Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Ryan May wrote: > I trust you're going to check in that completely awesome example. BTW, that completely awesome example was just demoed in front of a standing-room only audience at the SIAM CSE 11 meeting :) The matplotlib talk (delivered by yours truly b/c John

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Ryan May
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:50 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Brian Granger > The main issue I have is that I am working with undergraduate students >> who have no experience installing things from scratch.  In this >> context I am stuck with whatever is in EPD.  Currently E

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Brian Granger The main issue I have is that I am working with undergraduate students > who have no experience installing things from scratch.  In this > context I am stuck with whatever is in EPD.  Currently EPD is at > 1.0.1, which does not have animation.  Will th

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Brian Granger
>> Is the old method (just using draw/set_xdata, etc.) not supported?  I >> am working with a student and I want to keep is dead simple. > > The old method is subject to the problems you're encountering now > because you're working outside the GUI's event loop. The new method > was created to be "d

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Ryan May
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > Is the old method (just using draw/set_xdata, etc.) not supported?  I > am working with a student and I want to keep is dead simple. The old method is subject to the problems you're encountering now because you're working outside the GUI's e

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > Is the old method (just using draw/set_xdata, etc.) not supported? I > am working with a student and I want to keep is dead simple. > > Brian > > Those functions are still supported. I can run the example on that page without issues using

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Brian Granger > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to do a simple animation examples similar to the one here: > > > > > http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations#head-e50abcca4333d3d76b3f2bb66ef00f15c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Brian Granger
Is the old method (just using draw/set_xdata, etc.) not supported? I am working with a student and I want to keep is dead simple. Brian On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Hunter wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Brian Gr

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Brian Granger wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to do a simple animation examples similar to the one here: > > > http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations#head-e50abcca4333d3d76b3f2bb66ef00f15c6b4dbbc > > But it does not work. I have tried with different bac

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Brian Granger wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to do a simple animation examples similar to the one here: > > http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations#head-e50abcca4333d3d76b3f2bb66ef00f15c6b4dbbc > > But it does not work.  I have tried with different backen

[matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

2011-03-02 Thread Brian Granger
Hi, I am trying to do a simple animation examples similar to the one here: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations#head-e50abcca4333d3d76b3f2bb66ef00f15c6b4dbbc But it does not work. I have tried with different backends, plain python, within ipython. I am using ipython 0.10 and mat