matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Gellule Xg <gel...@fr...> wrote:
> On 1/13/12 12:53 , Tony Yu wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gellule Xg <gel...@fr...
>> <mailto:gel...@fr...>> wrote:
>>
>> If you are a macosx backend user, you are welcomed to test the
>> following
>> branch: https://github.com/gellule/**matplotlib<https://github.com/gellule/matplotlib>.
>> With the branch, when
>> issuing a pylab.show() in non-interactive mode, the plot windows should
>> appear in the foreground with focus, instead of appearing in the
>> background. It should make things a little easier for you.
>>
>>
>> This works as advertised on my system (plot window grabs focus when
>> running scripts in MacVim, Terminal, and IPython when in non-interactive
>> mode). Unfortunately, I tend to use the QT4Agg backend, which also
>> leaves plot windows in the background. Maybe I'd switch to the macosx
>> backend with this addition.
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> I am also curious to know what people think of making pylab.show() also
>> yield the focus to the plot windows in -interactive- mode? All the
>> other
>> commands update the plot windows automatically, keeping the focus in
>> the
>> python interpreter. So pylab.show() would only do that: yield the focus
>> to the plot windows. That is not in the branch (yet).
>>
>>
>> I'd lean toward no: the plot window shouldn't grab focus in interactive
>> mode. I have some scripts that take command-line input in-between plot
>> calls. If the plot window grabbed focus, then I'd have to switch focus
>> back to enter input. This probably isn't a common use case, though.
>>
>
> But you don't use show() in interactive mode, do you? The focus grab would
> not happen until you call show().
>
> I other words, show() would always send the focus to the plot windows. But
> depending on how interactive is set, it would block or not. If you are in
> interactive mode and don't want to send the focus to the plot windows, you
> would have to not call show().
>
> -Julien
>
Good point: my scripts call draw(), instead of show(). Ignore what I said
earlier. :)
-Tony

On 1/13/12 12:53 , Tony Yu wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gellule Xg <gel...@fr...
> <mailto:gel...@fr...>> wrote:
>
> If you are a macosx backend user, you are welcomed to test the following
> branch: https://github.com/gellule/matplotlib. With the branch, when
> issuing a pylab.show() in non-interactive mode, the plot windows should
> appear in the foreground with focus, instead of appearing in the
> background. It should make things a little easier for you.
>
>
> This works as advertised on my system (plot window grabs focus when
> running scripts in MacVim, Terminal, and IPython when in non-interactive
> mode). Unfortunately, I tend to use the QT4Agg backend, which also
> leaves plot windows in the background. Maybe I'd switch to the macosx
> backend with this addition.
Thanks!
> I am also curious to know what people think of making pylab.show() also
> yield the focus to the plot windows in -interactive- mode? All the other
> commands update the plot windows automatically, keeping the focus in the
> python interpreter. So pylab.show() would only do that: yield the focus
> to the plot windows. That is not in the branch (yet).
>
>
> I'd lean toward no: the plot window shouldn't grab focus in interactive
> mode. I have some scripts that take command-line input in-between plot
> calls. If the plot window grabbed focus, then I'd have to switch focus
> back to enter input. This probably isn't a common use case, though.
But you don't use show() in interactive mode, do you? The focus grab 
would not happen until you call show().
I other words, show() would always send the focus to the plot windows. 
But depending on how interactive is set, it would block or not. If you 
are in interactive mode and don't want to send the focus to the plot 
windows, you would have to not call show().
-Julien

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gellule Xg <gel...@fr...> wrote:
> If you are a macosx backend user, you are welcomed to test the following
> branch: https://github.com/gellule/matplotlib. With the branch, when
> issuing a pylab.show() in non-interactive mode, the plot windows should
> appear in the foreground with focus, instead of appearing in the
> background. It should make things a little easier for you.
>
This works as advertised on my system (plot window grabs focus when running
scripts in MacVim, Terminal, and IPython when in non-interactive mode).
Unfortunately, I tend to use the QT4Agg backend, which also leaves plot
windows in the background. Maybe I'd switch to the macosx backend with this
addition.
> I am also curious to know what people think of making pylab.show() also
> yield the focus to the plot windows in -interactive- mode? All the other
> commands update the plot windows automatically, keeping the focus in the
> python interpreter. So pylab.show() would only do that: yield the focus
> to the plot windows. That is not in the branch (yet).
>
I'd lean toward no: the plot window shouldn't grab focus in interactive
mode. I have some scripts that take command-line input in-between plot
calls. If the plot window grabbed focus, then I'd have to switch focus back
to enter input. This probably isn't a common use case, though.
-Tony
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Gellule/Julien
>
>