Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread Norbert Nemec
John Hunter wrote: >> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Norbert> This functionality was never there, so nobody can miss > Norbert> it. Before my changes, the options in matplotlibrc only > Norbert> allowed to specify fixed colors for mfc an

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread John Hunter
On another note, I get messages like mpl/examples> python simple_plot.py -dAgg Bad key "lines.markeredgecolor" on line 48 in /home/jdhunter/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc. You probably need to get an updated matplotlibrc file from http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc or from the matplotlib s

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread John Hunter
> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Norbert> This functionality was never there, so nobody can miss Norbert> it. Before my changes, the options in matplotlibrc only Norbert> allowed to specify fixed colors for mfc and mec. This is Norbert> now not possible a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread Norbert Nemec
John Hunter wrote: >> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > >> This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other > >> case, a rcfile-option will not help anyway. > > Eric> This sounds ideal to me--it makes everything simpler, both >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: >>"Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other > >> case, a rcfile-option will not help anyway. > > Eric> This sounds ideal to me--it makes everything simpler, both > Eric> in t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread John Hunter
> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other >> case, a rcfile-option will not help anyway. Eric> This sounds ideal to me--it makes everything simpler, both Eric> in the code and in explaining what the b

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, >>Either I am not understanding you correctly, or we have fundamentally >>different views of the role of matplotlibrc values. The way I see it, >>function args and kwargs *always* override matplotlibrc values, which in >>turn *always* override built-in defaults. So in the example ab

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc generation

2006-10-11 Thread Norbert Nemec
John Hunter wrote: >> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Eric> 1) generate matplotlibrc with almost everything commented > Eric> out by default > > +2 > > Hopefully, this will address the problem of all the deprecated rc > warnings people are getti

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib.template now mostly commented out

2006-10-11 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hello everybody, after discussion with Eric Firing and John Hunter (see thread "marker color handling"), I just changed matplotlib.template on SVN: All the lines duplicating the default values already set in defaultParam (lib/matplotlib/__init__.py) are now commented out in matplotlibrc.template

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-11 Thread Norbert Nemec
Eric Firing wrote: > Norbert, > >>> >>> The problem in r2790: I changed the default value in matplotlibrc to 'auto' and everything worked fine for me. I forgot that, of course, anybody updating from an older version, would still have the values 'blue' and 'black' in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] custom symbol patch

2006-10-11 Thread John Hunter
> "Manuel" == Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manuel> John Hunter wrote: >>> "Manuel" == Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Manuel> Hi, I just submitted a patch to sourceforge and also Manuel> attached it to this email: >> Manuel> The applied pat

Re: [matplotlib-devel] custom symbol patch

2006-10-11 Thread Manuel Metz
John Hunter wrote: >> "Manuel" == Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Manuel> Hi, I just submitted a patch to sourceforge and also > Manuel> attached it to this email: > > Manuel> The applied patch modifies the files axes.py and > Manuel> collections.py. > > Man