Re: [Matplotlib-users] TkAgg in a Tkinter GUI frame?

[Todd M. <jm...@st...>]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:29, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Pajer <pa...@in...> writes:
> 
>     Gary> I've been poking aroung a bit trying to see if I can locate
>     Gary> my plots in a frame in my own Tkinter GUI rather than a
>     Gary> stand-alone window.
> 
>     Gary> It looks like it might be possible if I can, for example,
>     Gary> extract the frame instance from a TkAgg plot (or something
>     Gary> like that)
> 
>     Gary> Can anyone comment or suggest a route?
> 

First an apology.  I didn't see this until late yesterday when Perry
alerted me.  I wasn't subscribed to matplotlib-users.

> Todd, is this easily doable?  

Frankly, I'm not sure.  I'll try to work it out this afternoon.  I
imagine if it's possible in GTK it's possible in Tk.

> Could you write an embedding_in_tk.py
> example along the lines of embedding_in_gtk and embedding_in_wx?

I'll try and let you know.

> 
> The FigureCanvas derived instance in backend_* is meant to be a widget
> you could plug into a GUI, but I notice you took a different tack in
> backend_tkagg.  The idea behind this is that users may want to embed a
> figure as part of a GUI window, eg in a widget container, without
> necessarily bringing the toolbar along or using the whole window.
> Would this be an easy refactoring of backend_tkagg?

We'll see.

Regards,
Todd

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Todd Miller <jm...@st...>