René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"protecting figure with matplotlib widgets","articleBody":"Ubuntu Linux 10.04, matplotlib version: 0.99.1.1, backend GtkAgg;\nprobably the same in all later versions\n\nThere seems to be no way of protecting a GUI-only figure containing\nmatplotlib widgets.  If this figure becomes active, any pyplot command\nwill draw over the widgets.  As an example, this happens in the built-in\nsubplot_tool function where the plot command draws into the Reset box:\n\n```\n$ ipython -pylab\nIn [1]: subplot_tool()\n# click any slider\nIn [2]: plot(range(2))\n```\n\nMATLAB deals with this issue by having a HandleVisibility and IntegerHandle\nproperties, which prevent a GUI figure from becoming the active one and protect\nit from accidental changes.  It would be surely useful to have some similar\noption of protecting GUI figures in matplotlib.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pavoljuhas","@type":"Person","name":"pavoljuhas"},"datePublished":"2012-07-02T22:33:08.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/984/matplotlib/issues/984"}