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>>>>> "Sandeep" == Sandeep Shetty <cab...@ya...> writes:
 John> According to what you wrote, you did everything correct.
 John> Many people run matplotlib under a variety of Microsoft
 John> environments, so you shouldn't have much trouble. My guess
 John> is that the PATH is not properly set. Which dir did you
 John> install the GTK runtime in? By default, I believe, it goes
 John> into a dir with spaces in the name, which are difficult to
 John> handle correctly in the PATH. For this reason, I always
 John> install the GTK runtime into C:\GTK and then add C:\GTK\lib
 John> and c:\GTK\bin to my PATH.
 Sandeep> Hi John, Thanks for getting back to me. I tried to start
 Sandeep> from scratch and got the same results. My path variable
 Sandeep> is set as follows: Path=c:\oracle\ora81\bin\;c:\Program
 Sandeep> Files\Oracle\jre1円.1.7\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT
 Sandeep> \System32\Wbem;d:\matlab6p5\bin\win32;d:\matlab\bin\win32;D:\Tcl\bin;c:\Program
 Sandeep> Files\ssh communicat ions security\ssh Secure
 Sandeep> Shell;c:\oracle\ora81\bin\;c:\Program
 Sandeep> Files\Oracle\jre1円.1.7\bin\;C:\WINNT\
 Sandeep> system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;d:\matlab6p5\bin\win32;d:\matlab\bin\win32;d:\Modeltech_5.5
 Sandeep> e\win32;d:\bin;d:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;d:\PkZip;d:\Python23;C:\GTK\lib;C:\GTK\bin
I still wonder if there is a problem because of all those paths that
have spaces (eg, all those with "Program File" in them before the GTK
path entry.) For example, when I open a 'command' shell in windows XP
and do
 C:> set
to display my PATH, all the Program File entries are listed as
 C:\progra~1\somepath
with no spaces. When you do the same from the command shell, are any
spaces listed?
Please try the following. Open a command shell with
Start menu->Run->command ENTER
C:> set PATH=C:\GTK\bin;C:\GTK\lib
C:> d:\python23\python
>>> import pygtk
>>> pygtk.require('2.0')
>>> import gobject
and tell me what happens. I that works, the odds are that you have a
PATH problem. If not, its something else. If it does work, try
>>> from matplotlib.matlab import *
>>> plot([1,2,3,])
>>> show()
 Sandeep> Are are either of these the correct file for gobject? Or
 Sandeep> is gobject found some place else?
This looks good; I do have one additional gobject file, however,
 C:\Python23\Include\pygtk-2.0\pygobject
 Sandeep> If you think it is better I wait for the next rev of
 Sandeep> matlibplot, I can wait. Nonetheless, I would love to use
 Sandeep> your library as soon as possible.
The problem is that this is most likely not intrinsic to matplotlib,
but to your GTK settings. So you'll likely have the same problems in
the next release. There are many win32 users so don't despair, this
should be a relatively easy fix. Perhaps someone on the users list
has some input?
JDH