Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pause/waitforbuttonpress behavior.

Wow... changing to TkAgg backend makes raw_input() just work.  I
suppose this is because the Tk thread does not need the GIL to render?
 Is there a downside to using TkAgg?  I am also noticing that it is
much faster than GtkAgg.

Jon.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Taylor
<jon...@ut...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking to have ipython pause to show me a figure and wait for me
> to press a key before it updates the figure.  I see that raw_input()
> does not let the figure update presumably because it blocks the gui
> thread.  On the other hand, pylab.waitforbuttonpress works but only
> takes keys that were sent to the gui.  I would love to be able to
> press enter or something on the ipython command prompt to allow the
> script to continue.  Is this possible?
>
> I was thinking that it might be possible to use timeouts to keep
> switching between the window and the console looking for input.  Any
> ideas here?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan.
>