[Matplotlib-users] Cannot maximize figure while script is running

[Angel E. M. <ang...@gm...>]

Hi,

I want to make a small python script that monitors a text file and plots its
contents. This script is meant to run in Windows. The file that is being
monitored has one floating point number per line and new numbers can be
appended to the end of the file at any moment by some external program.

Therefore the script needs to keep reading the file and if new data is
found, it should update the plot (a simple plot() command will do for now).
To do so the script has an endless loop that tries to read new data and if
it can it plots it and issues a pylab.draw() command.

I got the script working, (based on the "anim.py" example from the
Matplotlib web page: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/anim.py).
The script updates the plot correctly when new data is added to the file.
However, the figure itself is not really functional. By that I mean that the
figure cannot maximized while the script is running. It is not possible to
change the zoom or use the toolbar either.

The example script has the same problem (i.e. the figure cannot maximized),
so I'd like to know if there is any way around this or if I should use
something other than pylab instead.

Thanks!

Angel