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From: Chris B. <bea...@ha...> - 2014-06-20 13:42:17
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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 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Thomas Robitaille < tho...@gm...> wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. > Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > -- > ************************************* > Chris Beaumont > Senior Software Engineer > Harvard Center for Astrophysics > 60 Garden Street, MS 42 > Cambridge, MA 02138 > chrisbeaumont.org > ************************************* > |