Fixes for bugs related to SDOE in 3.21-rc (#1210)

* restricting matplotlib due to issues when using 3.8

* cast parameter for setValue to int

* Add link to #1211

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Co-authored-by: Ludovico Bianchi <lbianchi@lbl.gov>

foqus_lib/gui/sdoe/sdoeAnalysisDialog.py

@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ def runSdoeNUSF(self):
                 "mwr = %d, n = %d" % (mwr, results[mwr]["num_restarts"])
             )
             count += 1
-            self.SDOE2_progressBar.setValue((100 / len(mwr_list)) * count)
+            self.SDOE2_progressBar.setValue(int((100 / len(mwr_list)) * count))
             QApplication.processEvents()
 
         self.unfreeze()

setup.py

@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@
         "cma",
         "dask[dataframe,distributed]",  # <2024.3",
         # prebuilt wheels not available on 3.11 for matplotlib<3.6 on: macos arm64, win32
-        "matplotlib==3.*",
+        # matplotlib>=3.8 has API incompatibilities with SDoE plots
+        # see CCSI-Toolset/FOQUS#1211 for more information
+        "matplotlib >= 3.6.0, <= 3.7.5",
         "python-tsp==0.3.1",
         "mplcursors",
         "numpy",