I can confirm all three of these issues. Having never used matplotlib
outside of OSX Lion, I thought this was standard for MPL, I'm glad to hear
it's not, but I agree that these are very important issues to be addressed.
-E
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Chris Laumann <claum...@physics.harvard.edu
> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I've been running into this issue for the last few months and at first
> thought it was Enthought specific but now have confirmed it on a clean
> (virtualenv) install of Fonnesbeck's superpack using built in Apple python
> and a dev matplotlib on Lion.
>
> With the OSX backend, figures clearly have focus issues:
>
> 1. Keyboard input always goes to the terminal. Shortcuts don't work in the
> standard plot windows and my custom widgets no longer catch
> key_press_events (I'm not sure when this functionality broke exactly as I
> haven't used those widgets much recently but it worked when I developed 'em
> a year or two ago.)
>
> 2. There's no icon in the cmd-tab task switcher corresponding to the
> figure windows. Swapping to the terminal running ipython (or the qtconsole
> for ipython qtconsole) does not raise the windows.
>
> 3. Using mission control, the figures appear grouped as if they belong to
> an application of their own. However, when you click on them to swap to
> them and bring them forward from behind other windows, they raise and then
> immediately disappear again. I think that mission control is raising the
> specific window you select from the collection of figures, but then OSX is
> somehow immediately re-raising the previously selected app, which hides the
> figures again.
>
> Just to check its not IPython's fault, I also checked running a bare
> python, import all from pylab and showed a (blocking) figure -- exact same
> behavior.
>
> Is this a known bug? It's quite annoying not to be able to switch focus to
> a plot window.
>
> Best, Chris
>
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