Re: [Matplotlib-users] Event handling

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Nils Wagner
<nw...@ia...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to restrict the mouse movements to the points of a graph
> (curve tracking) ?


No, but you can obtain the vertices of the line that are within a
tolerance of the clicked point using the picking functions.  See the
tutorial at

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/event_handling.html

and the "pick*" demos at

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/event_handling/index.html

JDH