On 06/11/2010 10:02 PM, Michiel de Hoon wrote: >> I agree that the difference in blocking behavior is still a >> problem. I think that what we should do for now, *if* multiple >> calls to show work on the Mac (which I can't easily test), is >> change the documentation to correspond to the present situation, >> highlighting the real problem of different blocking behavior. > > On Mac OS X, the MacOSX native backend supports multiple calls to show(). > Each call to show() blocks, and show() returns when all figures are closed by > the user. > OK, so this sounds like the standard blocking behavior, just like gtk*, wx*, and qt* on Linux.
> With TkAgg on Mac OS X, the first call to show() blocks, and returns when all > figures are closed by the user. However, subsequent calls to show() return > immediately. > This is anomalous, then; on linux, no call to show blocks with tkagg. Puzzling difference. > With GtkCairo on Mac OS X, each call to show() blocks, so show() can be > called repeatedly. However, after closing all windows, show() does not return > unless the user presses ctrl-c. This may not be so difficult to fix though. > Basically, we need to keep track of how many windows are open at any given > point, and tell the GTK main loop to exit when the number of windows reaches > zero (this is how the MacOSX native backend does it). > I wasn't even aware of this backend; but sure enough, I have it on linux, and it works the same as gtkagg et al. Why would it behave differently on OS X, with the need for the ctrl-C? If you have TkAgg and GtkCairo, does it mean you also have GtkAgg? If so, I would expect it to behave like GtkCairo. Thanks for the testing. Eric > --Michiel. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
