[Matplotlib-users] default zorder for plots?

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Chris Withers wrote: I tried fiddling with the zorder of the plot and the grid but nothing had any effect. What am I doing wrong? How do I get the grid to show up behind the lines? Actually, I did manage to fix this by specifying a zorder of 10 for the plots and a zorder of 1 for the grids

[Matplotlib-users] bar chart with dates on x-axis blows up

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
I go about adding a second set of bars? (ie: from data2)? (Bear in mind that in the real use, there are over 600 days worth of data, so I want to take advantage of the normal tick locators, etc as much as possible...) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting

Re: [Matplotlib-users] placing legend outside of plot area

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
of the parameters or at least ensure that all labels have the same widths. Yeah :-/ This is where I am... If anyone has any magic code or suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

[Matplotlib-users] Gappy bars when no edge specified?

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Why does the following render small gaps horizontally between the bars? import pylab data = [1,2,1,2,4,2] labels = pylab.arange(len(data1)) pylab.bar(labels,data1,width=1,linewidth=0) pylab.show() How do I make the small gaps go away? cheers, Chris

[Matplotlib-users] gradient fills for bar charts?

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Is there any way in MPL to do gradient filled bars like you can in Excel? (click data series - format data series - patterns - fill effects - gradient - diagonal up) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Gappy bars when no edge specified?

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Eric Firing wrote: How do I make the small gaps go away? With svn I don't see any gaps in the example above, either on screen or when saved to a png file. That's cool'n'all, but when is svn going to make it into a Windows binary release? ;-) cheers, Chris - not sure how to compile MPL

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting with missing data?

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Withers
Eric Firing wrote: Chris, Use masked arrays. See masked_demo.py in the mpl examples subdirectory. Hi Eric, I took a look at that, but it uses: import matplotlib.numerix.npyma as ma ...and matplotlib.numerix isn't listed in the API reference. Where are the docs for this? Specifically

[Matplotlib-users] placing legend outside of plot area

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Withers
allow. cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008

Re: [Matplotlib-users] placing legend outside of plot area

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Withers
save the figure to. How can I have the legend as placed above but with the whole of it showing? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to remove an xlabel?

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Withers
Matthias Michler wrote: you can try xlabel of an empty string: xlabel(' ') Thanks, and yes, a truly empty string xlabel(''), works :-) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

Re: [Matplotlib-users] placing legend outside of plot area

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Withers
that? (and thanks to Matthias for all his help! :-) ) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges

Re: [Matplotlib-users] visualisation for utility usage sought

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Withers
more sense? Any ideas? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R

[Matplotlib-users] plotting with missing data?

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Withers
like the point not to be there, not just down the bottom of the graph...) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Export plot to Word

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Withers
for Matplotlib, right?) If you really insist on trying with Word, your best bet is to interact with Word via the win32com package... cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

[Matplotlib-users] Unable to Plot Date Axis Due To TypeError: a float is required

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Spencer
I'm getting a nonsensical error when attempting to make a simple plot with a date axis. Googling shows this similar errors, but none with a date axis. What could be causing this? import datetime from pylab import figure, show fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) dates =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [newbie] live plots of multiple lines

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Withers
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] [newbie] live plots of multiple lines

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Withers
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Chris Withers apparently wrote: the first time I call show() http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#SHOW Okay, that tells me that I prettymuch don't want to be using show(), but I don't think I want interactive mode either... What I'm trying

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [newbie] live plots of multiple lines

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Withers
, line 3, in module import gobject ImportError: No module named gobject What does that mean? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [newbie] live plots of multiple lines

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Withers
Chris Withers wrote: Matthias Michler wrote: plot([x1], [y1], bo, [x2], [y2], r+) This didn't work :-S - the first time I call show(), execution never comes back to my script so the code never gets to plot any further points Okay, thanks to Ryan, I now have this point fixed, however

[Matplotlib-users] [newbie] live plots of multiple lines

2008-03-07 Thread Chris Withers
I'd ask here... Hope you can help! cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Backend Agg - show plot

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Kennedy
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fail to allocate bitmap, Unable to free colormap, palette is still selected.

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Kennedy
, Mike Chris Kennedy wrote: hi, I get this error when I'm generating numerous .png files using matplotlib 0.9.2 in py2.4 on WinXP - Fail to allocate bitmap This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact

[Matplotlib-users] Fail to allocate bitmap, Unable to free colormap, palette is still selected.

