That did the trick. I tried going through the source code but it just got too 
messy. How do I let the networkx developers know about this?
On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Koehler <jjkoehl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am currently trying to have two panels each with their own figure instance 
> so they can have separate plots.
> 
> I can successfully update a plot if there is only one panel. As soon as I add 
> a second panel, I get the following error when I try to update (replot) a 
> plot (Showing last message only):
> 
> File 
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
>  line 1374, in _sci
>     "Argument must be an image, collection, or ContourSet in this Axes")
> ValueError: Argument must be an image, collection, or ContourSet in this Axes
> 
> I looked online first and one site suggested it was because I was using 
> matplotlib.Figure instead of pylab.Figure. I switched and the problem still 
> occurs. I was curious to see if this problem had to do with how I set up my 
> program, not with matplotlib, so I wrote a little test program. The exact 
> same problem occurs. I have attached the test program. To see that it does 
> work with just one panel comment out lines 39, 41, and 49. When put back in, 
> I get the above error message.
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> Josh,
> 
> Can you please post the entire traceback?  My suspicion for what is happening 
> is that both figures are sharing the same canvas, but I am not exactly sure.  
> Anyway, when you perform a plot on one panel, you are calling "clear()" for 
> that figure, which may be having side-effects for the other figure since it 
> is attached to the same Wx object.
> 
> Actually, looking over your code again, I see a few things that may or may 
> not be part of the problem, but should be addressed, nevertheless.  First, 
> you are calling FigureCanvas and assigning it to self.canvas.  This canvas is 
> different from the canvas that the figure will actually use, so I am not sure 
> if this is being done correctly.  Second, your call to "plt.close()" assumes 
> that the figure you want to close is the currently active figure.  What you 
> want to call is "plt.close(self.figure)" in order to make sure it closes the 
> figure you intend to close.
> 
> Ben Root

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