Joe, Do you have any feeling for performance of mpldatacursor? I'm interested to know if implementing this functionality by default (with an rcParam switch to disable) on all Axes would have a significant impact on performance? > If it is something that other people find useful, I'd be happy to submit a pull request to incorporate it into matplotlib. Personally, I find this kind of extension better as a completely separate piece of work which one could "pip install" - it means you can be more flexible with release cycles, especially in the early days of the code when regular updates are most likely. Though I should note, I'm not against it being included in mpl as an extension, if you would prefer that. Thanks again for sharing! On 13 March 2013 10:08, Phil Elson <pel...@gm...> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Mat...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >