Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-30 Thread Bill Baxter
Hi Ken, Thanks for the reply. On 7/31/06, Ken McIvor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 24, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: > > I think all these problems could be fixed if the display interface > > were turned into a separate process that communicates with the Python > > program using pipes

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-30 Thread Ken McIvor
On Jul 24, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: > I think all these problems could be fixed if the display interface > were turned into a separate process that communicates with the Python > program using pipes or some other IPC mechanism. I used this > technique in a (C/C++) image debugging utili

[matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-29 Thread Bill Baxter
Matplotlib is quite nice, but I keep running into problems with the actual display interface. In some cases the plot window freezes and such when using it from a debugger, or sometimes pylab.show() just never returns. Matlab's plotting interface just never gave me so much trouble. I think all the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Baxter
Hi Stephen, Yep, ipython is not bad, but it is not really a replacement for a real IDE. IPython also seems to act a little wanky with graphs to me. For instance my plots seem to get drawn interactively (read: very SLOWLY) when I use the special -pylab mode. Maybe I'm not configuring ipython

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-28 Thread Stephen Walton
Bill Baxter wrote: > I think all these problems could be fixed if the display interface > were turned into a separate process Have you tried ipython? http://ipython.scipy.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

[matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib as a separate process

2006-07-24 Thread Bill Baxter
Matplotlib is quite nice, but I keep running into problems with the actual display interface. In some cases the plot window freezes and such when using it from a debugger, or sometimes pylab.show() just never returns. Matlab's plotting interface just never gave me so much trouble. I think all the