Can't move matplotlib windows on Mac

[guyer]

Matplotlib doesn't (easily?) support moving the windows around while a simulation is running on a Mac. Other platforms don't have a problem. pythonw and ipython don't seem to help this. Maybe we need to create our own event loop? http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#FREEZE may be relevant.

Imported from trac ticket #122, created by guyer on 03-05-2007 at 17:55, last modified: 12-19-2008 at 22:41

[guyer]

Note, by "Mac", I mean a Mac. fink is not a Mac.

Trac comment by guyer on 03-21-2007 at 10:58

[guyer]

[http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/examples/animation/dynamic_image_wxagg.py?revision=HEAD&view=markup dynamic_image_wxagg.py] and [http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/examples/animation/dynamic_image_wxagg2.py?revision=HEAD&view=markup dynamic_image_wxagg2.py] look promising, although they require the viewer to run on the main thread and the calculation to run in the background (a common requirement for this sort of thing). Not clear what the simplest way is to implement this in FiPy.

Trac comment by guyer on 07-03-2008 at 10:24

[guyer]

Upgrade matplotlib to at least 0.98.4 and use set the backend to "MacOSX". In theory, the "CocoaAgg" works, too, but I've never gotten it to work (and others report problems, too).

Trac comment by guyer on 12-19-2008 at 22:41