vscode-jupyter: Plot Viewer no longer an option with latest update

Issue Type: Bug

The ability to use plot viewer on plots in jupyter notebook is not an option anymore. I have tried hovering over the plot as well an double clicking and drag-and-droping the plot but the plot viewer just isn’t there anymore.

VS Code version: Code 1.57.0 (b4c1bd0a9b03c749ea011b06c6d2676c8091a70c, 2021-06-09T17:18:42.895Z) OS version: Linux x64 4.15.0-144-generic snap Restricted Mode: No

System Info
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CPUs Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (12 x 4299)
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video_decode: disabled_software
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Load (avg) 1, 1, 1
Memory (System) 31.27GB (21.73GB free)
Process Argv –force-user-env --unity-launch --crash-reporter-id 8549cb84-3041-4f25-a346-0734e581d59b
Screen Reader no
VM 0%
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Extensions (4)
Extension Author (truncated) Version
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vscode-pylance ms- 2021.6.1
jupyter ms- 2021.6.999406279
hexeditor ms- 1.7.0
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About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 2
  • Comments: 20 (14 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Hello @claudiaregio, the plot viewer is extremely useful when I have multiple plots within a notebook and want to be able to click between a few in another tab in VS quickly. Further, most of my plots are quite large and are difficult to look at in the notebook output, the plot viewer made it easy to open a plot and zoom in on particular parts of the plot. Honestly, this feature was my favorite part of using jupyter notebook in VScode rather than in a browser!

I would like to be able to view plots on the side, then re-run the cell and compare the difference between the two plots, as well as compare with other plots scattered throughout the notebook. Also, the capability of zooming plots in and out is nice when my plots are large. I currently don’t really care about saving them, though I will install the VScode insiders.