Re: [matplotlib-devel] Simple animation test

[Brian G. <ell...@gm...>]

Is the old method (just using draw/set_xdata, etc.) not supported?  I
am working with a student and I want to keep is dead simple.

Brian

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Brian Granger <ell...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to do a simple animation examples similar to the one here:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations#head-e50abcca4333d3d76b3f2bb66ef00f15c6b4dbbc
>> >
>> > But it does not work.  I have tried with different backends, plain
>> > python, within ipython.  I am using ipython 0.10 and matplotlib 0.99.3
>> > from EPD.  I have used this approach in the past, but no luck this
>> > time.  If I add a show() early on, the first plot shows OK, but it
>> > sits and waits until I close the plot window before moving on.  Any
>> > ideas?
>>
>> If you are running mpl from the development tree on github, I suggest
>> you use the new animations API, which hides much of the complexity.
>> See
>>
>>  https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/examples/animation
>>
>> If you are running a released mpl, you can simply drop the
>> animation.py file into your PYTHONPATH and use it directly
>>
>>
>>  https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/animation.py
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> JDH
>>
>
> I don't think that is necessarily true.  If I remember correctly, Ryan May
> introduced some other API changes (I think they made it to the 1.0.x branch)
> in order to facilitate his animations.
>
> Ben Root
>
>



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