Re: [matplotlib-devel] Another try at interactive gui thread

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

Baptiste Carvello wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just making a proposal. As long as the documentation points to 
> IPython for interactive use, you can't say we have a perfect solution on 
> our own :-) (this is not meant to criticize your work on IPython, it's 
> just that I feel more confortable with the usual python interface)
> 
> I know the patch is intrusive, though maybe not as much as it looks 
> (everything except protect_mutex.py is pretty trivial). I didn't 
> expected it to be accepted right away, I see it more as a contribution 
> to the whole gui thread discution.
> 
> As for gui_thread, I looked at it last year, I just remember I didn't 
> like that code that much. Maybe I should get another look...

I actually didn't have ipython in mind at all in my comment.  I agree that a 
generic, shell-independent solution is a good thing to have.  I just think 
that gui_thread provides a cleaner approach (if not clean code :) to the 
overall problem.  gui_thread is messy, but it allows general (meaning, beyond 
matplotlib) access to gui elements from a command line.  I quickly tested it 
with matplotlib and it crashed, so there's work to be done...

I was just trying to point out an alternate direction, ultimately if John is 
happy with this approach, it's his call (he gets to maintain it :)

Cheers,

f