On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Adrian Jacobo <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Thanks for your help. I gave up trying to make Trilinos work with my
> macports installation and ended up installing everything with homebrew,
> following the guide on the wiki (there are a few hicups along the way
> because some things don't work right away in Mountain Lion, but nothing
> critical).
>   I've noticed something with this new installation. When I ran the
> diffusion.circle example using my previous installation the FiPy opened
> a matplotlib viewer, and now with the homebrew based installation it
> opens a Mayavi viewer. Is this normal?


It should open a Matplotlib viewer by default unless it isn't available.


> how does FiPy determine which
> kind of viewer to use?
>

See this
http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/documentation/USAGE.html#envvar-FIPY_VIEWER.
Set "FIPY_VIEWER" to "matplotlib" or "mayavi" and it should take care of
it. You can also instantiate the viewers directly, see the viewers at
http://matforge.org/fipy/browser/fipy/fipy/viewers.

Cheers

-- 
Daniel Wheeler
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