Hide / Invisible Matplotlib figure

Question

I have a question, not sure if its difficult or not, but i tried to google the answer. nothing worthy.

I have figure as global, which can be accessed in all threads.

but it appears in the beginning of the program,

I want to hide or making it invisible in the starting of the script then at one point in the code make it available or visible.

Is there is any Matplotlib like visible False or something

i use this:

plt.ion()

fig = plt.figure(visible=False)

ax =fig.add_subplot(111)

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I have to do the same thing that you're asking for, but I put the figure on a canvas first using this process (NOTE: this uses matplotlib, pyplot, and wxPython):

#Define import and simplify how things are called
from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWxAgg as FigureCanvas
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#Make a panel
panel = wx.Panel(self)

#Make a figure
self.figure = plt.figure("Name")
#The "Name" is not necessary, but can be useful if you have lots of plots

#Make a canvas
self.canvas = FigureCanvas(panel, -1, self.figure)

#Then use
self.canvas.Show(True)
#or
self.canvas.Show(False)

#You can also check the state of the canvas using (probably with an if statement)
self.canvas.IsShown()