[matplotlib-devel] chicken/egg (or figure/canvas) question

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

I thought I had this understood, but now I am confused while working on my
last chapter. I know that the Figure object never directly creates its own
canvas object. It starts off with a None object as a placeholder and waits
for one to be given to it. However, I can only find one place where the
figure object's set_canvas() method is called, and that is in the canvas's
print_figure() method to restore itself as the figure's canvas after
temporaraily switching to another backend for saving.

I thought that the FigureManager initializes the primary canvas object, but
that doesn't seem to be the case. Where is it done?

Cheers!
Ben Root