Re: [Matplotlib-users] detect mouse clicks

[Michael M. <mic...@gm...>]

Further update: I think I know how to do this. I can register a mouse event
handler, and its xdata and ydata properties will tell me the data
coordinates.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Mossey <mic...@gm...>wrote:

> Note: I'm looking at the Picker examples now and one problem I see is that
> I'm not asking the user to click on data points, but anywhere on the axes.
>
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Michael Mossey <mic...@gm...>wrote:
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>> For my application which is a simple sound file editor written with
>> matplotlib and PyQt4, I want to detect left and right clicks on the canvas.
>> I need to know the data coordinates of the click (i.e., not where on the
>> screen the click occurred, but what data point as defined by the axes it
>> represents). How do I do this?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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