Re: [matplotlib-devel] "Data cursor" for matplotilb.widgets

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Joe Kington <jki...@ge...>wrote:
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>> I've recently been playing around with a widget intended to be similar to
>> matlab's "data cursor".
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>> Would this be useful for inclusion into matplotlib.widgets?
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>> https://gist.github.com/1659108
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>> At the moment, it doesn't inherit from the base Widget class, but that's
>> easily changed.
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>> On the other hand, it doesn't fit the model of the rest of the widgets in
>> that it takes a sequence (or single) artist, instead of an axes instance.
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>> If folks think it would be useful, I can submit a pull request.
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>> Thanks,
>> -Joe
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> This is pretty cool. Any idea how much work it would take to add handling
> of images?
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> -Tony
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Just to clarify: by "handling images", I mean displaying the intensity
value at a point (it currently just displays the x, y coordinates).

-Tony