Matplotlib's GUI doesn't allow typing in save box?

Question

I've been using matplotlib in python for some time now and I've finally gotten around to asking this question about an issue on my mac. When a plot shows up (after the plot() command, draw(), or show()), I have all the functionality I could want; I can move, zoom, etc. that I didn't do in the code.

When I go to save a figure with the view as I desire the save as box opens up and prompts for a filename. Anything I type appears in the terminal I used to execute the command! Selecting X11 and then typing has same result. Nothing seems to put the keyboards output into that box, but I can paste into the box using the mouse->Paste action and I can select files in the menu to overwrite and it works fine.

What's up with this?

Answer 1

Just installed matplotlib 0.99.1 on Python 2.6.2 on Snow Leopard and ran the following code:

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

Then, I fiddled around with the plot for a while and clicked the save button. The save dialog box popped up normally and allowed me to save (and type) fine. This was using the TkAgg backend. However, I did get this error:

2009-12-08 00:40:18.772 Python[728:60f] -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeMagnify.  Please use -magnification.

Which seems to be something to do with Snow Leopard changing some APIs.

Sorry for using typing this as a post instead of a comment, but code tags aren't allowed in comments :(