Hi,
I am writting an application in which I update dynamically the state of the figures. When I am done I call the Figure.canvas.draw function to redraw the figure. However, when the window was previously closed by the user the update can be skipped.
Is there a way to tell from a figure handle if the figure is shown on screen or not?
Currently, I solve this problem with a callback which sets the figure handle to None on figure close event. However, I guess there might be a more direct way of doing that. What would you suggest?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Bartosz
Bartosz Telenczuk, on 2011-02-13 23:16, wrote:
Hi,
I am writting an application in which I update dynamically the state
of the figures. When I am done I call the Figure.canvas.draw function
to redraw the figure. However, when the window was previously closed
by the user the update can be skipped.
Is there a way to tell from a figure handle if the figure is shown on
screen or not?
Currently, I solve this problem with a callback which sets the figure
handle to None on figure close event. However, I guess there might be
a more direct way of doing that. What would you suggest?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Hi Bartosz,
I don't think there's currently a backend independent way of
doing it outside of the approach you have taken.
Having a quick look using f = plt.gcf() before and after closing
the figure, with a WX backend, the f.canvas object changes
to an instance of <class 'wx._core._wxPyDeadObject'>, and loses
all of its usual methods. For GTK - looks like f.canvas.window
gets set to None.
So if you're only targeting one backend, there might be some
simple way like this to find out if a figure is being shown using
from the figure handle.
best,
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