On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:22:26PM -0400, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> I mostly work in an interactive shell (ipython), and if I simply call
> a blocking function (like raw_input)
> from the prompt, it also blocks the event loop of the matplotlib gui backend
> (it happens for GtkAgg, but not for TKAgg. I'm not sure with other
> backends, but I thought
> TKAgg is a special case.)
> So I wanted to call a raw_input (or other blocking function) in an
> interactive shell
> without freezing the figure.

> Hmm, maybe I'm missing something and there has been an very easy way to do it.
> My understading was that the gui event loop waits (without processing
> gui events)
> until the commands entered in the prompt finish.

Sorry, I got lost in dealing with urgent problems again.

I can't spend too much time looking at this issue, but I would like to
confirm that you do seem to have a use-case here that I cannot solve with
something simpler. If other people agree, I think we should move forward
with your solution.

Sorry for the slow response time,

Gaƫl 

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