# Interactive ABM plot with agents and GLMakie
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** agents, glmakie
**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913 "2023-05-16T07:59:55Z")
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### Author:  [@sea\_slug](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sea_slug)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913/1 "2023-05-16T07:59:56Z")
I am trying to produce an interactive plot of an agent based model using `GLMakie`. I Have done this before no problem (a few months ago), but now when I run the code it just produces a static plot in VSCode.
I have been trying to get it working using the [wolf-sheep tutorial](https://juliadynamics.github.io/Agents.jl/stable/examples/predator_prey/) but no joy… before spending excessive time trying to figure out the issue I thought I’d ask here in case something has changed recently that I have missed?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913/2 "2023-05-16T08:00:56Z")
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> In the most recent update (GLMakie 0.8.5 on Julia version 0.9.0) GLMakie no long…er opens a separate window when executing from a file in Visual Studio Code (Julia extension also on the latest version). Instead, plots open in a new tab in VS Code, like CairoMakie. I tested with a new environment with only GLMakie installed and generating a blank \`Figure()\`. I'm not sure if it's a Makie or VSC problem.
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### Author:  [@sea\_slug](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sea_slug)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913/3 "2023-05-16T21:32:42Z")
Thanks @sdanisch , great package!
For anyone else, from the GitHub issues page @sdanisch linked. You just need to do the following to get the separate interactive plotting window: `GLMakie.activate!(inline=false)`.
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### Author:  [@PaoloBova](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PaoloBova)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interactive-abm-plot-with-agents-and-glmakie/98913/4 "2023-12-17T11:26:19Z")
The solution above didn’t work for me on its own. I also needed to call `display` on the created figure before the interactive plotting window would appear (I was using vscode on Linux Ubuntu 22.04).