Yade

Default subPlots=True prevents graphs plotting (?)

Asked by Mark S. Bentley

Hi all,

Yesterday was my first day with Yade, and so far so good - thanks for all your hard work! I am running with the "snapshots" package on ubuntu 11.04. I'm currently working through the tutorial in Yade.pdf and noticed that if I set up a single, simple plot, e.g.

plot.plots={'t':('coordNum',None,'Ek')}

and store simulation data with addData, e.g.

addData(t=O.time,Ek=utils.kineticEnergy(),coordNum=utils.avgNumInteractions())

I get a problem when trying to view with

plot.plot() or by hitting F8

In this case I get an empty matplotlib window with no content, and nothing is plotted or refreshed.

However, if I specify

plot.plot(subPlots=False)

then everything works as expected.

I just wanted to know if this was normal behaviour? It took me quite some time and head scratching to figure out what was going on. My matplotlib install is using the default TkAgg backend.

Thanks! Mark

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Janek Kozicki (cosurgi) said : 		#1

Mark S. Bentley said: (by the date of Tue, 03 May 2011 14:36:44 -0000)
> plot.plot(subPlots=False)
>
> then everything works as expected.

Actually it's drawn but outside of the window. If you manipulate the
"hspace" slider (invoke it by clicking the button marked with red
circle - a I hope that attaching pictures here will work) you can move
the plots down a little, and they will become visible, but still
placed wrong.

I wonder if there's a backport of matplotlib 1.0.1 to ubuntu, because
in this version this problem disappears.

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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) said : 		#2

I have backported matplotlib 1.0.0 for Natty in our ppa. You can do the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yade-users/external
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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