> I guess there is no reason you can't do it with pylab after all, see
> animation_blit_qt4, for example. I think you would be better off using a
gui
> timer/event handler like in the blit example.
>
> Darren
Darren, thanks a lot for your help!
I tried the animation_blit_tk example but it did not work as I expected it
to. It still was not possible to resize or maximize the window while the
animation was running.
However you gave me the clue to make it work by modifying the example just a
little.
I have been looking for a while to a solution to this problem, so let me
explain how I got it to work just in case someone is interested.
Basically, the original example (animation_blit_tk.py) does:
manager = p.get_current_fig_manager()
followed by
manager.window.after(1000, run)
to schedule the execution of a function (called run) 100 ms after the
function pylab.show() function is called. The problem is that their run
function has an infinite loop that does the animation and never exits. I
guess that does not let the GUI thread respond to GUI events (maximize and
resize).
Instead, the solution is to make the run function update the plot only once
(i.e. do one single animation frame) AND then call manager.window.after(100,
run) and return. This schedules the next animation frame but gives a chance
to the GUI thread to responds to events.
The single question that I have is whether this .window.after function works
with all types of GUI toolkits. I personally use Tk, since it comes builtin,
but does it also work with Wx and QT?
Thanks a lot for your help, Darren!
Angel
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