width.
            tw, th = self.toolbar.GetSizeTuple()
            fw, fh = self.canvas.GetSizeTuple()
            # By adding toolbar in sizer, we are able to put it at the
bottom
            # of the frame - so appearance is closer to GTK version.
            # As noted above, doesn't work for Mac.
            self.toolbar.SetSize(wxSize(fw, th))
            self.sizer.Add(self.toolbar, 0, wxLEFT | wxEXPAND)
        # update the axes menu on the toolbar
        self.toolbar.update()
    def OnSize( self, event ):
        print "OnSize"
        print event.GetSize()
        event.Skip()
#        event.Skip()
class App(wxApp):
    def OnInit(self):
        'Create the main window and insert the custom frame'
        frame = CanvasFrame()
        frame.Show(true)
        return true
app = App(0)
app.MainLoop()