I wrote a simple wrapper for matplotlib that does something like you're describing. You need pyqt5 for it to work though.
Here is the code, you build a plotWindow object and feed it figure handles. It'll create a new tab for each figure.
import matplotlib
# prevent NoneType error for versions of matplotlib 3.1.0rc1+ by calling matplotlib.use()
# For more on why it's nececessary, see
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59656632/using-qt5agg-backend-with-matplotlib-3-1-2-get-backend-changes-behavior
matplotlib.use('qt5agg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QWidget, QTabWidget, QVBoxLayout
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sys
class plotWindow():
def __init__(self, parent=None):
self.app = QApplication(sys.argv)
self.MainWindow = QMainWindow()
self.MainWindow.__init__()
self.MainWindow.setWindowTitle("plot window")
self.canvases = []
self.figure_handles = []
self.toolbar_handles = []
self.tab_handles = []
self.current_window = -1
self.tabs = QTabWidget()
self.MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.tabs)
self.MainWindow.resize(1280, 900)
self.MainWindow.show()
def addPlot(self, title, figure):
new_tab = QWidget()
layout = QVBoxLayout()
new_tab.setLayout(layout)
figure.subplots_adjust(left=0.05, right=0.99, bottom=0.05, top=0.91, wspace=0.2, hspace=0.2)
new_canvas = FigureCanvas(figure)
new_toolbar = NavigationToolbar(new_canvas, new_tab)
layout.addWidget(new_canvas)
layout.addWidget(new_toolbar)
self.tabs.addTab(new_tab, title)
self.toolbar_handles.append(new_toolbar)
self.canvases.append(new_canvas)
self.figure_handles.append(figure)
self.tab_handles.append(new_tab)
def show(self):
self.app.exec_()
if __name__ == '__main__':
import numpy as np
pw = plotWindow()
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.001)
f = plt.figure()
ysin = np.sin(x)
plt.plot(x, ysin, '--')
pw.addPlot("sin", f)
f = plt.figure()
ycos = np.cos(x)
plt.plot(x, ycos, '--')
pw.addPlot("cos", f)
pw.show()
This is also posted at: https://github.com/superjax/plotWindow
Hopefully this could be a good starting point for your application.
