Enable/Disable interaction

[GuillaumeFavelier]

Hello PyVista community! I would like to know if there is a way to disable interactions with the plotter completely (mouse, keyboard, ...) temporarily. It could be restored afterwards. Ideally, I am looking for something like enable/disable.

If such a feature is not available yet and you know a way to accomplish this, I would be happy to open a PR to add it with your guidance.

This is useful for a specific use case (mne-tools/mne-python#8363).

[banesullivan]

The renderers have both enable()/disable() methods to do tjust this which are wrapped by the plotter for the current active renderer:

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> p = pv.Plotter()
>>> p.add_mesh(pv.Cube())
>>> p.disable()
>>> p.show()
# non-interactive plot shown

[banesullivan]

I do this often for ortho slicing where I only want the 3D view to be interactive and have the other slices views remain still in a parallel projection, e.g. pyvista/pyvista#263

[GuillaumeFavelier]

Thank you so much for your quick answer @banesullivan ! I missed this feature completety 😅

Sadly, it does not directly solve my particular issue so I think it's something specific to mne-python or pyvistaqt. Anyway, it's a step forward 👍