Re: [Matplotlib-users] generating multiple graphs on demand

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

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Soulier <mso...@gm...> writes:

    Michael> Hello, I'm writing an app that requires a gui interface
    Michael> that will generate graphs on demand. When one top-level
    Michael> window containing a new graph is created, it should not
    Michael> block the application from making new ones if the user
    Michael> requests one.

    Michael> I can do this myself but I like matplotlib. How could I
    Michael> do this? So far it seems that my app blocks on the show()
    Michael> call, and if I try to make a new graph after that, the
    Michael> whole application locks up and has to be killed.

Don't use the pylab interface when building moderately complex
applications -- use the OO library instead.  What GUI toolkit are you
using to build your app?  See embedding_in_*.py, in the examples
directory, where * is the name of your GUI toolkit, eg, tk, gtk, wx
etc.

See also http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#OO

Hope this helps,
JDH