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Michael Berry
Michael Berry

Reputation: 1003

Saving interactive series on matplotlib figures (html)

I have an example (from matplotlib) for an interactive plot where I can select from the series which lines I want to display on the plot. This works perfectly but now I want to export this to an html. I can successfully do this with mpld3.save_html() but lose the interactivity on the series selection. Here's the code

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, mpld3
from matplotlib.widgets import CheckButtons

t = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s0 = np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
s1 = np.sin(4*np.pi*t)
s2 = np.sin(6*np.pi*t)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
l0, = ax.plot(t, s0, visible=False, lw=2)
l1, = ax.plot(t, s1, lw=2)
l2, = ax.plot(t, s2, lw=2)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.2)

rax = plt.axes([0.05, 0.4, 0.1, 0.15])
check = CheckButtons(rax, ('2 Hz', '4 Hz', '6 Hz'), (False, True, True))

def func(label):
    if label == '2 Hz': l0.set_visible(not l0.get_visible())
    elif label == '4 Hz': l1.set_visible(not l1.get_visible())
    elif label == '6 Hz': l2.set_visible(not l2.get_visible())
    plt.draw()
check.on_clicked(func)

mpld3.save_html(fig, 'interactive_fig.html') #save to html here
plt.show()

Is there a way to maintain this interactivity???

I have also tried saving with pickle but still lose the series interaction.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 15082

Answers (1)

Abraham D Flaxman
Abraham D Flaxman

Reputation: 2979

It is not possible to maintain the matplotlib.widget interactivity in an html file generated by mpld3. This is because the javascript generated by mpld3 runs client-side and cannot access the Python kernel that generated it.

You can achieve something like the matplotlib interactivity in an html version using the Static Interactive Widgets for IPython Notebooks approach.

Upvotes: 8

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