Fernando Perez :
The lack of a clean pause/restart
functionality is indeed problematic. Furthermore, closing a window
that's running an animation, at least with the Qt backend, gave rise
to a massive swarm of 'C++ object has been deleted' messages flooding
the console where my ipython kernel had been started.
This happens also with different backends and the driving interface
(say, Idle with Tkinter...)
Some solutions exist. The simplest one is the following.
1. Use a particular event source, e.g. launch:
ani = anima.FuncAnimation(fig, proc, repeat=False, frames=sourcegen)
where
def sourcegen():
while running: yield 0 #or whatever
return
Include a button
def astop(ev=None):
global running
running=False
stopbutton.on_clicked(astop)
and it will kill your animation in a proper way. Restarting it demands
that "ani" be recreated within a callback, say, a startbutton.
But this is not pausing. Recreating the animation, recreating and
starting a timer, connecting all the callbacks... this takes time, and
you SEE it.
if you go down the road of implementing a
full-blown event loop for matplotlib, is how well it will play with
existing event loops. Whenever an interactive GUI backend is running,
there's already an event loop at work: that of the GUI toolkit.
Integrating multiple event loops in the same process takes some
delicate footwork if you don't want to end up with a nasty fight
between the two.
Absolutely.
But first, you don't need to launch show() and force some mainloop(),
MainLoop(), gtk.main(), etc. under the hood. We wrote some loops under
wx, simple-minded ; there is one included in the standard
docs-and-demos. I don't know yet how to force WindowUpdate from
Matplotlib, but some "plugin" solution should exist, since Matplotlib
does that already.
Second, even if an event loop runs already, the question is to plug in
the access to the concrete event queue mechanism, not to superpose
another one, and yell with horror at which level declare callbacks...
Thank you, Fernando.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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