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

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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()
    Thank you very much.
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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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On 2012/10/02 8:08 AM, Jianbao Tao wrote:

Thank you very much.

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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

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@…202…> 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()
  1. Get a reference of the navigation toolbar, such as by tbar =
    fig.get_navigation_toolbar()     or better yet, just by *tbar =
fig.navtbar*
  1. 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)*.
  1. 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

4

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. :slight_smile: Good thinking Ben!