Re: [matplotlib-devel] Test invitation: activate figure windows for non-interactive macosx backend

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

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