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Donnie
Donnie

Reputation: 67

How to disable the close button in matplotlib

I used matplotlib to create a graphics window, but I do not want the user to manually close it. Is there a way to disable the closing button in the upper right corner? See screenshot

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2156

Answers (1)

ImportanceOfBeingErnest
ImportanceOfBeingErnest

Reputation: 339340

The solution will depend on the backend in use.

PyQt

For the PyQt backend, you can do the following:

import matplotlib
# make sure Qt backend is used
matplotlib.use("Qt4Agg")
from PyQt4 import QtCore  
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# create a figure and some subplots
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4,2))
ax.plot([2,3,5,1])
fig.tight_layout()

win = plt.gcf().canvas.manager.window
win.setWindowFlags(win.windowFlags() | QtCore.Qt.CustomizeWindowHint)
win.setWindowFlags(win.windowFlags() & ~QtCore.Qt.WindowCloseButtonHint)
plt.show()

This will disable the close button (not hide it).

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Tk

I'm not sure if Tk is able to control the close button. But what is possible is to draw a completely frameless window.

import matplotlib
# make sure Tk backend is used
matplotlib.use("TkAgg")  
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# create a figure and some subplots
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(4,2))
ax.plot([2,3,5,1])
fig.tight_layout()

win = plt.gcf().canvas.manager.window
win.overrideredirect(1) # draws a completely frameless window

plt.show()

Upvotes: 3

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