[Matplotlib-devel] feature request

[Rogier Delporte]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Op 29 sep. 2017 11:35 p.m. schreef "Antony Lee" <antony.lee at berkeley.edu>:

> Hi,
> You may also want to look at mplcursors's hover mode (https://mplcursors.
> readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/hover.html#sphx-glr-examples-hover-py).
> Antony
>
> 2017-09-29 14:24 GMT-07:00 Jody Klymak <jklymak at uvic.ca>:
>
>> Hi Rogier,
>>
>> You can already do this by writing a format_coord function and setting
>> ax.format_coord property of the axis with your data in it.
>>
>> http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/image_zcoord.html
>>
>> Cheers, Jody
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2017, at 6:57, Rogier Delporte wrote:
>>
>> Dear maintainer(s)
>> Dear developpers
>>
>> I would like to request a new matplotlib feature. The current version of
>> matplotlib shows the coordinates of the cursor in the bottom right corner.
>> It would be great if some option or mode could be added which snaps the
>> cursor to data points. This would take some guesswork out of reading a
>> plot
>> with a lot of points.
>>
>> I know this feature is similar to the mpldatacursor toolkit, but
>> mpldatacursor does not provide a smooth and fast way to pinpoint a data
>> point.
>>
>> I hope someone would like to implement this feature, because I don't have
>> sufficient programming skills to implement this myself.
>>
>> Thanks for the awesomeness that is matplotlib!
>>
>> Rogier
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