support for matplotlib.animation?

[olincb]

I've been trying to use returnfig=True to replot live data with matplotlib.animation, but the new axes do not update on the original figure. I believe this is due to the fact that a new figure and axes are created in mplfinance.
A config setting for plot, or a new function, to update axes rather than return a new figure and axes would help with this I think.

[olincb]

I suppose this comment didn't really have a question in it, so...
Is this a feature you'd be interested in implementing?
Or, is there already a way to do this that I am missing?

[DanielGoldfarb]

returnfig has limited value (you can only do a few things with it), because, as you mentioned, the Figure and Axes were created by mplfinance, and the Figure is already "full" with the axes that were created. But it was easy to do and allows support for tkinter so it definitely has some value.

I don't know what you mean by

A config setting for plot, or a new function, to update axes rather than return a new figure and axes would help with this I think.

Can you please explain?

There is already an issue to support animation here although several other issues/enhancements are ahead if it, in terms of priority (unless, of course, you or someone else volunteers to do the work?)

And there is an enhancement request here to be able to pass your own Figure and Axes into mpl.plot() which I hope begin work on in about week.

[olincb]

Oh, excellent. These two feature requests are exactly what I was thinking of. Glad to hear that.

[DanielGoldfarb]

Duplicate of #25 and
Duplicate of #17