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Kennedy
, but then generating SVG files anyway. thanks -- Chris Kennedy http://www.coventor.com Sr. Product ManagerPh: 919-854-7500 x156 Cary, NC

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fail to allocate bitmap, Unable to free colormap, palette is still selected.

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Kennedy
of your app? If the latter, we'll need to somehow narrow it down to a specific setting or method that causes the problem. Also, what backend are you using when it breaks? Just Agg, or one of the Gui+Agg backends? Cheers, Mike Chris Kennedy wrote: hi, I get this error when I'm generating

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Static linking problem on matplotlib eggs

2008-01-17 Thread Chris
/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory Even though there is nothing that points there in my env: MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man TERM=xterm-color SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=fe80::211:24ff:fe8d:9019%en1 57594 22 OLDPWD=/Users/chris/Development/freetype-2.3.5 LFLAGS

Re: [Matplotlib-users] re sizing behaviour like in Mircrocal Origin

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Sontag
objects. In general, this idea is probably more work than John's DPI suggestions. Chris - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http

[Matplotlib-users] Static linking problem on matplotlib eggs

2008-01-12 Thread Chris
not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.0.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/_path.so Reason: image not found Anyone have a clue what I am not doing properly? Thanks, Chris

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib ignores CocoaAgg backend in matplotlibrc

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
I have the CocoaAgg backend specified in matplotlibrc in ~/.matplotlib/ as: backend : CocoaAgg However, when I plot, matplotlib uses the TkAgg backend in spite of this. -- Christopher J. Fonnesbeck + Fish Wildlife Research Institute (FWC) + 727.235.5570

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib ignores CocoAff backend preference

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
Of course, I meant CocoaAgg, not -Aff. cf On Dec 4, 2007 1:49 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the CocoaAgg backend specified in matplotlibrc in ~/.matplotlib/ as: backend : CocoaAgg However, when I plot, matplotlib uses the TkAgg backend in spite

Re: [Matplotlib-users] hist() hangs on OSX 10.5

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
On Dec 2, 2007 10:44 PM, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 2, 2007 9:23 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running a recent build from svn on OSX 10.5, the TkAgg interface becomes unresponsive after plotting a histogram and calling show(). Here is a sample from

Re: [Matplotlib-users] hist() hangs on OSX 10.5

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
On Dec 3, 2007 11:04 AM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly related to the _tkagg extension -- that's what defines the PyAggImagePhoto method. If you installed ActiveState's Tcl/Tk after building matplotlib, that could explain this. Try doing a clean build of matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] hist() hangs on OSX 10.5

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
On Dec 3, 2007 10:58 AM, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 2, 2007 9:23 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running a recent build from svn on OSX 10.5, the TkAgg interface becomes unresponsive after plotting a histogram and calling show(). Here is a sample from

[Matplotlib-users] TypeError on CocoaAgg backend

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
, 9.16364268e+00, 1.06904171e+01, 1.22171915e+01, 1.37439660e+01]), a list of 10 Patch objects) In [10]: show() --- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/chris/Projects

Re: [Matplotlib-users] TypeError on CocoaAgg backend

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
On Dec 3, 2007 7:34 PM, Barry Wark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry instances of self.plotView.image On Dec 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I replaced the one instance of this that I found. I now get the following error: In [7]: show

Re: [Matplotlib-users] hist() hangs on OSX 10.5

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
easily test now w/ the active tcl install. Chris, if you get some time to explore this further, I'd like to see if we can sort it out. If you could remove the acive tcl and do a clean rebuild of mpl, I'd like to verify the hang still exists, and whether it is hist or all plot commands

[Matplotlib-users] Problems creating independent plots

2007-10-28 Thread Chris
In recent builds of matplotlib from SVN, when I create several plots in a row, each new figure ends up containing each of the previous plots, including the current one. Thus, the 1st plot would contain 1 series, the second 2 series, etc. This did not happen previously. I am calling figure() before

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib.use() error

2007-10-09 Thread Chris
Updating matplotlib with a new SVN build a couple days ago induced the following error: RuntimeError: matplotlib.use() must be called *before* pylab or matplotlib.backends is imported for the first time. This has not occurred before. Am I to understand that once pylab is imported, you cannot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] pytz, dateutil not getting insta lled from svn build

2007-10-04 Thread Chris
John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/17/07, Chris Fonnesbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, builds from SVN dont install either pytz or dateutil (at least not in the right place). Importing pylab from these builds results in an import error. This is typically caused

[Matplotlib-users] pytz, dateutil not getting installed from svn build

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
For some reason, builds from SVN dont install either pytz or dateutil (at least not in the right place). Importing pylab from these builds results in an import error. How can I build these so as to convince these modules to install correctly? Thanks.

