Hi Nathan, > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:33:19 AM UTC+11, vdelecroix wrote: >> >> * the matplotlib widgets: Sage right now uses matplotlib for main >> graphics capabilities. matplpotlib comes with a very complete and >> useful library for making interactive graphics in native windows (with >> cursors and all kind of things you may imagine). Note that I was not >> able to make it work within Sage...
2014-03-09 5:10 UTC+01:00, Nathan Dunfield <nat...@dunfield.info>: > > Late to this party, but I thought I would mention that I have successfully > used some of the matplotlib interactive widgets from within Sage on both OS > X and Linux. Specifically, I have used the Tk variant on both platforms; > you do have to recompile matplotlib since by default Sage chooses not to > compile any of the GUI backends. Check out > > http://dunfield.info/temp/tkplot.py > > for a complete example, including precisely what one needs to do to > recompile matplotlib for this to work. > > Probably the other GUI backends could be made to work (they all look pretty > > much the same, actually), but the Tk one is the one I needed at the time > and so the only one I tried. This is great and works as well for me ! Does anybody knows why matplotlib is built without GUI support by default ? Does it make sense to enable it (if dependencies are satisfied) ? Vincent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
