Re: [Matplotlib-users] Create a figure window without navigation toolbar

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Jianbao Tao <jia...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know one can make a figure window without toolbar by doing
> mpl.rcParams['toolbar'] = 'None'
>
> However, this approach is kind of annoying if one just wants to remove the
> toolbar for one figure window and to keep the default behavior to be with a
> toolbar. So, I am wondering if it is possible to do something like:
> fig = figure(toolbar=False) # Create a new figure window with no toolbar.
>
> If it is not possible now, I am wondering if the matplotlib team has any
> intention to implement that feature. I would think it is not hard to do so,
> since it is so easy to achieve that goal by setting a parameter. But I
> could very much be wrong, as I know nothing about how things work under the
> hood for matplotlib.
>
> Anyway, I am mostly just curious, since I have already got a workaround
> for that. But it would be nice to know other's people's approaches/ideas.
> :-)
>
> Thank you very much.
>

Actually, such a feature shouldn't be too difficult to add.  Why don't you
make a feature request for it on github and you might see it added for v1.3.

Cheers!
Ben Root