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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Nandris <sui...@ya...> writes:
 Michael> Well, Xandros ship a python with no distutils.
 Michael> Hmmmmmmmmmm, usefull.
Install distutils rather than trying to work around them. For
example, all the configure, gcc, make stuff you attempted is
unnecessary if you simply use distutils with 'python setup.py build'..
Everything else you are trying will result in a fragmented and
corrupted source. The standard installation techinques will work on
Xandros, I'm willing to wager, and will result in a cleaner, better
system that trying to hack the install. This isn't always true
(solaris and perhaps os x spring to mind) but I have some confidence
that it will be true for your install
 Michael> Anyway, I have a clean reinstall now; but both mpl deb's
 Michael> are broken (see below).
Did you do what I suggested in my last post. Step by step, what was
the output? For example, to the suggested commands
 >>> import matplotlib
 >>> print matplotlib.__version__
What was the output of the apt-get commands? Did you follow the
instructions in the response I sent to matplotlib-users? Did you try a
different GUI backend?
JDH

>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Lielens <gre...@ff...> writes:
 Gregory> Hi John, Hi the list, I almost have finished updating the
 Gregory> fltkAgg, to add the new subplot formatter and the blit
 Gregory> method for fast animation. Everything seems to work fine,
 Gregory> but I still need to do some code clean-up, and before
 Gregory> commiting the changes I have to ask what you think about
 Gregory> the method I used:
Hi Gregory, Great news. Ken McIvor just emailed me this morning that
he completed the same with a _wxagg module that he will post shortly.
That means we have (or will soon have) blit methods for all GUIs
except Qt and Cocoa (gentle reminder).
 Gregory> Instead of writing a special method taking account of the
 Gregory> bbox for bliting, similar to the agg_to_gtk_drawable, or
 Gregory> a aggcanvas->str conversion like the proposed
 Gregory> aggcanvas.as_rgba_str(bbox), I just changed the method
 Gregory> that I introduced for normal draw in fltkAdd, that rely
 Gregory> on pytho buffer objects to transfer the agg buffer to the
 Gregory> fltk library.
 Gregory> The old method of the Agg backend that was used to get
 Gregory> the buffer object was:
 ....snip...
 Gregory> As fltkAgg is able to use an image source with a pixel
 Gregory> stride (skipping the a of the rgba quatuor) and a line
 Gregory> stride (taking a part of wide w1 from an image of wide
 Gregory> w2), no copy or special method is needed with the new
 Gregory> version of RendererAgg::buffer_rgba...
 Gregory> Now I checked and other backends (qtagg, cocoaagg) now
 Gregory> use RendererAgg::buffer_rgba. If this is ok, I will
 Gregory> update all the calls to pass (0,0) instead of no
 Gregory> arguments, but I wonder if the new methods could not
 Gregory> simplify things for those backends too...
Yep, this all looks right. I will look into this for gtkagg as well
tomorrow. It may make rendering to a bbox even faster because gtkagg
and tkagg may both make an unnecessary copy that your method avoids.
 Gregory> Another remarks is that the animation code seems quite
 Gregory> fragile for the moment: if one do a resize of the output
 Gregory> window, the background copy is not updated correctly and
 Gregory> one have a very interresting effect ;) Well, at leat I
 Gregory> observe that under fltkAgg (my local version supporting
 Gregory> blit) and GTKAgg. tkagg does not do this..because it is
 Gregory> not possible to resize the window during animation (well,
 Gregory> window is resizable but the size of the inside canvas
 Gregory> does not change during this resize...).
 Gregory> I think some extra steps should be performed to make
 Gregory> resize and anim play nicely together (like freezing the
 Gregory> anim during resize, and restarting afterwards with the
 Gregory> correct background...)
What I do is connect to the new 'draw_event' which is called at the
end of Figure.draw (no GUI specific event handling required). If you
set the animated property of the Artist, and then connect your
background saver to the 'draw_event', it should handle this case.
Additionally you want to make sure your draw events are processed in
an idle queue on resizes, etc.
Check out widgets.Cursor for a complete example using draw_event
background cacheing, the guts of which are 
 
 
 def __init__(self, ax, useblit=False, **lineprops):
 ...snip
 self.canvas.mpl_connect('draw_event', self.clear)
 def clear(self, event):
 'clear the cursor'
 if self.useblit:
 self.background = self.canvas.copy_from_bbox(self.ax.bbox)
Does this work for you in GTKAGG and/or FLTK? If everything looks
good, you may want to update the canonical animation examples in the
examples directory and on the wiki.
JDH

Well, Xandros ship a python with no distutils.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, usefull. 
Anyway, I have a clean reinstall now; but both mpl
deb's are broken (see below).
I am (reasonably) confident distutils will fine for
installing mpl, but I think there are 2 final hurdles:
1) agg 	
2) mpl build requires pygtk
	
1) Marcus Gruendler kindly supplied a line for
compiling agg from that list:
	gcc -c -O2 src/*.cpp -Iinclude && ar rc
libantigrain2.a *.o
	
	... after which i assume 'make', 'make install' will
work.
2) ./configure works for pygtk (see below). 
I have stopped here for a rest. phew.
 
