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

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Joe Kington <jki...@ge...>wrote:

> I've recently been playing around with a widget intended to be similar to
> matlab's "data cursor".
>
> Would this be useful for inclusion into matplotlib.widgets?
>
> https://gist.github.com/1659108
>
> At the moment, it doesn't inherit from the base Widget class, but that's
> easily changed.
>
> 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.
>
> If folks think it would be useful, I can submit a pull request.
>
> Thanks,
> -Joe
>

This is pretty cool. Any idea how much work it would take to add handling
of images?

-Tony