gtkagg backend - update behavior question

Hi everyone,

I am a new matplotlib user building a simple visualization tool.

I
was having some issues with the graph not redrawing and I think I have
reduced it to a minimal case that doesn’t work as expected for me.

In the example below one of the data elements is changed on every
iteration of the update function, but the graph does not update as
expected.

Am I making a mistake in my usage?

Alastair

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk
import gobject
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import numpy as np

from matplotlib.backends.backend_

gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas

def update(line):
global data
data[20]=data[20]+0.5
line.set_ydata(data)
line.axes.figure.canvas.draw()
return True

win = gtk.Window()
win.connect(“destroy”, lambda x: x.destroy())

win.set_default_size(400,300)
fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
win.add(canvas)

data = np.random.randn(100)
line, = ax.plot(data)

win.show_all()

gobject.timeout_add(1000,update,line)

gtk.main()

Hi Alastair,

I don't have clue why yours doesn't work.

however I changed the following line in the update function
data[20]=data[20]+0.5

to
data = np.random.randn(100)

And it started updating the display, with new data each update.
maybe changing a single point is not seen as a big enough change?

Steve

Alastair McKinley wrote:

···

Hi everyone,

I am a new matplotlib user building a simple visualization tool.

I was having some issues with the graph not redrawing and I think I have reduced it to a minimal case that doesn't work as expected for me.

In the example below one of the data elements is changed on every iteration of the update function, but the graph does not update as expected.

Am I making a mistake in my usage?

Alastair

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk
import gobject
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import numpy as np

from matplotlib.backends.backend_
gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas

def update(line):
    global data
    data[20]=data[20]+0.5
    line.set_ydata(data)
    line.axes.figure.canvas.draw()
    return True

win = gtk.Window()
win.connect("destroy", lambda x: x.destroy())
win.set_default_size(400,300)
fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
win.add(canvas)

data = np.random.randn(100)
line, = ax.plot(data)

win.show_all()

gobject.timeout_add(1000,update,line)

gtk.main()
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe this thread is helpful.

http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-simple-use-of-draw()-in-animations-of-arrays-tt26174627.html#a26175190

I guess your code will work simply by calling "recache()" instead of set_ydata.

Regards,

-JJ

···

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Alastair McKinley <amckinley03+mplib@...982...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am a new matplotlib user building a simple visualization tool.

I was having some issues with the graph not redrawing and I think I have
reduced it to a minimal case that doesn't work as expected for me.

In the example below one of the data elements is changed on every iteration
of the update function, but the graph does not update as expected.

Am I making a mistake in my usage?

Alastair

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk
import gobject
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import numpy as np

from matplotlib.backends.backend_
gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas

def update(line):
global data
data[20]=data[20]+0.5
line.set_ydata(data)
line.axes.figure.canvas.draw()
return True

win = gtk.Window()
win.connect("destroy", lambda x: x.destroy())
win.set_default_size(400,300)
fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
win.add(canvas)

data = np.random.randn(100)
line, = ax.plot(data)

win.show_all()

gobject.timeout_add(1000,update,line)

gtk.main()

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Hi JJ,

Thanks very much that was exactly the right solution!

Best regards,

Alastair

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On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.joon@…287…> wrote:

Maybe this thread is helpful.

http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-simple-use-of-draw%28%29-in-animations-of-arrays-tt26174627.html#a26175190

I guess your code will work simply by calling “recache()” instead of set_ydata.

Regards,

-JJ

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Alastair McKinley > > <amckinley03+mplib@…1762…82…> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am a new matplotlib user building a simple visualization tool.

I was having some issues with the graph not redrawing and I think I have

reduced it to a minimal case that doesn’t work as expected for me.

In the example below one of the data elements is changed on every iteration

of the update function, but the graph does not update as expected.

Am I making a mistake in my usage?

Alastair

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk

import gobject

from matplotlib.figure import Figure

import numpy as np

from matplotlib.backends.backend_

gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas

def update(line):

global data
data[20]=data[20]+0.5
line.set_ydata(data)
line.axes.figure.canvas.draw()
return True

win = gtk.Window()

win.connect(“destroy”, lambda x: x.destroy())

win.set_default_size(400,300)

fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)

win.add(canvas)

data = np.random.randn(100)

line, = ax.plot(data)

win.show_all()

gobject.timeout_add(1000,update,line)

gtk.main()


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