Viewers don't inline well in IPython notebook

[guyer]

The [http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html IPython notebook ] is capable of inline display of Matplotlib figures via

ipython notebook --pylab inine

and FiPy viewers do appear when instantiated, but subsequent calls to viewer.plot() don't do anything useful.

It would be nice if there were a way to visualize, or even animate, the viewers within the notebook.

Imported from trac ticket #494, created by guyer on 01-29-2013 at 15:45, last modified: 01-30-2013 at 11:00

[guyer]

The basic mechanism is explained at http://stackoverflow.com/a/12389435/2019542 and a FiPy user already came up with their own implementation.

Trac comment by guyer on 01-29-2013 at 15:57

[guyer]

With the following pull request, it is possible to do

from IPython.display import clear_output
  :
  :
vw = fp.Viewer(vars=var)

for step in range(steps):
:
clear_output()
display(vw) 

Note: it is necessary to do display(vw) instead of vw.plot().

The following changes since commit 3b11fbbc097e9d023e64a61f465f07747940b96a:

  Merge branch 'ticket475-getVersion_fails_on_Py3k' into develop (2013-01-29 10:43:51 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:


  ssh://git@code.matforge.org/nist/fipy.git ticket494-Viewers_dont_inline_well_in_IPython_notebook

for you to fetch changes up to 50dd6adac5279eff89ae9c09efffcb0be7543c79:

  documentation (2013-01-29 15:53:28 -0500)

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Jonathan Guyer (2):
Allow `MatplotlibViewer` to `display()` in IPython
documentation

 fipy/viewers/matplotlibViewer/matplotlibViewer.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Trac comment by guyer on 01-29-2013 at 16:03

[wd15]

Seems to work for me. Merged with 755bbc2

Trac comment by wd15 on 01-30-2013 at 11:00

[lucentdan]

Adding wait=True to clear_output() makes it cleaner.