Hi Stephen, Yep, ipython is not bad, but it is not really a replacement for a real IDE. IPython also seems to act a little wanky with graphs to me. For instance my plots seem to get drawn interactively (read: very SLOOOOOWLY) when I use the special -pylab mode. Maybe I'm not configuring ipython properly, but part of my point is that end users shouldn't have to think about it, and shouldn't need some special -pylab mode. It should just work. And I think it would if the displayer's guts were in a completely separate process, acting as a graph display server.
The only complication I can see is for callbacks from mouse and keyboard events that occur on the graphs (but does matplotlib even support that yet?-- I only saw it mentioned on the web page). Those events would still need to find their way into callbacks in the original process. But that's doable too, I think. Just use a separate thread for communication with the graph display server. And would perhaps be even less painful than dealing with the wx event loop. Anyway, it's more of a 'food for thought' suggestion than anything else. It's not like I'm going to have time to implement it (though it seems like it would be a fun project if I did have the time). I am curious as to what the current thinking is about tacking such event loop issues, though. Surely folks don't think that "use ipython" is the be-all-and-end-all ultimate solution. --bb On 7/26/06, Stephen Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: > > I think all these problems could be fixed if the display interface > > were turned into a separate process > Have you tried ipython? > > http://ipython.scipy.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
