I am trying to update the data in a matplotlib imshow window within a Tkinter gui, an example of my code is as follows:
#minimal example...
import matplotlib, sys
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg
from matplotlib import pylab as plt
from scipy import ndimage
if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
import Tkinter as Tk
else:
import tkinter as Tk
root = Tk.Tk()
root.wm_title("minimal example")
image = plt.imread('test.jpg')
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5,4))
im = plt.imshow(image) # later use a.set_data(new_data)
ax = plt.gca()
ax.set_xticklabels([])
ax.set_yticklabels([])
# a tk.DrawingArea
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, master=root)
canvas.show()
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=Tk.TOP, fill=Tk.BOTH, expand=1)
def rotate(*args):
print 'rotate button press...'
theta = 90
rotated = ndimage.rotate(image, theta)
im.set_data(rotated)
root.update()
def quit(*args):
print 'quit button press...'
root.quit()
root.destroy()
button_rotate = Tk.Button(master = root, text = 'Rotate', command = rotate)
button_quit = Tk.Button(master = root, text = 'Quit', command = quit)
button_quit.pack(side=Tk.LEFT)
button_rotate.pack()
Tk.mainloop()
As you can see, I load an image using imshow(), and then try updating the image's data using set_data(), and then want to update the root window of the gui using root.update(). When executed, the print 'rotate button press...' line is executed, but the rest is seemingly not. Do I need to pass the image handle to the rotate function some how, or return the rotated image?