[Matplotlib-users] Event connect error when using Tk and scrolling

[Juan Nunez-Iglesias]

Hi all,

I’m trying to play with the `basic_mpl_connect.py` example from Ben Root’s “Interactive Applications Using Matplotlib” book, reproduced below in its entirety. (With the addition of selecting TkAgg as the backend. I need to do this because I’m aiming to embed into a Tk app *and* the MacOSX backend doesn’t capture my keystrokes.)

Everything works fine, but when I try to use the scroll wheel on my mouse, or two-finger scrolling on my Macbook trackpad, everything dies with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "basic_mpl_connect.py", line 20, in <module>
    plt.show()
  File "/Users/jni/conda/envs/ana/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 252, in show
    return _show(*args, **kw)
  File "/Users/jni/conda/envs/ana/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 192, in __call__
    self.mainloop()
  File "/Users/jni/conda/envs/ana/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 74, in mainloop
    Tk.mainloop()
  File "/Users/jni/conda/envs/ana/lib/python3.5/tkinter/__init__.py", line 405, in mainloop
    _default_root.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

This is true even if I explicitly connect the “scroll_event” (below).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Juan.

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import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
matplotlib.verbose.level = 'debug'
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def process_key(event):
    print("Key:", event.key)

def process_button(event):
    print("Button:", event.x, event.y, event.xdata, event.ydata, event.button)

def process_scroll(event):
    print("Scroll")

fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('key_press_event', process_key)
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', process_button)
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('scroll_event', process_scroll)
plt.show()
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