Huh, bizarre. So neither of you get the little rocket-ship app icon appear when
matplotlib first draws a window?
And matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] is definitely 'MacOSX'?
Hopefully someone who knows more about the OS X backend can comment here...
Zach
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Chris Laumann wrote:
> I get the exact same behavior from both Enthought supplied python and Apple
> supplied python. I haven't tried any other pythons, but it isn't limited to
> the Apple one.
>
> C
>
> On Apr 11, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Elliot Saba wrote:
>
>> I'm using homebrew python, which is built from source, and the latest
>> matplotlib gotten from git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git. (I
>> rebuilt it ~2 minutes ago)
>>
>> Perhaps there's some kind of environment difference?
>> -E
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pin...@yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 1. Keyboard input always goes to the terminal. Shortcuts don't work in the
>>> standard plot windows and my custom widgets no longer catch
>>> key_press_events (I'm not sure when this functionality broke exactly as I
>>> haven't used those widgets much recently but it worked when I developed 'em
>>> a year or two ago.)
>>>
>>> 2. There's no icon in the cmd-tab task switcher corresponding to the figure
>>> windows. Swapping to the terminal running ipython (or the qtconsole for
>>> ipython qtconsole) does not raise the windows.
>>>
>>> 3. Using mission control, the figures appear grouped as if they belong to
>>> an application of their own. However, when you click on them to swap to
>>> them and bring them forward from behind other windows, they raise and then
>>> immediately disappear again. I think that mission control is raising the
>>> specific window you select from the collection of figures, but then OSX is
>>> somehow immediately re-raising the previously selected app, which hides the
>>> figures again.
>>
>> Hmm, I don't really see these issues, using a dev matplotlib, OS X 10.7.3,
>> and a python.org python 2.7. Interesting. (This is with the 'MacOSX'
>> backend, mind. Also note that on March 5 there was a patch to that backend
>> to fix a few issues, so if your matplotlib checkout is before that, perhaps
>> that's the problem?)
>>
>> Anyhow, when I start python (or ipython), and then do "import
>> matplotlib.pyplot as plt", nothing happens, but then "plt.figure()", for
>> example, causes a new dock icon to appear -- a python rocket-ship thing --
>> that acts as an "app" that owns the figure windows. I can use this app to
>> switch to / raise the windows from the dock or the cmd-tab switcher, and
>> things work correctly via mission control as well.
>>
>> The keyboard shortcuts are a bit flaky ('s' never seems to work, but I can
>> e.g. toggle gridlines with 'g' or log-axes with 'l'), but the key-presses
>> definitely don't go to the terminal.
>>
>> I wonder what the difference is? Perhaps the apple-supplied python is a bit
>> broken in this regard?
>>
>> Zach
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