Internal Error: TclError: bad screen distance "640.0"

[didley@…]

After using Tracmetrix I received a error message:

File "f:\programme\python25\lib\site-packages\Trac-0.11dev-py2.5.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 434, in dispatch_request
  dispatcher.dispatch(req)
File "f:\programme\python25\lib\site-packages\Trac-0.11dev-py2.5.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 217, in dispatch
  resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracmetrixplugin\mdashboard.py", line 416, in process_requestFile "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracmetrixplugin\mdashboard.py", line 537, in _render_viewFile "build\bdist.win32\egg\tracmetrixplugin\mdashboard.py", line 287, in create_cummulative_chartFile "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 2317, in cla
  ret =  gca().cla(*args, **kwargs)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 883, in gca
  ax =  gcf().gca(**kwargs)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 893, in gcf
  return figure()
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 859, in figure
  figManager = new_figure_manager(num, figsize=figsize, dpi=dpi, facecolor=facecolor, edgecolor=edgecolor, frameon=frameon, FigureClass=FigureClass, **kwargs)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", line 90, in new_figure_manager
  figManager = FigureManagerTkAgg(canvas, num, window)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", line 274, in __init__
  self.toolbar = NavigationToolbar2TkAgg( canvas, self.window )
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", line 545, in __init__
  NavigationToolbar2.__init__(self, canvas)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py", line 1163, in __init__
  self._init_toolbar()
File "F:\Programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", line 585, in _init_toolbar
  borderwidth=2)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2442, in __init__
  Widget.__init__(self, master, 'frame', cnf, {}, extra)
File "F:\Programme\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1930, in __init__
  (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))

code fragment:

1925.   for k in cnf.keys():
1926. if type(k) is ClassType:
1927. classes.append((k, cnf[k]))
1928. del cnf[k]
1929. self.tk.call(
1930. (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
1931. for k, v in classes:
1932. k.configure(self, v)
1933. def destroy(self):
1934. """Destroy this and all descendants widgets."""
1935. for c in self.children.values(): c.destroy()

local variables:

classes  	[]
cnf 	{'width': 640.0, 'borderwidth': 2, 'height': 50}
extra 	()
k 	'height'
kw 	{}
master 	<Tkinter.Tk instance at 0x027E2C60>
self 	<matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg.NavigationToolbar2TkAgg instance at ...
widgetName 	'frame'

[Bhuricha Deen Sethanandha]

Hi,

Look like you have problem with Matplotlib module. I use following configuration and it works.

​http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracMetrixPlugin#SystemRequirements

I am not sure when I will be able to get to this bug as I am working on the enhancement. It would be great if you could try to use plugin on the same configuration and see if the problem exists.

[didley@…]

Sorry! But I cant try to install with python 2.4.4 . I'm using Python 25. But after a reinstall now I have an another error. Looks not so hard.

TclError: bad screen distance "640.0"

What means that?

[didley@…]

Sorry! But there is no time to try to install with python 2.4.4 . I'm using python 2.5

Maybe in my private time.

[Bhuricha Deen Sethanandha]

didley, thanks for your interest. I will get to this bug once I completed the baseline functionality on Aug 20.

Please also tell me the version of the packages you use. (numpy, matplotlib, gtk) I will try to replicate your configuration and test it.

[didley@…]

hi,

I'm using

• Python 2.5
• Python 2.5 numpy-1.0.3
• Python 2.5 pygtk-2.10.4
• Python 2.5 matplotlib-0.90.1
• Python 2.5 svn-python-1.43

[lexter]

Hi!!

I'm getting the same error while running some code. The weird thing it's that I get the error only in some computers, in others works perfect. Even in the same computer, for one user works OK and for another one not.

Some help please, I've spent 2 days running in circles...

[anonymous]

Hi!

I get also the problem of

tkinter.TclError: bad screen distance "320.0"

The error occurs, when I import

from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas from matplotlib.figure import Figure from matplotlib.pyplot import imshow

and proceed

imshow(matrix)

after

self.dpi = 100

self.fig = Figure(dpi=self.dpi)

self.canvas = FigureCanvas(self.fig)

I want to use imshow in an QT-Application to have fast look for intensity plots.

Would be great, if anybody could help me!

[John Doe III.]

Hi,

just for completeness' sake and because this page was the first one Google came up with when searching for that error (and because it drove us nuts for two days): We have observed the same error message ("bad screen distance 640.0") with python 2.7.0, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 when trying to plot with matplotlib 1.0.1 (all in Windows 64 bit).

The weird thing was that it worked on one machine, but not on the one next to it, which was set up in exactly the same way - or at least we thought so. We found the solution on ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395867: It turns out the numerical locale was different on the two machines. It worked when the locale was English, but failed for German. I.e., it seems the "640.0" is being converted from a string to float/integer at some point, and that only works in the English numerical locale, where the decimal point is the "." (in German it's the ",").

For us, it worked to manually set the locale just before initializing the matplotlib figure (from the linked bug report):

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'C')

Cheers, JD