Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set Figure's position

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

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:49 -0600, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Glaser <eg...@se...> writes:
> 
>     Eli> Hello, Is there an easy way to set the initial position of a
>     Eli> Figure?  I'm using Windows XP and new figures seem to pop up
>     Eli> in the typical Windows fashion where subsequent figures
>     Eli> appear about 20 pixels down and 20 pixels to the right of
>     Eli> previous figures.  How can I tell each figure where to pop up
>     Eli> on screen?
> 
> matplotlib doesn't provide explicit support for this, but it is
> possible.  What backend are you using.  The matplotlib Figure is
> embedded in a FigureCanvas which is typically a GUI widget embedded in
> a GUI Window.  In the pylab interface, the canvas is managed by a
> FigureManager, which has a window attribute on most of the backends.
> 
> Eg for the GTK backend, for example, you could do
> 
>     from pylab import *
> 
>     import gtk
> 
>     figure(1)
>     plot([1,2,3])
>     manager = get_current_fig_manager()
> 
>     # see gtk.Window class docs at
>     # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
>     manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
> 
>     figure(2)
>     plot([1,2,3])
>     manager = get_current_fig_manager()
> 
>     # see gtk.Window class docs at
>     # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
>     manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_NONE)
> 
>     show()
> 
> For the WX* backend, manager.window is a wxFrame -
> http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_wxframe.html#wxframe
> 
> For the TkAgg backend, manager.window is a Tkinter.Tk instance -
> http://starship.python.net/crew/fredrik/tkclass/ClassToplevel.html
>
> Off the top of my head I don't know the right incantation for each
> backend, but hopefully the classdocs I referenced above will help.
> Perhaps Todd or Matthew can chime in with more Tk and WX information.

In TkAgg it works like this:

get_current_fig_manager().window.wm_geometry("+200+300")

To set the window position to X=200, Y=300.

Todd