Matplotlib is in current Mac and Linux Chimera daily builds but not yet in Windows. Should be in Windows within the next week. I'll send another message when it is. Tom Eric Pettersen wrote:
Tom Goddard has done the work to get matplotlib to compile with Chimera. It's now available in the daily builds.
--Eric
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:
Thanks for clarifying, Tom. Am happy to hear you plan to eventually include mpl in Chimera.
Yes, both Charlie (Moad) and I have built it for Windows, but that was several versions back when we did it regularly. What prompted this thread initially was my attempt to do it again, but discovered an apparent mismatch when Chimera jumped to Tcl/Tk 8.5 and mpl still wanted 8.4. Perhaps the inclusion of mpl into Chimera will be solved by the passage of time, after the libraries (and stars) align. Anyway, the only tips I'd have are the obvious ones - to tweak those checks/settings done in mpl's setup/setupext.py scripts related to the various dependencies (numpy, tcl/tk, etc) before running chimera's python on setup.py. Just running:
...path-to-chimera-python setup.py
will reveal what mpl will attempt to use to build.
Maybe I'll dust off my Window's laptop :) and make another attempt in the next few days.
-Randy
On Dec 16, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
Hi Randy,
On the Mac the Chimera python executable finds the Python framework and runs it. When you start Chimera's Python from a shell it is finding the Mac system Python framework instead of the one included in Chimera.app. The way Chimera gets its own Python framework instead of the system one is that the start-up script
Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/chimera
sets the DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH environment variable to point to the Chimera Python (and Tcl/Tk) frameworks.
We discussed including matplotlib in the Chimera distribution and agreed it is a good idea and we plan on doing it though a date has not been set. I would like to try using it this month or next month so I may add it to Chimera soon. The trick is to get it to build on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac). Have you built it for Chimera on Windows. Any tips?
Thanks,
Tom
Randy Heiland wrote:
Hi Eric and others,
I've returned to this little exercise of trying to build matplotlib using Chimera and have a basic question:
- using the Chimera-1.3.2577-osx_aqua, when I bring up IDLE, I see: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 9 2008, 02:00:10) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
however, when I run Chimera's python manually, I see:
$ /Users/heiland/dev/Chimera-1.3.2577-osx_aqua.app/Contents/ Resources/ bin/python2.5 Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Why am I seeing 2 different Python builds?
One of the initial things I'm trying to resolve is the ability to 'import Tkinter'. I can do so from the former, but not the latter (even after setting sys.path to be what it is in the former).
thanks, Randy
On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
FYI, the last paragraph of my reply below may be of general interest to developers interested in plotting data...
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:
Hi gang,
For one of the Chimera plugins that I now maintain, I'm considering eliminating the use of matplotlib and wondering if Chimera's innards are capable of doing what I want. For starters, are there any example plugins, etc that demonstrate how one could do simple plotting and simple (image) contours? In addition, I'd need to handle mouse events, e.g. to retrieve x,y positions on the contour image.
Hi Randy, I'm thinking that what Chimera currently provides will not be an adequate replacement for the capabilities of matplotlib that NLOPredict uses. Aside from the basic Tk widgets themselves (the most salient of which is Canvas) the only relevant widgets I can think of is an interactive histogram widget in CGLtk.Histogram, and a basic line/point plotting widget available through Scientific.TkWidgets.TkPlotCanvas (Scientific.TkWidgets.TkPlotCanvas<http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/ScientificPython/ScientificPythonManual/Scienti...
).
But I think NLOPredict needs interactive contour and bar graphs. As long as you can generate the contour image yourself somehow, I think you can pretty easily gin up an interactive contour plot using the Image item of Tk.Canvas. As for the bar graph, would BLT (A User's Guide to Pmw.Blt<http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/Pmw.Blt/doc/>) provide enough functionality if we decided to provide that? It seems to provide bar charts (A complete reference to the Pmw.Blt plot widget<http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~hpl/Pmw.Blt/doc/reference.html%23bar_create(...)
). It also might or might not be easier for you to provide BLT for
NLOPredict as a stopgap measure. So the Chimera developers will be discussing possibly providing some kind of plotting library at our next weekly meeting. Clearly, matplotlib is the "Cadillac" of plotting libraries. And like a Cadillac it has the downside of large size -- probably in the range of 60-80MB before compression. It also has the drawback of depending on a lot of other packages which we would also have to include and port to all our supported platforms, including 64-bit versions thereof. So I guess the question is whether we could get away with including something smaller like BLT, which we would also be able to deploy more quickly due to the lower effort involved, or do people really need the unique capabilities of matplotlib? Anybody?
--Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
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