[Matplotlib-users] Bus error on multiple hist plots

2007-07-14 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
I get a repeatable bus error when trying to plot more than one histogram of simulated data. The first plot is generated without error, but invariably a second plot crashes: In [4]: x = random.negative_binomial(2, 0.25, 1000) In [5]: from pylab import * In [6]: hist(x) Out[6]: (array([240, 318,

[Matplotlib-users] cannot import name rcParams

2007-06-14 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
I have a strange problem with my builds of matplotlib on OS X 10.4: If I install them from the command line, with setup.py, they install fine and matplotlib can be imported with no problem. However, I need to build distributable OS X packages, which I do using bdist_mpkg; when this package is

[Matplotlib-users] cannot import name rcParams

2007-06-14 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] subplot does not work in svn

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
On 1/6/07, Eric Firing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, I suspect it is a problem with your matplotlibrc file; you could try stripping it down to bare minimum, as in the svn root directory. Another possibility is that your update is somehow incomplete or scrambled with an earlier installation

[Matplotlib-users] family=sans-serif not taking effect? why?

2007-01-05 Thread chris
In my code I did family=sans-serif but it didn't seem to have any effect. Any ideas? Chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your

Re: [Matplotlib-users] family=sans-serif not taking effect? why?

2007-01-05 Thread chris
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:23:53PM -0600, Glen W. Mabey wrote: Contrary to the comments in the default matplotlibrc, it seems that font.size does not set the fontsize for axis labels and ticks; you have to set [xy]tick.labelsize and axes.labelsize explicitly. But I haven't had a chance to

[Matplotlib-users] Can't get pylab to import with Python 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 on PPC

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Pettit
moving this to my /usr/X11R6/lib and resetting the symbolic links to point to this, but no luck. Any advice? Thanks, Chris Pettit - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Matplotlib-users] problems doing MULTIPLE plots - old plots appear on new plots!?!

2006-12-22 Thread chris
message in this thread has code to create each plot. Each one does a 'figure_ = pylab.figure()' already. chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[Matplotlib-users] problems doing MULTIPLE plots - old plots appear on new plots!?!

2006-12-21 Thread chris
growth plot in it. Chris = import matplotlib matplotlib.use(Agg) import pylab BACKGROUND_COLOR = #ff def growth(company): Plots Growth plot. # Generates figure_, plot_ and functions

[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib *egg* gives error about trying to modify system files...

2006-12-16 Thread chris
, and has been aborted. This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available. Chris

[Matplotlib-users] *EGG* now freezes at this same place always....

2006-12-13 Thread chris
: this is the location of the previous definition Chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief

[Matplotlib-users] Is it possible to put a combo box on a matplotlib figure?

2006-11-05 Thread Chris Bartley
I have a matplotlib figure (by the way - matplot lib is brilliant) with lots of widgets (buttons, check boxes) on it, and am wondering if it is possible to put a combo box on it? Cheers, Chris Bartley - Using Tomcat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Compatible Version of Numpy?

2006-10-23 Thread Chris S
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[Matplotlib-users] Removing data from graph?

2006-10-09 Thread Chris Niekel
and more. Does anyone know how to change this? Regards, Chris Niekel - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business

[Matplotlib-users] plot_date + xdata ydata must be same len

2006-09-15 Thread Brinley, Chris
Hi, I am having trouble getting a variation of the tutorial plot_date() to work. I get the classic: RuntimeError: xdata and ydata must be the same length. The tutorial on the matplotlib site shows how to plot dates using whole days. I am plotting using multiple days showing each minute

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot_date + xdata ydata must be same len

2006-09-15 Thread Brinley, Chris
Title: Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot_date + xdata ydata must be same len Thanks, I actually got a work around now. Thanks for the follow. Chris Brinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Orbitz - AA.com Operations Phone: 312-894-4787 Cell: 312-479-8193 Pager: 866-292-3508 -Original

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Missing dll in windows build 0.87.4

2006-07-24 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
However, I have Tk installed, as it comes bundled with ActiveState python. -- Chris Fonnesbeck + Atlanta, GA + http://trichech.us - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll

[Matplotlib-users] Missing dll in windows build 0.87.4

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
\_transforms.py, line 17, in ? from matplotlib._ns_transforms import *ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.I have tried building matplotlib myself using mingw32, but with no success. Any help is most appreciated. -- Chris Fonnesbeck + Atlanta, GA + http://trichech.us

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