[Matplotlib-users] Re: could not load matplotlib icon

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

Thanks heaps. That made things quiet once more.

While I was in there I noticed the stanza at the top which includes:

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')

Can I suggest wrapping this with a check for py2exe? Like so:

if not hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
     import pygtk
     pygtk.require('2.0')

This is because pygtk.require does not work with py2exe.

I guess this really a bug in pygtk. But since it is a show stopper at 
deployment time (as I discovered), I suggest it is important enough to 
provide this work around in matplotlib.

Cheers,
Matthew.

Steve Chaplin wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:24,
> mat...@li... wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I keep getting this error when my matplotlib gtk app starts up:
>>
>>Could not load matplotlib icon: Couldn't recognize the image file 
>>format 
>>for file 'C:\Python23\share\matplotlib\matplotlib.svg'
>>
>>I don't *think* it's my fault. It doesn't seem to do any harm but it's
>>untidy all the same.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Matthew.
> 
> 
> It looks like the problem is happening because your version of GTK does
> include a GDK pixbuf loader for SVG files.
> 
> You can disable the message by editing the installed backend_gtk.py
> (or editing the source file
> matplotlib\lib\matplotlib\backends\backend_gtk.py
> and reinstalling)
> and changing
> "verbose.report_error('Could not load matplotlib icon: %s' %
> sys.exc_info()[1])"
> to 
> "verbose.report('Could not load matplotlib icon: %s' %
> sys.exc_info()[1])"
> or just "pass".
> 
> The fix has also been applied to CVS.
> 
> Steve
>