Adding Navigation Toolbar to the Figure (matplotlib and PyQt4)

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I would like to create a navigation Toolbar in my PyQt4 GUI but I can't make it work, I must admit that I mostly copy-pasted this code and I don't really get it. Would be great if you could tell me how to add the NavigationToolbar and explain how it was made. Thank you in advance.

Btw. I have seen This Post but I believe it's different from mine and I can't figure out how to use it.

from PyQt4 import QtGui
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas

from matplotlib.figure import Figure

class MplCanvas(FigureCanvas):

    def __init__( self ):
        self.fig = Figure()
        self.ax = self.fig.add_subplot( 111 )

        FigureCanvas.__init__( self, self.fig )
        FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy( self, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding,QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding )
        FigureCanvas.updateGeometry( self )


class matplotlibWidget(QtGui.QWidget):

    def __init__( self, parent = None ):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__( self, parent )
        self.canvas = MplCanvas()
        #self.toolbar = self.canvas.toolbar #Dunno How :(

        self.vbl = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.vbl.addWidget( self.canvas )
        self.setLayout( self.vbl )

Zwierzak · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-25 15:48:31Z

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I managed to solve the problem, the code should look like this

from PyQt4 import QtGui
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4 import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar
from matplotlib.figure import Figure

class MplCanvas(FigureCanvas):

    def __init__( self ):
        self.fig = Figure()
        self.ax = self.fig.add_subplot( 111 )

        FigureCanvas.__init__( self, self.fig )
        FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy( self, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding,QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding )
        FigureCanvas.updateGeometry( self )


class matplotlibWidget(QtGui.QWidget):

    def __init__( self, parent = None ):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__( self, parent )
        self.canvas = MplCanvas() #create canvas that will hold our plot
        self.navi_toolbar = NavigationToolbar(self.canvas, self) #createa navigation toolbar for our plot canvas

        self.vbl = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.vbl.addWidget( self.canvas )
        self.vbl.addWidget(self.navi_toolbar)
        self.setLayout( self.vbl )

answered May 25, 2015 at 15:48

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Guimoute Over a year ago

I am wondering if there is a way to declare the NavigationToolbar in the canvas class declaration, not in the widget/ui one. Typically my ui files are generated automatically from QtDesigner then I just have to import them in the main program and build the logic around them, so ideally nothing like .addWidget should appear in that program.

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