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Hi folks,
I use matplotlib all the time, and one of the features I particularly
like is the interactivity of its plot windows. I like being able to
zoom in to a rectangle. But there's one UI quirk that I find annoying,
and I wonder how difficult it would be to change. Often when I want to
zoom in, I want to change only (say) the upper x and y limits. So I
click at the top right corner I want and drag the mouse all the way
out of the axes, then release, and it zooms in to the right place. But
the UI is misleading: once the mouse leaves the axes, the box that
indicates where I'll be zooming too stops updating, often leaving it
quite far from the actual zoom region (i.e. in this case, not
extending all the way to the corner, even though the zoom will reach
all the way to the corner). The problem is worst when I (say) leave
the axes from the bottom, then reach over horizontally, so that the
last update doesn't represent the width at all.
Would it be possible to keep updating the zoom rectangle even when the
mouse has left the axes?
Thanks,
Anne

Jouni K. Seppänen <jk...@ik...> writes:
> Have you tried the instructions in release/osx/README? It seems that on
> OS X it is easy to accidentally install a combination of libraries that
> will cause build problems with matplotlib:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-osx
Also, it seems that John has uploaded a new release candidate at
http://drop.io/xortel1#
so you could try and see if it works for you. Please note that it's a
release candidate, not a stable release.
-- 
Jouni K. Seppänen
http://www.iki.fi/jks