Re: [Matplotlib-users] Weird resizing issue

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 24 July 2006 15:12, Jouni K Seppanen wrote:
> Tommy Grav <tg...@ma...> writes:
> > The window resizes horisontally when the pointer is inside the
> > window, although the window behaves erratically as it resizes.
> > Moving the pointer to the right will cause the window to grow then
> > reduce size as you go further right.
>
> Is this related to the pointer coordinates shown in the lower-right
> corner of the window? I.e., when you move the pointer right, perhaps
> the x-coordinate becomes a longer number and the window is enlarged to
> accommodate it. I remember seeing behavior like this on some old
> version of Matplotlib (probably TkAgg backend on OS X) but cannot
> reproduce it now.

I fixed this problem for the qt backends. The coordinates of the cursor are 
rendered in a label, and the resize policy of the label needs to be set so it 
doesnt try to grow to accomodate the long string.

Darren