Re: [Matplotlib-users] changes to plot after py2exe and resizing

On Nov 16, 2007 9:23 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Nov 15, 2007 10:42 PM, C M <cmp...@gm...> wrote:
> > sorry, the last email did not get the pic attached.  retrying, and text
> > recopied below:
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Using Python 2.5, wxPython 2.8.4.2 (msw-unicode) matplotlib 0.90.1
> >  on winXP.  I have two questions:
> >
> >  1) I have a small working app that produces a matplotlib plot.
> >  This is a plot embedded in wxPython (it's not using Pylab).
> > When it is run as a python script, it looks fine.  However, after
> > packaging it into an .exe with py2exe (using GUI2Exe to do that),
> > the font and size of the axes are different:  smaller, and now in
> > italics. See attached picture.  I also get the errors:
> >
> > C:\mycode\dist\myapp.exe\matplotlib\__init__.py:948: UserWarning: Could
> not
> > find matplotlibrc; using defaults
> > C:\mycode\dist\myapp.exe\matplotlib\__init__.py:999: UserWarning: could
> not
> > find rc file; returning defaults
> >
> >  I did include in the data files this folder:
> >  C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\back.png
> >
> >  and in the Python packages I included:
> >  pytz
> >  matplotlib.numerix
> >
> >  2) I thought that was the only error, but now I also see that, in
> >  either case (as a python script or as a .exe file), each time I
> >  resize the window, and the plot resizes (it is in a wxPython
> >  sizer), the color of the data line changes randomly!  It starts
> >  blue, and then as I resize it it can be green, red, whatever.
> >  In the picture attached, with resizing they've wound up different
> >  colors, though they both started blue as they should have.
>
> My guess is that you are calling plot in an event handler that is
> triggered by a resize, and are seeing mpl's color cycler.  As for the
> fonts, it looks like whatever fonts are being picked up by default
> (outside of py2exe) are not being packaged by py2exe.  Make sure all
> the fonts in site-pacakges/matplotlib/mpl-data are being picked up by
> py2exe.  In general, as long as py2exe is picking up all of mpl-data,
> I don't see why you would have trouble with fonts, your rc file, or
> your icons (eg back.png).  Of course, w/o seeing any code or setup
> files this is just a wild guess.
>
> JDH
>

The font problem turned out to be simply that I didn't realize that the
latest version of matplotlib comes with the matplotlibrc file commented out
(I had not tried to change fonts before so hadn't noticed I couldn't).
Uncommented the fonts section solved it.  Thanks for the tip.

Is there a way to disable color cycling?

cm