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