Re: [matplotlib-devel] Uniform GUI support across matplotlib, ets and ipython

2010-08-28 Thread Michiel de Hoon
I implemented an event loop in the MacOSX backend and the PyOS_ImportHook event loop in PyGTK, so I've been interested in this topic. If I understand guisupport.py correctly, IPython runs the backend-specific event loop. Have you considered to implement an event loop in IPython and to run that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Patch for Qt4 backend for IPython GUI

2010-08-28 Thread Eric Firing
On 08/28/2010 09:38 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Eric Firing wrote: >> I committed it. >> > > Many thanks Eric, for being so responsive! Fernando, I'm glad to help; ipython is a crucial part of the tool set. > > Some eye candy to give you an idea of what we're g

[matplotlib-devel] Uniform GUI support across matplotlib, ets and ipython

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Granger
Hi all, As you may know, this summer we have been working on a new two process IPython that has a beautiful Qt frontend GUI and a ZMQ based messaging layer between that GUI and the new IPython kernel. Many thanks to Enthought for funding this effort! We are currently in the process of adding GU

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Patch for Qt4 backend for IPython GUI

2010-08-28 Thread Fernando Perez
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > I committed it. > Many thanks Eric, for being so responsive! Some eye candy to give you an idea of what we're getting from this work: http://fperez.org/tmp/multiplot.png http://fperez.org/tmp/multiplot2.png The second is the MPL contours e

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Patch for Qt4 backend for IPython GUI

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Granger
Eric, On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > On 08/26/2010 05:13 PM, Brian Granger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are in the process of getting our new Qt IPython GUI working with >> matplotlib.  One problem we have found is that the matplotlib qt4 >> backend always creates a QApplication