On 02/26/2011 04:25 PM, Michiel de Hoon wrote: > --- On Sat, 2/26/11, Eric Firing<efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> What about the non-interactive mode behavior--is it hard to >> make the MaxOSX backend behave like the others in that >> respect? > I agree that this should be done, but I just haven't found the time to look > at it (recently I have been looking at getting animations to work with the > MacOSX backend). Probably it is not all that hard, and I would welcome > contributions from other developers who use the MacOSX backend to get the > non-interactive mode behavior consistent with the other backends. > > On a related note, something I found confusing for new matplotlib users is > that after first installing it, matplotlib is non-interactive by default. > After installing matplotlib, I think users should be able to try it out and > make some simple plots that appear on the screen without having to find out > about interactive behavior and edit matplotlibrc. Especially people that are > new to programming or to Python may be disappointed if their first plotting > attempts don't seem to produce a figure.
That's a good point. Until fairly recently, interactive behavior worked across backends only via ipython magic, so I think the non-interactive default had a solid historical rationale. Now, however, we could probably make interactive mode the startup default for interactive backends without causing any problems. I agree that this would be more intuitive and more familiar to people coming from matlab. Eric > > --Michiel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
