From a7a84bbcde86d246b717446b71ade224960941eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steven.silvester@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:14:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Draw the canvas when creating the ax to avoid RuntimeError

---
 skimage/viewer/utils/core.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/skimage/viewer/utils/core.py b/skimage/viewer/utils/core.py
index 8aca4e24..242f2de4 100644
--- a/skimage/viewer/utils/core.py
+++ b/skimage/viewer/utils/core.py
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ def figimage(image, scale=1, dpi=None, **kwargs):
 
     ax.set_axis_off()
     ax.imshow(image, **kwargs)
+    ax.figure.canvas.draw()
     return fig, ax