Embedding in Qt#

Simple Qt application embedding Matplotlib canvases. This program will work equally well using any Qt binding (PyQt6, PySide6, PyQt5, PySide2). The binding can be selected by setting the QT_API environment variable to the binding name, or by first importing it.

import sys
import time

import numpy as np

from matplotlib.backends.qt_compat import QtWidgets
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qtagg import (
    FigureCanvas, NavigationToolbar2QT as NavigationToolbar)
from matplotlib.figure import Figure


class ApplicationWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self._main = QtWidgets.QWidget()
        self.setCentralWidget(self._main)
        layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self._main)

        static_canvas = FigureCanvas(Figure(figsize=(5, 3)))
        # Ideally one would use self.addToolBar here, but it is slightly
        # incompatible between PyQt6 and other bindings, so we just add the
        # toolbar as a plain widget instead.
        layout.addWidget(NavigationToolbar(static_canvas, self))
        layout.addWidget(static_canvas)

        dynamic_canvas = FigureCanvas(Figure(figsize=(5, 3)))
        layout.addWidget(dynamic_canvas)
        layout.addWidget(NavigationToolbar(dynamic_canvas, self))

        self._static_ax = static_canvas.figure.subplots()
        t = np.linspace(0, 10, 501)
        self._static_ax.plot(t, np.tan(t), ".")

        self._dynamic_ax = dynamic_canvas.figure.subplots()
        t = np.linspace(0, 10, 101)
        # Set up a Line2D.
        self._line, = self._dynamic_ax.plot(t, np.sin(t + time.time()))
        self._timer = dynamic_canvas.new_timer(50)
        self._timer.add_callback(self._update_canvas)
        self._timer.start()

    def _update_canvas(self):
        t = np.linspace(0, 10, 101)
        # Shift the sinusoid as a function of time.
        self._line.set_data(t, np.sin(t + time.time()))
        self._line.figure.canvas.draw()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Check whether there is already a running QApplication (e.g., if running
    # from an IDE).
    qapp = QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
    if not qapp:
        qapp = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)

    app = ApplicationWindow()
    app.show()
    app.activateWindow()
    app.raise_()
    qapp.exec()

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