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Thanks, John! That's exactly what I was looking for
I'm using the WX backend and I was able to do:
 figure(1)
 plot([1,2,3])
 manager = get_current_fig_manager()
 manager.window.SetPosition((100,100))
#or
 manager.window.Centre()
Eli
> Eg for the GTK backend, for example, you could do
>
> from pylab import *
>
> import gtk
>
> figure(1)
> plot([1,2,3])
> manager = get_current_fig_manager()
>
> # see gtk.Window class docs at
> # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
> manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
>
> figure(2)
> plot([1,2,3])
> manager = get_current_fig_manager()
>
> # see gtk.Window class docs at
> # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
> manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_NONE)
>
> show()
>
> For the WX* backend, manager.window is a wxFrame -
>
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_wxframe.html#wxframe
>
> For the TkAgg backend, manager.window is a Tkinter.Tk instance -
> http://starship.python.net/crew/fredrik/tkclass/ClassToplevel.html
>
> Off the top of my head I don't know the right incantation for each
> backend, but hopefully the classdocs I referenced above will help.
> Perhaps Todd or Matthew can chime in with more Tk and WX information.
>
> While this arrangement may be suboptimal, we are resisting the urge to
> become a GUI library. The temptations to abstract GUI functions for
> use in matplotlib are many, and we are trying to keep this to a
> manageable core (some event handling, some basic window management,
> etc.). It's been on my list of things to do to investigate anygui,
> however - http://anygui.sourceforge.net - which would appear to solve
> our problems but might require a substantial refactoring of the
> matplotlib backends.
>
> If you want full GUI control, you can embed matplotlib in your own GUI
> application, following one of the many embedding_in_*.py examples in
> the examples subdirectory of the matplotlib src distribution.
>
> If you come up with example code for your backend, please post it to
> the list.
>
> JDH
>
>
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Glaser <eg...@se...> writes:
 Eli> Hello, Is there an easy way to set the initial position of a
 Eli> Figure? I'm using Windows XP and new figures seem to pop up
 Eli> in the typical Windows fashion where subsequent figures
 Eli> appear about 20 pixels down and 20 pixels to the right of
 Eli> previous figures. How can I tell each figure where to pop up
 Eli> on screen?
matplotlib doesn't provide explicit support for this, but it is
possible. What backend are you using. The matplotlib Figure is
embedded in a FigureCanvas which is typically a GUI widget embedded in
a GUI Window. In the pylab interface, the canvas is managed by a
FigureManager, which has a window attribute on most of the backends.
Eg for the GTK backend, for example, you could do
 from pylab import *
 import gtk
 figure(1)
 plot([1,2,3])
 manager = get_current_fig_manager()
 # see gtk.Window class docs at
 # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
 manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER)
 figure(2)
 plot([1,2,3])
 manager = get_current_fig_manager()
 # see gtk.Window class docs at
 # http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkwindow.html
 manager.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_NONE)
 show()
For the WX* backend, manager.window is a wxFrame -
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_wxframe.html#wxframe
For the TkAgg backend, manager.window is a Tkinter.Tk instance -
http://starship.python.net/crew/fredrik/tkclass/ClassToplevel.html
Off the top of my head I don't know the right incantation for each
backend, but hopefully the classdocs I referenced above will help.
Perhaps Todd or Matthew can chime in with more Tk and WX information.
While this arrangement may be suboptimal, we are resisting the urge to
become a GUI library. The temptations to abstract GUI functions for
use in matplotlib are many, and we are trying to keep this to a
manageable core (some event handling, some basic window management,
etc.). It's been on my list of things to do to investigate anygui,
however - http://anygui.sourceforge.net - which would appear to solve
our problems but might require a substantial refactoring of the
matplotlib backends.
If you want full GUI control, you can embed matplotlib in your own GUI
application, following one of the many embedding_in_*.py examples in
the examples subdirectory of the matplotlib src distribution.
If you come up with example code for your backend, please post it to
the list.
JDH

Hello,
Is there an easy way to set the initial position of a Figure? I'm using
Windows XP and new
figures seem to pop up in the typical Windows fashion where subsequent
figures appear about
20 pixels down and 20 pixels to the right of previous figures. How can I
tell each figure where to
pop up on screen?
Thanks,
Eli

This is a warning to Solaris users - matplotlib 0.65 fails at runtime
with fatal relocation error. The problem was fixed in setupext.py in 
CVS,
(attached also to this message).
Nadia Dencheva