I am hoping 'make', 'make install' will ensure pygtk
is picked up when I build matplotlib - any pitfalls? 
... and I only want matplotlib to draw pretty pictures
:)
regards
michael 
 
 
============================= deb files on xandros and
elsewhere are broken ?
====================================================
ONE:
altered /etc/apt/sources.list by adding 
	deb http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian packages/
	deb-src http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian
sources/
	
apt-get update						
apt-get install python-matplotlib
python-matplotlib-doc
apt-get install python-matplotlib
python-matplotlib-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean
that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using
the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet
been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the
situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-matplotlib: Depends: python2.3-matplotlib (=
0.82-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
TWO:
looked for python2.3-matplotlib on xandros networks:
	found python2.3-matplotlib on xandros: package size
is 2.21 MB
	
	After selecting 'install', the xandos dialog box is
visibly broken, and no installation happens. This
happens consistently for all mpl related debs. 
	
	There is a python2.4-matplotlib (albeit with the same
broken dependancy) but no way of upgrading to python
2.4! I *paid* good English pounds
exchanged-at-an-artificially-favourable-rate for
xandros, so I will email them.
	 
================================================================================================================
=========================== output of ./configure for
pygtk is ok
===============================================
maia:/home/mik/src/pygtk-2.4.1# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
/usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
a.out
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yes
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checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none
needed
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checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
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/bin/sed
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files... -r
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compiler... no
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checking the maximum length of command line
arguments... 32768
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gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
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shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in...
no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux
ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into
programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible...
yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux
ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into
programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible...
yes
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checking for a Python interpreter with version >=
2.3... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.3
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory...
${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory...
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
checking for headers required to compile python
extensions... found
checking for python module thread... yes
checking whether to enable threading in pygtk... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version
2.6.3)
checking for atk >= 1.0.0... yes
checking ATK_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking ATK_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -latk-1.0
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for pango >= 1.4.0... yes
checking PANGO_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking PANGO_LIBS... -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for pkg-config... (cached)
/usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version
2.6.2)
checking for GTK+ 2.4... found (version 2.6.2)
checking for libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6... Package
libglade-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search
path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing
`libglade-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libglade-2.0' found
checking for Numeric/arrayobject.h... no
checking whether gcc understands -Wall... yes
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-fno-strict-aliasing... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating pygtk-2.0.pc
config.status: creating codegen/Makefile
config.status: creating gobject/Makefile
config.status: creating gtk/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating codegen/pygtk-codegen-2.0
config.status: creating pygtk.spec
config.status: creating PKG-INFO
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
maia:/home/mik/src/pygtk-2.4.1#
		
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Hi John, Hi the list,
I almost have finished updating the fltkAgg, to add the new subplot
formatter and the blit method for fast animation. Everything seems to
work fine, but I still need to do some code clean-up, and before
commiting the changes I have to ask what you think about the method I
used:
Instead of writing a special method taking account of the bbox for
bliting, similar to the agg_to_gtk_drawable, or a aggcanvas->str
conversion like the proposed aggcanvas.as_rgba_str(bbox), I just changed
the method that I introduced for normal draw in fltkAdd, that rely on
pytho buffer objects to transfer the agg buffer to the fltk library.
The old method of the Agg backend that was used to get the buffer object
was:
Py::Object 
RendererAgg::buffer_rgba(const Py::Tuple& args) {
 //"expose the rendered buffer as Python buffer object";
 
 _VERBOSE("RendererAgg::buffer_rgba");
 
 args.verify_length(0); 
 int row_len = width*4; 
 return Py::asObject(PyBuffer_FromMemory( pixBuffer, row_len*height));
} 
and I just extended it to use only part of the buffer:
Py::Object 
RendererAgg::buffer_rgba(const Py::Tuple& args) {
 //"expose the rendered buffer as Python buffer object, starting from
postion x,y";
 
 _VERBOSE("RendererAgg::buffer_rgba");
 
 args.verify_length(2); 
 int startw = Py::Int(args[0]); 
 int starth = Py::Int(args[1]); 
 int row_len = width*4; 
 int start=row_len*starth+startw*4;
 return Py::asObject(PyBuffer_FromMemory( pixBuffer+start,
row_len*height-start));
} 
As fltkAgg is able to use an image source with a pixel stride (skipping
the a of the rgba quatuor) and a line stride (taking a part of wide w1
from an image of wide w2), no copy or special method is needed with the
new version of RendererAgg::buffer_rgba...
The draw code calls 
Fltk.fl_draw_image(self._source.buffer_rgba(0,0),0,0,int(w),int(h),4,0)
and the blit code 
Fltk.fl_draw_image(self._source.buffer_rgba(x,y),x,y,int(w),int(h),4,int(wo)*4)
Now I checked and other backends (qtagg, cocoaagg) now use
RendererAgg::buffer_rgba. If this is ok, I will update all the calls to
pass (0,0) instead of no arguments, but I wonder if the new methods
could not simplify things for those backends too...
Another remarks is that the animation code seems quite fragile for the
moment: if one do a resize of the output window, the background copy is
not updated correctly and one have a very interresting effect ;) Well,
at leat I observe that under fltkAgg (my local version supporting blit)
and GTKAgg. tkagg does not do this..because it is not possible to resize
the window during animation (well, window is resizable but the size of
the inside canvas does not change during this resize...).
I think some extra steps should be performed to make resize and anim
play nicely together (like freezing the anim during resize, and
restarting afterwards with the correct background...)
Regards,
Greg.