ginput in pylab

Nadia pursued blocking calls for a while and I think she made some
progress. You are right about this model fitting the brain of
physicists better than a callback approach. Maybe Nadia can bring us
up to speed on where she left off.

JDH

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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:21:20AM -0600, John Hunter wrote:

    >> blocking calls in pylab with gtk threading may be possible but
    >> it is beyond my powers. I would write this with a callback, eg
    >> create a class that takes a callback in the constructor and
    >> calls the callback after n clicks with a list of n coords.

    > Yes this is the right way of doing this (I have been
    > experimenting a bit yesterday). However have a blocking call
    > would be really nice for casual programmers, like so many
    > physicists, who have no idea what eventloops and threads
    > are.

    > I think that for such a blocking call to work, all we would
    > need is a way to start and stop the eventloop (I am talking
    > in wx terms, the only GUI toolkit I know). That way when a
    > script call ginput the ginput call adds a few callbacks to
    > the canvas (that's the easy part) and starts the
    > eventloop. The callbacks stop the eventloop when the right
    > number of points as been acquired.

    > Now I have no clue if this is possible, but that would
    > certainly make writing small interactive scripts much
    > easier.