Re: [Matplotlib-users] Feedback on an implementation of a matlab-ish "datacursor"

[Phil E. <pel...@gm...>]

Thanks for this Joe, mpldatacursor looks like an excellent piece of work -
I for one will be installing and using it regularly.

Thanks for sharing!





On 13 March 2013 03:58, Joe Kington <jof...@gm...> wrote:

> I recently got around to polishing up a snippet I've been using for quite
> awhile.  https://github.com/joferkington/mpldatacursor/  and I was hoping
> to get some feeding on the current implementation.
>
> "mpldatacursor" allows a user to easily click on an artist and display a
> customizable, interactive pop-up box displaying information about the
> selected artist (e.g. x & y, label, z for images and collections, etc).
> It's a stand-alone module (and in pypi), but you could also just download
> the examples directory from github and copy the mpldatacursor.py file into
> it to try things out.
>
> A few key questions:
>
>    1. Is this something that anyone else finds useful?
>
>    2. Does it seem intuitive?
>
>    3. Does the implementation seem flexible enough for most needs? (Note
>    that any additional kwargs are passed on to annotate to create the "data
>    cursor", so the appearance of the box is customizable through annotation
>    kwargs.)
>
>    4. Are there any obvious features missing?
>
>    5. Any suggestions? (especially better name suggestions...)
>
> If it is something that other people find useful, I'd be happy to submit a
> pull request to incorporate it into matplotlib.  (If I did, it would
> probably be best to drop the HighlightDataCursor class, as its limited in
> what it can do.)
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
> -Joe
>
>
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