Re: [Matplotlib-users] 'remote control' matplotlib window

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

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chr...@no...> wrote:
> Peter McGregor wrote:
>> The problem with those examples is, when I comment the following line (for example in http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.html):
>>
>>         self.add_toolbar() # comment this out for no toolbar
>>
>> then I have no possibility to make the window react to mouse events.
>
> Give wxMPL a try:
>
> http://agni.phys.iit.edu/~kmcivor/wxmpl/
>
> It handles some, if not all, of this for you.
>
> However, you bring up a good point, unless you have missed something --
> the code for the various interactive modes really should be separate
> from the toolbar that activates those modes.

Well, they are -- they all reside in the baseclass which the GUI
toolbars override.  Peter can subclass
backend_bases.NavigationToolbar2 and make a custom toolbar.  If a "is
a" relation doesn't work for him, with a little work he should be able
to do a "has a" with the baseclass.

JDH