Re: [Matplotlib-users] Interactive gtk console. Fixed (I think)

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:


    >> push = self.shell.push # Code to execute in user's namespace
    >> lines = ["import matplotlib",
    ---> "matplotlib.use('GTKAgg')",
    >> "matplotlib.interactive(1)", "import matplotlib.matlab as
    >> matlab", "from matplotlib.matlab import *"] You might make the
    >> additional caveat in the docs about honoring rc settings that
    >> the default backend is overridden.

    Fernando> Well, actually I think we should honor the user's rc
    Fernando> choice, don't you?  In fact, the ipython version does
    Fernando> this, so the equivalent here would be just to comment
    Fernando> out the line you highlighted.

Yes, and along those lines for the GTK shell, we should use
rcParams['backend'] to detect GTK versus GTKAgg and use whichever is
in the rc file in the call to matplotlib.use.


    Fernando> Cool.  I'll integrate Antoon's and your fixes into the
    Fernando> 'real' (read ipython-based) code, and we'll play with
    Fernando> that a bit.  Do you foresee any problems with the WX
    Fernando> backend?  Right now I have global pygtk calls, but I
    Fernando> suppose those should be done only by the matplotlib
    Fernando> shell class IF Gtk is the chosen backend.  

Relocating the pygtk calls into the backend dependent section sounds
good.  As for problems with wx, I can't really say until we try.

Thanks!
JDH