spawning plots as separate processes

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Bill,

The problem is I am writing a bunch of diagonistic tools for users who do not know anything about unix.
they just want to type a bunch of commands on a shell and see the plots and they hardly know anything fancy like sending processes to the background :slight_smile:

I guess, I am going to have to use threads or sub processes to spawn new plots.

Thanks,
ss

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On 6/13/07, Bill Baxter < wbaxter@…287…> wrote:

On 6/13/07, signal seeker <seekersignal@…287…> wrote:

Bill,

Thanks for your reply. pylab(ion) is not what I meant. Consider this simply

script -
…

simple.py

from pylab import *
plot([1,2,3])
show()
…

Now, if I do python simple.py on a cmd prompt, this will open up a plot

window, but the script won’t return until the plot window is closed.
I would like simple.py process to end but the plot window to be still up. I
have users who would like to type one command after another and not have to

close any of the plot windows created.

I see. In that case, I think you just want
$ simple.py &
on unix and
c:> start python simple.py
on Windows.

In both cases you can put those commands into a script so the user

just types ‘run_simple’.

–bb

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signal seeker wrote:

Bill,

The problem is I am writing a bunch of diagonistic tools for users who
do not know anything about unix.
they just want to type a bunch of commands on a shell and see the plots
and they hardly know anything fancy like sending processes to the
background :slight_smile:

I guess, I am going to have to use threads or sub processes to spawn new
plots.

That's exactly what Bill's ezplot is supposed to do. I am sure that he
will appreciate any helping making it easier to just work without the
user having to know or do anything. (I know I will.)