Remove the Fltk backend

matplotlib · pelson · May 21, 2013 · May 20, 2013 · May 20, 2013 · May 20, 2013
commit e955a740f68024ee1a0b564754e4b190925549f5
diff --git a/doc/faq/usage_faq.rst b/doc/faq/usage_faq.rst
@@ -164,12 +164,11 @@ others in web application servers to dynamically serve up graphs.
 To support all of these use cases, matplotlib can target different
 outputs, and each of these capabilities is called a backend; the
 "frontend" is the user facing code, ie the plotting code, whereas the
-"backend" does all the hard work behind-the-scenes to make the
-figure.  There are two types of backends: user interface backends (for
-use in pygtk, wxpython, tkinter, qt4, macosx, or fltk; also
-referred to as "interactive backends") and hardcopy backends to
-make image files (PNG, SVG, PDF, PS; also referred to as "non-interactive
-backends").
+"backend" does all the hard work behind-the-scenes to make the figure.
+There are two types of backends: user interface backends (for use in
+pygtk, wxpython, tkinter, qt4, or macosx; also referred to as
+"interactive backends") and hardcopy backends to make image files
+(PNG, SVG, PDF, PS; also referred to as "non-interactive backends").
 
 There are a two primary ways to configure your backend.  One is to set
 the ``backend`` parameter in your ``matplotlibrc`` file (see
@@ -267,9 +266,6 @@ WX             Native :term:`wxWidgets` drawing to a :term:`wxWidgets` Canvas
                (not recommended) (requires wxPython_)
 TkAgg          Agg rendering to a :term:`Tk` canvas (requires TkInter_)
 Qt4Agg         Agg rendering to a :term:`Qt4` canvas (requires PyQt4_)
-FLTKAgg        Agg rendering to a :term:`FLTK` canvas (requires pyFLTK_)
-               (not widely used; consider TKAgg, GTKAgg, WXAgg, or
-               QT4Agg instead)
 macosx         Cocoa rendering in OSX windows
                (presently lacks blocking show() behavior when matplotlib
                is in non-interactive mode)
@@ -287,7 +283,6 @@ macosx         Cocoa rendering in OSX windows
 .. _wxPython: http://www.wxpython.org/
 .. _TkInter: http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter
 .. _PyQt4: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro
-.. _pyFLTK: http://pyfltk.sourceforge.net
 
 
 

diff --git a/doc/glossary/index.rst b/doc/glossary/index.rst
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ Glossary
   EPS
       Encapsulated Postscript (`EPS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript>`_)
 
-  FLTK
-      `FLTK <http://www.fltk.org/>`_ (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for
-      UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and MacOS X
-
   freetype
       `freetype <http://www.freetype.org/>`_ is a font rasterization
       library used by matplotlib which supports TrueType, Type 1, and
@@ -68,11 +64,6 @@ Glossary
       channel.  PDF was designed in part as a next-generation document
       format to replace postscript
 
-  pyfltk
-      `pyfltk <http://pyfltk.sourceforge.net/>`_ provides python
-      wrappers for the :term:`FLTK` widgets library for use with
-      FLTKAgg
-
   pygtk
       `pygtk <http://www.pygtk.org/>`_ provides python wrappers for
       the :term:`GTK` widgets library for use with the GTK or GTKAgg

diff --git a/doc/users/event_handling.rst b/doc/users/event_handling.rst
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
 Event handling and picking
 **************************
 
-matplotlib works with 6 user interface toolkits (wxpython, tkinter,
-qt, gtk, fltk and macosx) and in order to support features like interactive
-panning and zooming of figures, it is helpful to the developers to
-have an API for interacting with the figure via key presses and mouse
-movements that is "GUI neutral" so we don't have to repeat a lot of
-code across the different user interfaces.  Although the event
-handling API is GUI neutral, it is based on the GTK model, which was
-the first user interface matplotlib supported.  The events that are
-triggered are also a bit richer vis-a-vis matplotlib than standard GUI
-events, including information like which :class:`matplotlib.axes.Axes`
-the event occurred in.  The events also understand the matplotlib
-coordinate system, and report event locations in both pixel and data
-coordinates.
+matplotlib works with a number of user interface toolkits (wxpython,
+tkinter, qt4, gtk, and macosx) and in order to support features like
+interactive panning and zooming of figures, it is helpful to the
+developers to have an API for interacting with the figure via key
+presses and mouse movements that is "GUI neutral" so we don't have to
+repeat a lot of code across the different user interfaces.  Although
+the event handling API is GUI neutral, it is based on the GTK model,
+which was the first user interface matplotlib supported.  The events
+that are triggered are also a bit richer vis-a-vis matplotlib than
+standard GUI events, including information like which
+:class:`matplotlib.axes.Axes` the event occurred in.  The events also
+understand the matplotlib coordinate system, and report event
+locations in both pixel and data coordinates.
 
 .. _event-connections:
 

diff --git a/doc/users/screenshots.rst b/doc/users/screenshots.rst
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ rendering of strings with the *usetex* option.
 EEG demo
 =========
 
-You can embed matplotlib into pygtk, wxpython, Tk, FLTK or Qt4
+You can embed matplotlib into pygtk, wxpython, Tk, or Qt4
 applications.  Here is a screenshot of an eeg viewer called pbrain
 which is part of the NeuroImaging in Python suite `NIPY
 <http://neuroimaging.scipy.org>`_.  Pbrain is written in pygtk using

diff --git a/doc/users/whats_new.rst b/doc/users/whats_new.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ revision, see the :ref:`github-stats`.
 
 new in matplotlib-1.3
 =====================
+
+Housecleaning
+-------------
+
+A number of features that were deprecated in 1.2 or earlier, or have
+not been in a working state for a long time have been removed.
+Highlights in include removing the Qt version 3 backends, and the
+FltkAgg and Emf backends.  See :ref:`changes_in_1_3` for a complete
+list.
+
 `xkcd`-style sketch plotting
 ----------------------------
 

diff --git a/examples/animation/old_animation/animation_blit_fltk.py b/examples/animation/old_animation/animation_blit_fltk.py
diff --git a/examples/misc/rc_traits.py b/examples/misc/rc_traits.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class PatchRC(traits.HasTraits):
    antialiased     = flexible_true_trait
 
 timezones = 'UTC', 'US/Central', 'ES/Eastern' # fixme: and many more
-backends = ('GTKAgg', 'Cairo', 'FltkAgg', 'GDK', 'GTK', 'Agg',
+backends = ('GTKAgg', 'Cairo', 'GDK', 'GTK', 'Agg',
            'GTKCairo', 'PS', 'SVG', 'Template', 'TkAgg',
            'WX')
 
@@ -192,6 +192,3 @@ def __init__(self,
    print()
    print('Patch')
    p.print_traits()
-
-
-