[matplotlib-devel] GtkAgg Backend and Threads

2010-05-14 Thread Dennis Muhlestein
We have an app that creates some background threads and is doing work at the same time it displays a pylab figure. We noticed the worker threads stopped working while we're looking at the figure and then things start working again after we close it. Turns out, from the faq [1], you can have ba

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Direction keys not recognized in Qt4 backend

2010-05-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tony S Yu wrote: > I'm running the Qt4 backend, and I noticed that I'd frequently get error > messages saying I was pressing unrecognized keys. It turns out that the > direction keys aren't recognized in the qt4 backend. (I'm using direction > keys to switch bet

[matplotlib-devel] Direction keys not recognized in Qt4 backend

2010-05-14 Thread Tony S Yu
I'm running the Qt4 backend, and I noticed that I'd frequently get error messages saying I was pressing unrecognized keys. It turns out that the direction keys aren't recognized in the qt4 backend. (I'm using direction keys to switch between spaces in OSX, so this error gets triggered quite freq