On Monday, June 21, 2010 06:30:04 pm Eric Firing wrote: > On 06/21/2010 06:10 AM, Matthias Michler wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm encountering a strange problem with the RectangleSelector using the > > latest version of svn. Namely it doesn't work if it wasn't initialized > > as RS = RectangleSelector(...) > > but using > > RectangleSelector(...) > > in my script. > > > > I modified the example rectangle_selector.py from the folder > > examples/widgets to illustrate my observation. > > > > Can anybody reproduce my findings or even explain what is going on? > > If you don't keep a reference to the RectangleSelector object, it > vanishes--it is garbage-collected. > > Eric
Hi Eric, thanks for your reply. That sounds reasonable, but I'm still confused. With the matplotlib release 0.99.1.1 the RectangleSelector works with and without a reference to it. Was this old behavior somehow unintended? Kind regards, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
