Make saving images from Interactive window easier

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.33
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.3.6558
• OS and version: Win 10, 1703
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7.3
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): conda
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: matplotlib maybe

Expected behaviour

Saving multiple images from the interactive tab by dragging to Windows explorer/Finder is easy and comfortable

Actual behaviour

Saving multiple images is rather bothersome, as each file has the same name (download.png) and has to be renamed before saving another file.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Plot multiple images
2. Drag them into the same folder

More Details

Maybe related to: microsoft/vscode-jupyter#1470

Currently it is possible to drag the image from the interactive tab to e.g. Windows Explorer to save it as download.png. Saving multiple images in this way is a bit painful, as it is necessary to rename them every time.

Is it possible to give each image in the interactive tab an alt-tag which would then be used as image name? If yes, I would suggest something that uses a ISO Time/Date (: would have to be handled somehow) and e.g. the “cell name”. Timestamp should be the time when the cell is executed.

ScriptName.py:
#%% [CellName] Comment
plot1() # ScriptName-CellName-1-TS
plot2() # ScriptName-CellName-2-TS

#%% Comment
plot3() # ScriptName-#Cell-1-TS
plot4() # ScriptName-#Cell-2-TS

[oerpli]

I am surprised that this isn’t a common scenario. I analyze some things, create a several plots and then save those that I would use to show my results to colleagues or similar.

For serious presentations/publications I would of course save them as pdf/svg but sometimes quick & dirty (low res png) is good enough.

[greazer]

Thanks for the feedback! However, we don’t have plans on adding this functionality at this time.