Global Configuration Options

PyQtGraph has several global configuration options that allow you to change its default behavior. These can be accessed using the setConfigOptions() and getConfigOption() functions:

Option

Type

Default

leftButtonPan

bool

True

If True, dragging the left mouse button over a ViewBox causes the view to be panned. If False, then dragging the left mouse button draws a rectangle that the ViewBox will zoom to.

foreground

See mkColor()

‘d’

Default foreground color for text, lines, axes, etc.

background

See mkColor()

‘k’

Default background for GraphicsView.

antialias

bool

False

Enabling antialiasing causes lines to be drawn with smooth edges at the cost of reduced performance.

imageAxisOrder

str

‘col-major’

For ‘row-major’, image data is expected in the standard row-major (row, col) order. For ‘col-major’, image data is expected in reversed column-major (col, row) order. The default is ‘col-major’ for backward compatibility, but this may change in the future.

editorCommand

str or None

None

Command used to invoke code editor from ConsoleWidget.

exitCleanup

bool

True

Attempt to work around some exit crash bugs in PyQt and PySide.

useOpenGL

bool

False

Enable OpenGL in GraphicsView.

useCupy

bool

False

Use cupy to perform calculations on the GPU. Only currently applies to ImageItem and its associated functions.

useNumba

bool

False

Use numba acceleration where implemented.

enableExperimental

bool

False

Enable experimental features (the curious can search for this key in the code). In combination with useOpenGL, this makes PlotCurveItem use PyOpenGL for curve drawing.

Caveats

  • Only a very limited subset of the full options of PlotCurveItem is implemented.

  • Single precision is used. This may cause drawing artifacts.

crashWarning

bool

False

If True, print warnings about situations that may result in a crash.

pyqtgraph.setConfigOptions(**opts)[source]

Set global configuration options.

Each keyword argument sets one global option.

pyqtgraph.getConfigOption(opt)[source]

Return the value of a single global configuration option.