[Matplotlib-users] poor performance scaling in number of tick marks

2014-06-20 Thread Joel B. Mohler
I have observed that the amount of time to draw a figure with a plot depends heavily on the number of tick marks on the axes. This appears to be a major driver of perceived refresh performance on interactive graphics in PySide (for example). Somewhat tangentially this makes log axes appear to per

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colors

2014-06-20 Thread Bruno Pace
Ok! I'm getting there! I've been trying to figure out, though, how to set black - for example - for the zero values BUT interpolate also the colors linearly from black to blue in the linear region (from zero to the linear threshold). Is there a way to change the colormap like that? Thanks a lot! O

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 'save file' GUI dialog

2014-06-20 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hey Tom, It looks like the only backend-agnostic file save function is save_figure() (a toolbar method), which conflates choosing a filename and doing the actual saving. The backend-specific code to choose a filename via a dialog isn't uniform: Qt4: matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4._getSaveFileNam

[Matplotlib-users] 'save file' GUI dialog

2014-06-20 Thread Thomas Robitaille
Hi everyone, I'm developing a simple GUI tool in Matplotlib that relies on the event framework to handle buttons/sliders. I am trying to avoid using a GUI toolkit directly to ensure maximum compatibility for users. One thing I would like is to be able to have a 'save' button that will open up a s