I'm creating a GUI in Tkinter that has an embedded matplotlib graph. I change the contents of the graph based on a couple of Radiobuttons. These Radiobuttons are linked to a function which redefines the data in the graph, and ends with a call to self.canvas.draw(). I used Unable to update Tkinter matplotlib graph with buttons and custom data substantially, and I got it to work perfectly: the graph is updated with the desired new data.
The problem I run into is that (I'm using dates for the x-tick labels) after the redraw function is called, the x-tick labels get rotated back to horizontal, causing them to overlap. Below is a simplified form of my application, which has no dependencies so can be run directly.
import tkinter
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
import csv
import datetime as dt
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2TkAgg
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
class MainApp:
def __init__(self,parent):
self.RightFrame = LabelFrame(parent,text='RightFrame')
self.RightFrame.pack(side='right')
self.plot_fig=plt.figure(figsize=(4,4),dpi=100)
self.fig = Figure()
self.ax = self.fig.add_subplot(111)
self.fig.autofmt_xdate(rotation=30) ### Sets tick rotation Initially
self.ax.fmt_xdata=mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d')
self.ax.hold(False)
self.canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(self.fig,master=self.RightFrame)
self.canvas.show()
self.canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=TOP)
self.plot_radio_frame = LabelFrame(self.RightFrame)
self.plot_radio_frame.pack(side=BOTTOM)
self.plot_time_radio_var = IntVar()
self.plot_time_radio_var.set(7)
modes = [('1 Week',3),('1 Month',4),('1 Year',5),('5 Years',6),('All',0)]
for text,value in modes:
b= Radiobutton(self.plot_radio_frame,text=text,variable=self.plot_time_radio_var,value=value)
b.pack(side=LEFT)
self.plot_time_radio_var.trace('w',self.plotting_function)
def plotting_function(self, varname, elementname, mode):
plot_time = self.plot_time_radio_var.get()
try:
data_hist = [['2016-12-16',116.4700],
['2016-12-19',115.8000],
['2016-12-20',116.7400],
['2016-12-21',116.8000],
['2016-12-22',116.3500],
['2016-12-23',115.5900],
['2016-12-27',116.5200],
['2016-12-28',117.5200],
['2016-12-29',116.4500],
['2016-12-30',116.6500]
]
days = int(plot_time)
spacing = 1
dates = [line[0] for line in data_hist[-days::spacing]]
new_dates = [dt.datetime.strptime(d,'%Y-%m-%d').date() for d in dates]
Y_DATA = [line[1] for line in data_hist[-days::spacing]]
#print(adj_close)
self.curve = self.ax.plot(new_dates,Y_DATA)
self.canvas.draw()
except Exception as e:
print(str(e))
root = Tk()
MainApp(root)
root.mainloop()
