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2005-03-29 Added unicode support for Agg and PS - JDH

2005-03-28 Added Jarrod's svg patch for text - JDH

2005-03-15 backend_gtkagg.py: changed to use double buffering, this fixes

the problem reported Joachim Berdal Haga - "Parts of plot lagging

no noticable difference to performance (23.7 before, 23.6 after)

2005-03-14 add src/_backend_gdk.c extension to provide a substitute function

only works with Numeric, and then only works if pygtk has been

2005-03-11 Upgraded CXX to 5.3.1

2005-03-10 remove GraphicsContextPS.set_linestyle()

the base class GraphicsContext.set_linestyle() - SC

2005-03-09 Refactored contour functionality into dedicated module

2005-03-09 backend_cairo.py: implemented draw_markers() - SC

2005-03-09 cbook.py: only use enumerate() (the python version) if the builtin

Add new function 'izip' which is set to itertools.izip if available

and the python equivalent if not available. - SC

2005-03-07 backend_gdk.py: remove PIXELS_PER_INCH from points_to_pixels(), but

line_styles.py to more closely match GTKAgg, previously the markers

were being drawn too large. - SC

2005-02-24 colors.py change ColorConverter.to_rgb() so it always returns rgb

(and not rgba), allow cnames keys to be cached, change the exception

raised from RuntimeError to ValueError (like hex2color())

valid - SC

array bug- JDH

2005-02-04 Modified GTK backends to allow the FigureCanvas to be resized

2005-02-02 Fixed a bug in dates mx2num - JDH

2005-01-15 backend_cairo: added PDF support which requires pycairo 0.1.4.

Its not usable yet, but is ready for when the Cairo PDF backend

2005-01-15 Added Nadia's x,y contour fix

- backend_gtk.py - A GUI backend that uses GDK - SC

2004-12-08 backend_gtk.py: remove quit_after_print_xvfb(*args), show_xvfb(),

matplotlib-users asking if anyone still uses these functions - SC

2004-12-02 backend_bases.py, backend_template.py: updated some of the method

documentation to make them consistent with each other - SC

2004-12-04 Fixed multiple bindings per event for TkAgg mpl_connect and

2004-12-04 Fixed some legend bugs JDH

2004-11-29 Added the over command to the matlab interface. over

allows you to add an overlay plot regardless of hold

2004-11-25 Added Printf to mplutils for printf style format string

formatting in C++ (should help write better exceptions)

Cairo and get saved using backend_gtk.print_figure() - SC

2004-11-13 backend_cairo.py: Discovered the magic number (96) required for

2004-11-13 Added ishold - JDH

py2exe (or similar) - is used by backend_gtk.py - SC

2004-11-09 backend_gtk.py: Made fix suggested by [email protected]

2004-11-09 backend_cairo.py: Added support for printing to a fileobject.

Disabled cairo PS output which is not working correctly. - SC

draw_image() and clipping. gtkcairo works reasonably well. cairo

does not yet create any files since I can't figure how to set the

'target surface', I don't think pycairo wraps the required functions

2004-10-28 backend_gtk.py: Improved the save dialog (GTK 2.4 only) so it

presents the user with a menu of supported image formats - SC

to format the x and y data for the coords box. Default is

the axis major formatter. Eg

2004-09-17 Total rewrite of dates handling to use python datetime with

backend maintenance. Added his numutils to mlab. JDH

2004-09-16 Re-designated all files in matplotlib/images as binary and

2004-09-15 Modified setup to build array-package-specific extensions

- JTM

2004-09-15 Moved definitions of infinity from mlab to numerix to avoid

2004-09-09 Added axhline, axvline, axhspan and axvspan

minimised - SC

2004-07-22 Added right mouse click zoom for NavigationToolbar2 panning

2004-07-22 Added NavigationToolbar2 support to backend_tkagg.

2004-07-22 Incorporated Gergory's renderer cache and buffer object

cache - JDH

2004-07-07 backend_gtk.py: raise SystemExit immediately if

2004-07-05 Added new mathtext commands \over{sym1}{sym2} and

\under{sym1}{sym2}

image.cmap, image.lut, image.origin

2004-06-20 backend_gtk.py: replace gtk.TRUE/FALSE with True/False.

2004-06-19 anim_tk.py: Updated to use TkAgg by default (not GTK)

backend_gtk_py: Added '_' in front of private widget

backend - JDH

2004-06-16 backend_gtk.py updates to replace deprecated functions

Update NavigationToolbar to use the new GtkToolbar API - SC

2004-06-15 removed set_default_font from font_manager to unify font

2004-06-11 More memory leak fixes in transforms and ft2font - JDH

2004-06-11 Eliminated numerix .numerix file and environment variable

2004-06-10 Added rc configuration function rc; deferred all rc param

setting until object creation time; added new rc attrs:

one plots and constant data plots - JDH

2004-05-25 Tweaked TkAgg backend so that canvas.draw() works

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2004-05-19 0.54 released

2004-05-14 Added fast polygon collections - changed scatter to use

them. Added multiple symbols to scatter. 10x speedup on

2004-05-14 On second thought... created an "nx" namespace in

2004-05-15 Rewrote transformation class in extension code, simplified

all the artist constructors - JDH

2004-05-14 Modified the type definitions in the numarray side of

2004-05-06 Gary Ruben sent me a bevy of new plot symbols and markers.

See matplotlib.matlab.plot - JDH

2004-05-03 Removed the close buttons on all GUIs and added the python

#! bang line to the examples following Steve Chaplin's

2004-04-29 Added CXX and rewrote backend_agg using it; tracked down

and fixed agg memory leak - JDH

See examples/two_scales.py - JDH

2004-04-17 Added default dirs as list rather than single dir in

2004-04-16 Fixed wx exception swallowing bug (and there was much

rejoicing!) - JDH

return - JDH

2004-04-16 Added get_name method to FontProperties class. Fixed font lookup

2004-04-16 Added get- and set_fontstyle msethods. - PEB

2004-04-08 Fixed viewlim set problem on axes and axis. - JDH

2004-04-07 Added validate_comma_sep_str and font properties paramaters to

2004-04-06 Added load and save commands for ASCII data - JDH

2004-04-05 Improved font caching by not reading AFM fonts until needed.

get_family, set_family, and set_name methods of FontProperties.

2004-04-05 Added WXAgg backend - JDH

2003-04-25 Implemented new functions errorbar, scatter and hist

Added a new line type '|' which is a vline. syntax is

2003-05-01

See examples/system_monitor.py for an example where the plot is

continusouly updated w/o flicker. This example is meant to

simulate a system monitor that shows free CPU, RAM, etc...

2003-08-04

Added Jon Anderson's GTK shell, which doesn't require pygtk to