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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, John Hunter wrote:

> Yes, this would be a very nive feature.  When you implement it, please
> send it back to the list. Here is an example that shows you how to
> connect to the events and more importantly for you, convert to user
> coords
>
Here's a very preliminary implementation. Its not really very elegant,
but it seems to work. A couple of questions. Is there a remove_line or
equivalent for axes? As of now, I make the rectangle which shows the
zoom window dissapear by setting its xdata and ydata to [], but it might
be elegant to just remove the line from the axis completely. Also I seem
to trigger a matplotlib bug if I toggle the zoom button and then start
the button press event outside the axes.

I have yet to delve into the matplotlib source itself and maybe I am not
the best person to do it. The best place to add this would be to extend
the axes class with a .zoom() method which would work like the
ZoomButtonPressed() function below (It basically makes the next button
press trigger the ZoomStart() function which in turn calls
ZoomContinue() on the "motion_notify_event"). ZoomStart() will have to
be modified to account for more than one axes belonging to a figure.
We'll have to check whether the user presses the mouse in the axes whos
.zoom() function has been called.

Thanks again for all the help :) I think I am almost ready to get things
working with matplotlib.

-- 
Srinath

from matplotlib.numerix import arange, sin, cos, pi

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('GTK')
from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import FigureCanvasGTK

from matplotlib.axes import Subplot
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import gtk

class MyApp:
    def __init__(self):
        self.win = gtk.Window()
        self.win.set_name("Embedding in GTK")
        self.win.connect("destroy", gtk.mainquit)
        self.win.set_border_width(5)

        self.vbox = gtk.VBox(spacing=3)
        self.win.add(self.vbox)
        self.vbox.show()

        self.fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
        self.ax = Subplot(self.fig, 111)

        self.ax.plot([0,1], [0,1])
        self.fig.add_axis(self.ax)

        self.canvas = FigureCanvasGTK(self.fig)  # a gtk.DrawingArea
        self.canvas.show()
        self.canvas.connect('motion_notify_event', self.setAxisCursorLocation)
        self.vbox.pack_start(self.canvas)

        buttonZoom = gtk.ToggleButton('Toggle Zoom')
        buttonZoom.connect('button_press_event', self.ZoomButtonPressed)
        buttonZoom.show()
        self.vbox.pack_start(buttonZoom)

        self.win.show()

    def setAxisCursorLocation(self, widget, event):
        height = self.canvas.figure.bbox.y.interval()
        x, y = event.x, height-event.y

        t = self.ax.xaxis.transData.inverse_positions(x)
        val = self.ax.yaxis.transData.inverse_positions(y)

        self.cursorLocation = (t, val)

    def getAxisCursorLocation(self):
        if not hasattr(self, 'cursorLocation'):
            return None

        return self.cursorLocation

    def ZoomButtonPressed(self, widget, event):
        if not widget.get_active():
            self.zoomStartEventHandle = self.canvas.connect('button_press_event', self.ZoomStart)
        else:
            if hasattr(self, 'zoomStartEventHandle'):
                self.canvas.disconnect(self.zoomStartEventHandle)

    def ZoomStart(self, widget, event):
        self.zoomStartPosition = self.getAxisCursorLocation()
        x, y = self.zoomStartPosition
        if hasattr(self, 'zoomRectangle'):
            self.zoomRectangle.set_xdata([x,x,x,x,x])
            self.zoomRectangle.set_ydata([y,y,y,y,y])
        else:
            self.zoomRectangle = self.ax.plot([x,x,x,x,x], [y,y,y,y,y], 'k:')[0]

        self.zoomContinueEventHandle = self.canvas.connect_after('motion_notify_event', self.ZoomContinue)
        self.zoomStopEventHandle = self.canvas.connect('button_release_event', self.ZoomStop)

    def ZoomContinue(self, widget, event):
        xs, ys = self.zoomStartPosition
        x, y = self.getAxisCursorLocation()
        self.zoomRectangle.set_xdata([xs, x, x, xs, xs])
        self.zoomRectangle.set_ydata([ys, ys, y, y, ys])

        self.canvas.draw()

    def ZoomStop(self, widget, event):
        self.canvas.disconnect(self.zoomContinueEventHandle)
        self.canvas.disconnect(self.zoomStopEventHandle)

        self.zoomRectangle.set_xdata([])
        self.zoomRectangle.set_ydata([])

        xs, ys = self.zoomStartPosition
        x, y = self.getAxisCursorLocation()

        self.ax.set_xlim([min([xs,x]), max([xs,x])])
        self.ax.set_ylim([min([ys,y]), max([ys,y])])
        self.canvas.draw()

if __name__=='__main__':
    app = MyApp()
    gtk.mainloop()