Explanations

• Backends
  • What is a backend?
  • Selecting a backend
  • The builtin backends
  • Using non-builtin backends
• Interactive figures
  • Interactive figures and asynchronous programming
  • Event handling and picking
  • IPython integration
  • Interactive mode
  • Default UI
  • Other Python prompts
• Fonts in Matplotlib text engine
  • Font specifications
  • Subsetting
  • What to use?
• Event handling and picking
  • Event connections
  • Event attributes
  • Mouse enter and leave
  • Object picking
• Performance
  • Line segment simplification
  • Marker simplification
  • Splitting lines into smaller chunks
  • Legends
  • Using the fast style
• Interactive figures and asynchronous programming
  • Event loops
  • Command prompt integration
  • Full embedding
  • Scripts and functions
  • Stale artists
  • Idle draw
  • Threading
  • Eventloop integration mechanism