Tyler throws error when using CairoMakie

When using CairoMakie I get this error

ERROR: please load either GLMakie, WGLMakie or CairoMakie
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(s::String)
   @ Base ./error.jl:35
 [2] Tyler.Map(rect::GeometryBasics.HyperRectangle{2, Float32}, zoom::Int64, input_cs::MapTiles.WGS84; figure::Figure, coordinate_system::MapTiles.WebMercator, provider::Provider, min_tiles::Int64, max_tiles::Int64, max_parallel_downloads::Int64, cache_size_gb::Int64)
   @ Tyler ~/.julia/packages/Tyler/eajCg/src/Tyler.jl:79
 [3] top-level scope
   @ ~/Documents/GitHub/Altim.jl/src/geolocate_dev.jl:88

I suspect that Tyler only works with GLMakie ?

If that's the case the the Error message needs updating.

Uh, it's a bit unfortunate, but, yeah cairomakie doesn't work right now, but should be easy to fix...
WGLMakie definitely works though!

Why exactly does Tyler require access to the screen? Is it just to know when not to run the download task?

Latest release doesn't require a window open. However, cairomakie is still failing, somehow...

Ah, I forgot that Tyler can't work with CairoMakie as long as it plots meshes, because Cairo's mesh handling only interpolates colors between vertices (it can't handle UVs).

Since Tyler has switched to image plots for web mercator axes, and meshimage for GeoAxis, it should work pretty smoothly with CairoMakie now. One last issue to iron out is MakieOrg/Makie.jl#4694. But otherwise you do not need a GL backend at all for Tyler.

On notebooks (in this case Quarto), any hints on how to avoid the double display figure? Also, this works now, we should close this issue.

I thought i did remove the double display in the update for Makie@0.24:
https://github.com/MakieOrg/Tyler.jl/blob/master/src/map.jl#L260-L293

Only if it has been displayed before

Tyler.jl/src/map.jl

Line 275 in 2f38832

screen = display(m.figure.scene)

I only observe this with this sequence (and again, this is in Quarto, I haven't checked on Jupyter notebooks):

using CairoMakie
CairoMakie.activate!()
# For maps
using Tyler
using Tyler.TileProviders

# london
provider = Tyler.TileProviders.Esri(:WorldImagery)
london = Rect2f(-0.0921, 51.5, 0.04, 0.025)

with_theme(theme_dark()) do
    fig = Figure(; size =(650,400))
    ax = Axis(fig[1,1]) # aspect = DataAspect()
    m = Tyler.Map(london; provider, figure=fig, axis=ax)
    wait(m)
    hidedecorations!(ax)
    hidespines!(ax)
    fig
end

Ah yeah. If you return the map from there you might be OK and don't call wait on the map? Not sure if that will help.

no, even without the wait, we still show 2 plots.

ah that is unfortunate. Then it's probably tied to the architecture that the tyler process keeps running only if there is an active screen...

however, the following gives me what I want, only one plot 😄, passing that new axis seems to be the issue 🤔

with_theme(theme_dark()) do
  m=Tyler.Map(london; provider, figure=Figure(; size=(650,400)))
  m.axis.aspect=650/400
  hidedecorations!(m.axis)
  hidespines!(m.axis)
  m
end

note: an extra image is displayed on my screen, but not capture in the notebook, the notebook only contains the last one.

Tyler now produces empty map with CairoMakie

using CairoMakie 
using Tyler

tyler = Tyler.Map(Rect2f(-0.0921, 51.5, 0.04, 0.025))

vs.

using GLMakie
tyler = Tyler.Map(Rect2f(-0.0921, 51.5, 0.04, 0.025))

I'm guessing its not waiting correctly to load all tiles

It still does not work for me. It would be amazing to have CairoMakie support!

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