Hi, A "quick afternoon hack" developed into what seems to me to be a useful and simple framework for doing animations in matplotlib, utilizing the timed idle event in GTK (currently). It also supports writing out a movie file using ffmpeg. Particular issues:
1) Supporting backends other than gtk. I'm not sure how to mimic the behavior of gobject.idle_add() with Qt and Wx. Also, I'm not sure if code to mimic this belongs with the animation class or should be kept with the backend to allow use elsewhere. 2) The FuncAnimation class is written to allow an easy way to make a more "procedural" animation, such as one that displays data while reading from a live source, or draws a line repeatedly adding the points. My question is whether the interface makes sense or if it's even worthwhile since it's just saving a couple lines of code that would be necessary to just to a straightforward Animation subclass. The code still needs quite a bit of clean up and thought to make sure that the classes are broken up into the proper parts, as well as documentation, but I wanted to see if this seems like a good way to go to add easy animation support to matplotlib. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma
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