Setting window titles when in interactive mode

[lilynguyen]

Perhaps it's only a version issue that you cannot set a window title (fig.canvas.set_window_title('title')) for a figure when it's in interactive mode. I'm currently working with LeapMotion which right now can only work with in python v2.7 and mpl v1.4.3 which co-depends on numpy v1.6.1. I have tried newer versions of both numpy and mpl and it doesn't like python 2.7 and LeapMotion, both of which are necessary.

Is there a workaround for this or do I have to settle for "Figure1?"
It's not the end of the world, of course, but it's a nice customization!

edit:
not an interactive mode issue. still exploring the actual issue. sorry for the wasted issue!

[tacaswell]

You can also pass a string into the figure creation code (I think that shipped in 1.4.x)

[lilynguyen]

Do you mean fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8,6),'title')?

[tacaswell]

See http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.figure
num is badly named (but we can not change it for back-compatibilty
reasons.

fig = plt.figure('my fancy fig', ...) should work.

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Do you mean fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8,6),'title')?

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[lilynguyen]

Wow I totally just skipped over the desc of that arg - thought it could only take ints.
Currently I have self.fig = plt.figure('signum', figsize=(15,10), facecolor='black', tight_layout=True)
'signum' being the name of the game I'm trying to create. Unfortunately this still doesn't work with that I'm working with - still says 'Figure1'. :(
Is this affected by the fact that this is all in a class?
Or that I'm adding a few subplots to self.fig?

[WeatherGod]

Which backend? I think some backends don't implement title setting
correctly.
On Nov 27, 2015 9:55 PM, "Lily Nguyen" notifications@github.com wrote:

Wow I totally just skipped over the desc of that arg - thought it could
only take ints.
Currently I have self.fig = plt.figure('signum', figsize=(15,10),
facecolor='black', tight_layout=True)
'signum' being the name of the game I'm trying to create. Unfortunately
this still doesn't work with that I'm working with - still says 'Figure1'.
:(
Is this affected by the fact that this is all in a class?
Or that I'm adding a few subplots to self.fig?

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[lilynguyen]

Which backend? I think some backends don't implement title setting
correctly.

What do you mean which backend?
If it means anything both fig.canvas.set_window_title and the num argument work when I'm doing simple plotting for mpl. Seems to be integration with LeapMotion that is doing it in unfortunately.

[rvalenzuelar]

Is this issue still open? I have the same problem when trying to use fig.canvas.set_window_title. I'm using Qt5Agg backend.

[tacaswell]

@rvalenzuelar Please open a new issue.