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Jianbao Tao

How to modify the navigation toolbar easily in a matplotlib figure window?

Is it possible to do something like the following to modify the navigation toolbar in matplotlib?

Generate a figure window, such as by *fig = figure()*
Get a reference of the navigation toolbar, such as by *tbar = fig.get_navigation_toolbar()* or better yet, just by *tbar = fig.navtbar*
Modify the toolbar through the reference tbar, such as delete/add/edit a button by something like this: *tbar.add_button()*, *tbar.remove_button(a reference to a button)*, *tbar.edit_button(a reference to a button)*.
Update the figure by *fig.canvas.draw()*

Thank you very much.

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Eric Firing

Re: How to modify the navigation toolbar easily in a matplotlib figure window?

On 2012/10/02 8:08 AM, Jianbao Tao wrote:

> Is it possible to do something like the following to modify the
> navigation toolbar in matplotlib?
>
> 1. Generate a figure window, such as by *fig = figure()*
> 2. Get a reference of the navigation toolbar, such as by *tbar =
> fig.get_navigation_toolbar()* or better yet, just by *tbar =
> fig.navtbar*
> 3. Modify the toolbar through the reference /tbar/, such as
> delete/add/edit a button by something like this:
> *tbar.add_button()*, *tbar.remove_button(a reference to a button)*,
> *tbar.edit_button(a reference to a button)*.
> 4. Update the figure by *fig.canvas.draw()*

No, this sort of flexibility has been at least on the mental wish-list
for a long time, but it is not available. It would require substantial
work on all of the gui backends.

Eric

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Benjamin Root-2

Re: How to modify the navigation toolbar easily in a matplotlib figure window?

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Eric Firing <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 2012/10/02 8:08 AM, Jianbao Tao wrote:
> Is it possible to do something like the following to modify the
> navigation toolbar in matplotlib?
>

> 1. Generate a figure window, such as by *fig = figure()*
> 2. Get a reference of the navigation toolbar, such as by *tbar =

> fig.get_navigation_toolbar()* or better yet, just by *tbar =
> fig.navtbar*

> 3. Modify the toolbar through the reference /tbar/, such as

> delete/add/edit a button by something like this:
> *tbar.add_button()*, *tbar.remove_button(a reference to a button)*,
> *tbar.edit_button(a reference to a button)*.

> 4. Update the figure by *fig.canvas.draw()*

No, this sort of flexibility has been at least on the mental wish-list
for a long time, but it is not available. It would require substantial
work on all of the gui backends.

Eric

Note, however, code has been improved for the 1.2.0 release to make it easier to modify the set of buttons that are used. In backend_bases.py, look for the NavigationToolbar2 class.

Cheers!
Ben Root

Phil Elson-2

Re: How to modify the navigation toolbar easily in a matplotlib figure window?

> Note, however, code has been improved for the 1.2.0 release to make it easier to modify the set of buttons that are used. In backend_bases.py, look for the NavigationToolbar2 class.

Ah yes! I knew I did that for a good reason. :-) Good thinking Ben!

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