How to set the last frame as default on animated chart?

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Hey fellows,

I would like to change the ‘default’ frame of my animated chart and force it to use the last date as default when the Dash application is rendered. How can I do this?

import plotly.express as px

df = px.data.gapminder()

fig = px.scatter(df, x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp", animation_frame="year", animation_group="country",
           size="pop", color="continent", hover_name="country",
           log_x=True, size_max=55, range_x=[100,100000], range_y=[25,90])

I’m trying something like it:

frame = -1
fig = go.Figure(fig.frames[frame].data, fig.frames[frame].layout)
fig

but it’s not showing the slider;

Could someone give me a direction on how I can I found references about it?

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Dear Leonardo, @kabure

Always a pleasure to read your posts/questions.

If you have Plotly 1.10 or higher, you can use this to dig deep into the code:

fig = px.scatter(....
dev_fig = fig.full_figure_for_development()
print(dev_fig)

here’s what you need to do:

fig.layout['sliders'][0]['active'] = 11
fig.show()

because the 11th date is 2007. If you want it to start with 2002, assign 10 to ‘active’ instead of 11.

Kind regards,

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Hey Adam, thank you very much for your support bro, I appreciate it;

I tried to implement your solution and the problem with the slider seems solved, but the data still on the first day;


import plotly.express as px

df = px.data.gapminder()

fig = px.scatter(df, x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp", animation_frame="year", animation_group="country",
           size="pop", color="continent", hover_name="country",
           log_x=True, size_max=55, range_x=[100,100000], range_y=[25,90])

fig.layout['sliders'][0]['active'] = 11
fig.show()

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Am I missing something?! Maybe, should I use the go.Figure(fig.frames[frame].data, fig.frames[frame].layout) before or after doing this, is it?



Also, I found interesting the "full_figure_for development()" idea and tried to use it, but it isn't working for me even with the plotly higher than 1.10;

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After running it I get the error:

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I would very grateful if you could give me more information about it;

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My bad Leonardo. It’s Plotly 4.10.

Try it now and see what other values or attributes you can change deep inside the figure so it gives you the right label/year.

I’ll also try more tonight and let you know if I find the answer

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Hey Adam, finally I discovered how to do it;

It will works!

import plotly_express as px

df = px.data.gapminder()

fig = px.scatter(df, x="gdpPercap", y="lifeExp", animation_frame="year", animation_group="country",
           size="pop", color="continent", hover_name="country",
           log_x=True, size_max=55, range_x=[100,100000], range_y=[25,90])

last_frame_num = int(len(fig.frames) -1)

fig.layout['sliders'][0]['active'] = last_frame_num

fig = go.Figure(data=fig['frames'][last_frame_num]['data'], frames=fig['frames'], layout=fig.layout)

fig



Thank you very much for the help bro, appreciate a lot

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