Thank you for the help! Your example does exactly what I was looking for. I’ve been using iplot exclusively and wasn’t familiar with the FigureWidget interface (still new to Plotly), it does seem very useful.
Unfortunately, my plot also uses animation frames, which seem to be not supported with FigureWidgets. From other forum posts, it sounds like that’s a planned feature, so I guess I’ll just have to wait for that to be implemented.
Edit: Actually it seems that I could probably accomplish what I’m looking for via FigureWidget updates, so I guess this is completely solved.