Re: [Matplotlib-users] Animated plot wth GTKagg

[Arnd B. <arn...@we...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Ben Vanhaeren wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to generate an animated plot embedded in gtk. The problem I have is
> that the plot only gets drawn when the animation loop is finished instead of
> everytime the draw() function is called inside the loop. Is there any other
> way to force the plot to be redrawn ?

From your description I suspect that you have a loop in
a subroutine which does one plot after another. However,
doing it this way does not leave gtk any opportunity to
refresh the corresponding window.
In the example of a moving sine
  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/anim.py
John remarks that one has to
"""
# turn interactive mode on for dynamic updates.  If you aren't in
# interactive mode, you'll need to use a GUI event handler/timer.
"""

Maybe you can use something from the mov_sin_mpl_gtk.py example,
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6175425&forum_id=33405

I for myself haven't use embedding in gtk, so maybe someone
else has a working example...

Best,

Arnd