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From:  Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>
Subject:  Re: Notebook editing and interactive plotting (jquery?)
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Jason Grout wrote:
> I see the "canvas" backend to matplotlib being just like the FLOT tool 
> (indeed, maybe one could even use the FLOT library to do it!).  The 
> matplotlib backend just needs to be able to draw some basic shapes (like 
> lines and text) and provide some sort of interface for interaction.  All 
> of this should be documented in the matplotlib docs and/or code, and 
> help is available on the matplotlib list.
> 
> That said, I haven't actually developed a matplotlib backend.  If one 
> were interested in working on a canvas (or even a FLOT) backend to 
> matplotlib, it would probably be best to take things to the matplotlib list.


I posted a message to the matplotlib-devel list, and the reply is here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=88e473830902240812h7a31be73gd13b549c71284e4c%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=matplotlib-devel



Jason