Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cursor position

[Thomas R. <tho...@gm...>]

> I think the easiest solution is to override the Axes.format_coord.  
> For example,
>
>  ax = gca()
>  ax.format_coord = lambda x,y : "x=%g y=%g" % (x, y)
>
> x,y are in data coordinate. I'm not sure if there is any side effect,
> but it seems that the format_coord method is only used to display the
> coordinate in the toolbar.

This is exactly what I needed - thanks!

Tom