Re: [matplotlib-devel] Event handling example not working

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

Neil Crighton wrote:
> I noticed on the event handling doc page:
> 
> mat...@li...
> 
> that the draggable rectangle example doesn't work in version 0.98.3.
> The rectangle class no longer seems to have the xy property.  If you
> replace the current on_press() method in the example with the code
> below it seem to work.
> 
>     def on_press(self, event):
>         'on button press we will see if the mouse is over us and store
> some data'
>         if event.inaxes != self.rect.axes: return
> 
>         contains, attrd = self.rect.contains(event)
>         if not contains: return
>         xy = self.rect.get_x(),self.rect.get_y()
>         print 'event contains', xy
>         x0, y0 = xy
>         self.press = x0, y0, event.xdata, event.ydata
> 

Good catch.  I checked in a slightly different version of the fix.

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma