[Matplotlib-users] Backend neutral idle event won't repeat

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Rubelmann
Hi, I'm writing a script to plot data being read from a serial connection in real time. I'm trying to use an idle_event callback to continually read the incoming data and plot it. The problem is that the callback is only getting invoked once. I found this page: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Mat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Backend neutral idle event won't repeat

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Rubelmann
Thanks for the reply John. Not quite the answer I was looking for though ;) I tried your suggestion of returning True but it didn't solve the problem. Oh well, not the end of the world. Being a die-hard KDE user, I started trying to get things working with Qt. I got my animation working bu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Backend neutral idle event won't repeat

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Rubelmann
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > >> Wriing a GUI neutal idle event handler is not easy -- I've spent some > >> time on it but crashed and burned on tk > > > I think > > it would be great if we could abstract the idle handler and timeout > > handler

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Windows 64 bit support for matplotlib?

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Rubelmann
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Clem Wang wrote: > Being a new Windows user, there's much that I don't understand... (please > no flaming here...) > > I'm running Windows 7 with a 64 bit OS. When I try to install: > matplotlib-0.98.5.3.win32-py2.6 > > I get this error message: > Python version 2