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[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib windows start in background on Mac OS X

[Geoffrey I. <ir...@na...>]

Hello,

I'm using matplotlib through MacPorts (py26-matplotlib
@1.0.1_2+tkinter) on Mac OS X 10.6.8.  If I run pylab.show() from a
script, the plot window starts up in the background rather than taking
focus.  Is anyone else seeing this behavior or have ideas as to
workarounds?

There's a Raise function in wxWidgets that could in theory bring the
window into focus, but I'm not sure how to get access to the
appropriate object to call Raise on.

Thanks,
Geoffrey

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib windows start in background on Mac OS X

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Geoffrey Irving <ir...@na...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using matplotlib through MacPorts (py26-matplotlib
> @1.0.1_2+tkinter) on Mac OS X 10.6.8.  If I run pylab.show() from a
> script, the plot window starts up in the background rather than taking
> focus.  Is anyone else seeing this behavior or have ideas as to
> workarounds?
>

Hi,

Just for reference this windowing issue has been brought up before and
appears to be an issue on other backends/OSs:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg18200.html

The last reply<http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg18216.html>in
the thread suggests that controlling this behavior can be done, but
needs
someone with enough motivation to do it. Every few months, I get annoyed
enough with the current behavior that I look into trying to make the
suggested changes; soon after, I realize that I'm terrible at GUI
programming.

Best,
-Tony