[BUG] Using Plots with plotly backend only shows white.

[chrisoffner3d]

Details

When I use Plots with the plotly backend, I get only a white area. It works fine if I use gr() instead, see image:

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)		x
pyplot			x
plotlyjs	x		x
pgfplotsx			x
unicodeplots			x
inspectdr			x
gaston			x

Versions

Plots.jl version: v1.24.4
Backend version (]st -m <backend(s)>): v0.18.8
Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.7.0
Commit 3bf9d17731 (2021-11-30 12:12 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin21.1.0)
  CPU: Apple M1
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.1 (ORCJIT, cyclone)

What can I do to make this work?

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Can you try Plots v.1.24.3 ?

[chrisoffner3d]

@BeastyBlacksmith Sorry for the beginner question but how do I do that? I tried

]rm Plots
]add Plots@1.24.3

and Pkg.status() then shows me

  Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.7/Project.toml`
  [b8a86587] NearestNeighbors v0.4.9
  [58dd65bb] Plotly v0.4.1
  [a03496cd] PlotlyBase v0.8.18
  [f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.18.8
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.24.3
  [c3e4b0f8] Pluto v0.17.2
  [7f904dfe] PlutoUI v0.7.21
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra
  [10745b16] Statistics

but when I run Pluto.run() I still get

From worker 3:	      Status `/private/var/folders/52/7c2g08dx6k1fjgr5f5c3h9mr0000gn/T/jl_96XgPH/Project.toml`
      From worker 3:	  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.24.4 ❗️
      From worker 3:	  [44cfe95a] Pkg
      From worker 3:	[ Info: For saving to png with the Plotly backend PlotlyBase has to be installed.

[chrisoffner3d]

When I instead use the REPL and do

julia> import Pkg; Pkg.status()
      Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.7/Project.toml`
  [b8a86587] NearestNeighbors v0.4.9
  [58dd65bb] Plotly v0.4.1
  [a03496cd] PlotlyBase v0.8.18
  [f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.18.8
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.24.3
  [c3e4b0f8] Pluto v0.17.2
  [7f904dfe] PlutoUI v0.7.21
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra
  [10745b16] Statistics

julia> using Plots; plotly()
Plots.PlotlyBackend()

julia> plot([1,2,3], [1,4,9])

I do get a browser window that shows me a functioning plot:

[t-bltg]

@jks-liu, can you check if this a regression induced by #3958 ?

[chrisoffner3d]

Okay, when I force my Pluto notebook to use Plots v1.24.3 it works as expected. It does seem like v1.24.4 is the culprit here.

[jks-liu]

I'll check this.