Thanks guys for your advice. My mail server has been weird since yesterday so I only just saw your messages now. In the meantime, I managed to hack and extend the LineBuilder class code snippet at http://goo.gl/RLGS to actually meet my needs better than ginput - but, obviously, much less portable and elegant; I have only been working with Python for a couple of weeks.
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:29 -0400, Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > I think this is a known bug (unfortunately, the bug fix does not seem > to be reflected in the maintenance version), but without a full > traceback, I'm not 100% sure. > > You may use the svn version which have fixed this bug, or you may try > the workaround described in the link below (check the > clabel_monkeypatching.py). > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2922835&group_id=80706&atid=560720 > > -JJ > > > > 2010/6/4 Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen <thoe...@fys.ku.dk>: > > Hello list; > > > > I'm new to python/matplotlib, migrating from IDL. I need to do some > > interactive point selection with mouse, and the pyplot.ginput() routine > > seemed to be just the right thing here. I do however need to be able to > > make a not previously specified number of clicks, so ginput(n=0) is a > > requirement. > > > > However, when I press enter on my laptop (with no middle mouse button), > > I get the error message: > > > > TypeError: stop_event_loop() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given) > > > > I've tried two different pieces of example code from the matplotlib SF > > page. > > I'm using Matplotlib 0.99.1 on Ubuntu 10.04. > > Is there any solution or workaround? If I cannot have this > > functionality, it is, unfortunately, kind of a deal breaker for at least > > some of my work, and I'd like to keep it purely Python. > > > > Best regards; > > > > Emil > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > _______________________________________________ > > Matplotlib-users mailing list > > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users