Hi everyone,
I'm developing a simple GUI tool in Matplotlib that relies on the
event framework to handle buttons/sliders. I am trying to avoid using
a GUI toolkit directly to ensure maximum compatibility for users.
One thing I would like is to be able to have a 'save' button that will
open up a standard 'save file' dialog window (but not necessarily the
plot itself). Matplotlib already has 'save file' GUI dialogs for the
different backends, so I was wondering whether there is an easy and
abstract way of asking matplotlib to open a 'save file' dialog and
capturing the output? Or is this all handled separately in the
different backends?
Thanks!
Tom
Hey Tom,
It looks like the only backend-agnostic file save function is save_figure() (a toolbar method), which conflates choosing a filename and doing the actual saving. The backend-specific code to choose a filename via a dialog isn’t uniform:
Qt4:
matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4._getSaveFileName
MacOS
matplotlib.backends.backend_osx._macosx.choose_save_file
Wx:
A bunch of code in matplotlib.backends.backend_wx.save_figure
TkAgg:
Tkinter.FileDialog
GtkAgg:
get_filechooser().get_filename_from_user()
It looks like, at a minimum, you would have to write your own wrapper code to make a backend-agnostic interface for choosing a filename. Of course, if you did that, it would also be nice to refactor that into MPL itself… 
chris
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille@…287…> wrote:
Chris Beaumont
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Harvard Center for Astrophysics
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Cambridge, MA 02138
chrisbeaumont.org
Hi everyone,
I’m developing a simple GUI tool in Matplotlib that relies on the
event framework to handle buttons/sliders. I am trying to avoid using
a GUI toolkit directly to ensure maximum compatibility for users.
One thing I would like is to be able to have a ‘save’ button that will
open up a standard ‘save file’ dialog window (but not necessarily the
plot itself). Matplotlib already has ‘save file’ GUI dialogs for the
different backends, so I was wondering whether there is an easy and
abstract way of asking matplotlib to open a ‘save file’ dialog and
capturing the output? Or is this all handled separately in the
different backends?
Thanks!
Tom
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