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Hello everyone,

I have yet another question which I could not solve, even though I read 
a lot of the backend specific source code today.

I use the OO interface of matplotlib, specifically the gtk backend, and 
I would like to add scrollbars to the canvas widget.  Normally I would 
pack the widget into a gtk.ScrolledWindow and expect everything to work 
fine.  But the canvas widget ignores this and still scales with the 
window size.  Is it possible to specify a fixed size for the canvas?

Best regards,

Niklas Volbers.

Robert Kern schrieb:
> N. Volbers wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have written an application that depends on matplotlib.  My 
>> application has several dependencies and I feel like this is a 
>> problem. Since matplotlib only depends on Numeric, I would like to 
>> have matplotlib linked statically.
> 
> 
> There is no such thing as "linking a Python package statically." At 
> least, we do not use such terminology.

Yes, you are right, of course.  What terminology should I use? Maybe: 
Distributing a python package as subpackage to my own?

> You *could* put matplotlib wholesale into your package hierarchy 
> (indeed, matplotlib does this for at least one of its dependencies), but 
> it seems to me better to just package up matplotlib for the platforms 
> that you support and distribute that package alongside your own.
> 
> There has been some recent work that should make this kind of thing 
> very, very easy.
> 
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
> 
> Numeric, at least, builds into an egg just fine. matplotlib might take a 
> little more work, but John has started to look into it.

Great link!  This looks very promising and would be the perfect solution 
to my problem.  This allows me to request a specific matplotlib version 
to be used with my application.

>> My second question is the license question :-)  I read through the 
>> matplotlib license and there seems to be no problem with including 
>> matplotlib.  Is that also valid if my program is GPL-licensed?
> 
> 
> Yes. The licenses of matplotlib's code are all GPL-compatible as far as 
> I can tell.

Thanks very much for your answer,

Niklas.