Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: [AstroPy] Announcing matplotlib v0.61

[Gregory L. <gre...@ff...>]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 20:45, Paul Barrett wrote:
> Nor Pirzkal wrote:
> > 
> >     I really like the way matplotlib has been turning out. As a Mac 
> > user, I was wondering how portable to Aquaterm the entire thing might 
> > be. Any idea if a aqua front-end is in the work. While tcl/tk WX etc.. 
> > works well under OSX, it is a lot of stuff to have to compile and 
> > install for a plotting package.
> 
> No. There is currently no Aqua front-end being developed that I am aware of.
> 
> Have you any interest in developing one for Aqua?  I'd suggest an AquaAgg/MacAgg 
> backend, i.e. use Agg to do the rendering and Aqua to do the windowing, such as 
> is done with GtkAgg, WXAgg, and TkAgg.  Once the GUI wrapper is done, most of 
> matplotlib comes along for free.

Hi,
I confirm this, I wrote an fltkAgg backend without much experience of
matplotlib or gui programming to start with, by modification of an
existing *Agg (TkAgg, which is the best to start with as GtkAgg and
WXAgg have non-Agg version, and inherit most of their windowing methods
from the non-Agg version...so a copy and modify approach is not as
easy)...This took me a few days, some used for extending fltk and agg
for speed optimization...So I guess, except if Aqua is really different
from other toolkit, it should be a 1-2 day work for any Aqua/python
guru, at most :-)
So, any volunteer? ;-)

Greg.