Re: [matplotlib-devel] Quartz backend (beta)

Charles Moad wrote:
> 	In learning matplotlib's backend API I played around in starting a
> Quartz image backend.  FWIW I am posting this if anyone wants to have a
> look.  I made a quick page on my wiki:
> 
> http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/wiki/index.php/Matplotlib

The last time I looked at the Apple-provided wrappers, I found them to 
be inadequate for drawing stuff. If I remember correctly, some of the 
arguments require arrays of <Foo>, but they never wrote the typemaps to 
convert Python lists of <Foo> to the appropriate <FooPtr>. Worse, 
there's no source or documentation; you have to fly blind with the 
SWIGged API.

So I wrote ABCGI (A Better CoreGraphics Interface; I'm uncreative). It's 
part of Enthought's Kiva, but it could be trivially ripped out to stand 
alone.

http://svn.enthought.com/svn/enthought/branches/converge/kiva/mac/

It's more complete than the Apple wrappers, and plays nicely with 
Numeric. It would need some numerixifying to play nicely with 
matplotlib, probably. It plays nicely with PyObjC and PIL, too.

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