Re: [Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Straw
signal seeker wrote: > Bill, > > The problem is I am writing a bunch of diagonistic tools for users who > do not know anything about unix. > they just want to type a bunch of commands on a shell and see the plots > and they hardly know anything fancy like sending processes to the > background :) >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-13 Thread signal seeker
Bill, The problem is I am writing a bunch of diagonistic tools for users who do not know anything about unix. they just want to type a bunch of commands on a shell and see the plots and they hardly know anything fancy like sending processes to the background :) I guess, I am going to have to use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-13 Thread signal seeker
Bill, Thanks for your reply. pylab(ion) is not what I meant. Consider this simply script - . # simple.py from pylab import * plot([1,2,3]) show() Now, if I do python simple.py on a cmd prompt, this will open up a plot window, but the script won't return until the plot window is closed.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-12 Thread Bill Baxter
I'm not sure what you're after exactly, but your design needs may be solved by calling pylab.ion(True). If not the ezplot library that I wrote may do it for you. http://www.python.org/pypi/ezplot/0.1.0a3 --bb On 6/13/07, signal seeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am very new to

[Matplotlib-users] spawning plots as separate processes

2007-06-12 Thread signal seeker
Hi All, I am very new to matplotlib and still trying to find my way through docs and api, so please excuse me if there is a simple way to do this. So the situation is this - I would like to write a script that spawns multiple plots and exits, but the plots window do not die until they are expli