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cslotboom opened this issue Jul 2, 2021 · 4 comments
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Animation widgets for Pause/Rewind/etc. #20564

cslotboom opened this issue Jul 2, 2021 · 4 comments
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@cslotboom
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It would be useful if matplotlib had an animation class pre-programed with widgets, similar to the one on presented on the matplotlib website:
https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/animation/simple_anim.html#sphx-glr-gallery-animation-simple-anim-py
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Nearly all the animations I'm working on would benefit greatly from the ability to pause/rewind/step forward/etc. as shown in the example - it was sad to see these features couldn't be implemented using the example code.
It would be possible to recreate these widgets, but the process is finicky and quite involved, definitely not something the average user could easily step into.

A pre-built animation with widgets class could take a lot of the hassle out of implementing some of these features.
Baring that, having an example that recreated the website widgets in python would also save a lot of troubleshooting.
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mikaeltulldahl commented Nov 23, 2022 •
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This could be a good starting point
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46327978/3949028
I have been improving this Player class for my own purpose, could share it when it is done. I also found some more bugs with animation class in the pause() & resume() methods which will need fixing too

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That is a good example (as is most things @ImportanceOfBeingErnest has writte).

In the docs we have pre-rendererd the full animation and the html UI is effective a movie player. Doing it on top of a live figure gets a bit more interesting because we have a lot more degrees of freedom!

The choice to parameterize the animation only by i is a reasonable simplification.

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I'm a bit sceptical that we're driving the widget thing too far. Yes, it basically works and has the advantage of being backend-independent. On the other hand, it has some serious limitations: non-native look&feel, layout issues (does this work with constrained layout?), resizing/scaling issues, non-accessibility, ...

Maybe we'd be better off by creating an animation widget for each of the GUI toolkits and provide that similar to the toolbar. - After all it's only a set of buttons and a slider, which should be quite easy to create.

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It's up to matplotlib community to decide. I just realized that I was not alone looking for this functionality so I decided do share my work

@hmedina hmedina mentioned this issue Dec 9, 2022
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