DOC: Start to document interactive figures #4779

tacaswell · 2015-07-24T06:28:55Z

This is still a work in progress (as there are still empty sections)

@mdehoon @WeatherGod Thoughts?

mdehoon · 2015-07-24T09:36:51Z

Btw I think issue #4732 should be addressed first.

tacaswell · 2015-07-24T16:45:56Z

#4732 in addressed by #4738

tacaswell · 2015-08-06T19:57:50Z

@mdehoon Have you had a chance to look at the updated text?

mdboom · 2015-08-06T20:41:12Z

doc/users/interactive_guide.rst

+graphs.
+
+This page is meant to be a rapid introduction to the relevant details of
+integrating the matplotlib with a GUI event loop.


Maybe add the reference: "For further details see: http://www.amazon.com/Interactive-Applications-using-Matplotlib-Benjamin/dp/1783988843?"

blink1073 · 2015-09-01T03:07:49Z

doc/users/interactive_guide.rst

+even with matplotlib in 'interactive mode', may not work in the
+vanilla python repl if an appropriate `PyOS_InputHook` is not
+registered.  We suggest using ``IPython``, which in addition to
+improving the command line, ensures that such a `PyOS_InptuHook`


mdboom · 2015-10-20T18:23:18Z

I'm not going to let this hold up 1.5.0 -- as it's doc only, it's low cost to just put it in 1.5.1.

QuLogic · 2016-02-18T01:12:39Z

I don't think this is required to be on 2.0.

QuLogic

Is this still WIP?

doc/users/interactive.rst

tacaswell · 2020-05-07T22:05:15Z

In principle this is good to go, but I am not a great writer...

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doc/api/blocking_input_api.rst

doc/users/interactive.rst

QuLogic · 2020-05-08T03:59:25Z

doc/users/interactive.rst

+   :template: autosummary.rst
+   :nosignatures:
+
+   pyplot.show


Was there a reason for having these two separately from the above?

I was trying to group ion, ioff, isinteractive as a "family" that queries and modifies the state of interactive mode and these two as a "family" that may run the GUI event loop. I'm not sure if it works as well in practice as it does in my head.

It's a logical distinction; is it worth preceding each group with a concise statement of what makes it a family?

doc/users/interactive_guide.rst

lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py

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QuLogic

I suppose we can leave this till Monday or whenever we tag 3.3 rc.

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efiring

Partial review so far--I haven't looked beyond interactive.rst. Thank you for moving this forward. It doesn't have to be perfect to be merged; it's a big step in the right direction.

efiring · 2020-05-10T06:10:31Z

doc/users/interactive.rst

+   :template: autosummary.rst
+   :nosignatures:
+
+   pyplot.show


It's a logical distinction; is it worth preceding each group with a concise statement of what makes it a family?

doc/users/interactive.rst

efiring · 2020-05-10T06:20:16Z

doc/users/interactive.rst

+If you are in non-interactive mode (or created figures while in
+non-interactive mode) you may need to explicitly call `.pyplot.show`
+to bring the windows onto your screen.  If you only want to run the
+GUI event loop for a fixed amount of time you can use `.pyplot.pause`.


-> "GUI event loop and block for a fixed amount of time..." In the typical (I suspect) use case, the key desired behavior is the blocking, not the interactivity via the GUI event loop.

doc/users/interactive.rst

efiring · 2020-05-10T06:36:18Z

doc/users/interactive.rst

+integrated with your command prompt.  If you have the GUI event loop
+integrated with your prompt, then shown figures will be "live" while
+the prompt is waiting for input, if it is not integrated then your
+figures will only be "live" when the GUI event loop is running (via


This is confusing to me. Where does "interactive mode" fit into this second part of the paragraph? Maybe the missing point is that in "interactive mode" but without ipython magic, when working at the command line, the figure will be updated on the screen with each command, but it will not respond to mouse actions or keystrokes; for that, one needs the magic.

At least PyQt and tkinter have ship with hooks that integrate with the readline implementation of the "plain" Python prompt. The IPython magic is the easiest way but not the only way.

efiring · 2020-05-10T06:58:11Z

doc/users/interactive.rst

+Close Figure                       :rc:`keymap.quit`
+Constrain pan/zoom to x axis       hold **x** when panning/zooming with mouse
+Constrain pan/zoom to y axis       hold **y** when panning/zooming with mouse
+Preserve aspect ratio              hold **CONTROL** when panning/zooming with mouse


This is needed only for zooming, I think; panning never changes the aspect ratio.

right-click pan will change the view limits and respect this.

I've never heard of right-click pan before, as far as I know. Maybe I've never stumbled over it because I use the Mac trackpad rather than a mouse.

right-click zoom zooms out (by putting the current view limits to be where the box you drew was)

doc/users/interactive.rst

doc/users/interactive_guide.rst

QuLogic

A couple small typos.

doc/users/interactive.rst

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QuLogic · 2020-05-21T03:56:56Z

I don't know if it's old, or too large, or what, but I had to try 3 times to merge that...

In bb8058a via matplotlib#4779 I accidentally deleted the (illustrated) section on what the buttons on the default toolbar do. I suspect that this was a bad rebase as I do not think I would have intentionally deleted this content. This commit: - restores the content as-was: git checkout b49973a doc/users/navigation_toolbar.rst - fixes the paths to images (the files have moved around) - copy the navigation content into interactive.rst and re-remove navigation_toolbar.rst Partially addresses matplotlib#25266.

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