Cell Toggle Scrolling & Clear options do not work on figures created by interact() functions

[iyer]

If I draw figures through an interact() function, the figures do not respond to the Jupyter|Cell|Current Output|Toggle Scrolling or Clear menus.

I have avoided using matplotlib inline based on the suggestion ipython/ipython#10376

Below is the version info

import ipywidgets
ipywidgets.version_info
(6, 0, 0)

Below is the information on jupyter notebook

The version of the notebook server is 4.4.1 and is running on
Python 3.5.3 |Anaconda 2.4.0 (64-bit)| (default, Mar  6 2017, 11:58:13) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)]

Below is the code that demonstrates this behavior

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from ipywidgets import interact
import pandas as pd

def f(n):
    nrows = 7
    figsize = (7, 5*nrows)
    fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=nrows, ncols=1)
    for idx in range(nrows):
        pd.Series(range(n)).plot(ax=axes[idx], figsize=figsize)
    plt.show(fig)

interact(f,n=(5,20));

[jasongrout]

Great question. We have a new way of doing interacts in ipywidgets 6 that makes the output actually part of the interact. This means you can, for example, embed an interact in another widget, put it beside other controls, have two interacts in the same cell, etc.

Clearing output will work (and will clear the whole interact, not just the output) in notebook 5.0 (due out in a few days).

I'll look into what it would take to have the scrolling toggle working. That would work in JupyterLab, but may take another change in the classic notebook to enable correctly.

[iyer]

Nice! Looking forward to notebook 5.0

Also it would be great to get a fix in for the scrolling behavior which can make reading figures a little tedious.

[jasongrout]

This will be fixed by #1274.

[jasongrout]

#1274 was merged, so closing this as fixed.