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Hi,

In the example below I can make the cursor snap over the
nearest point with the mouse and also move the cursor with the
keyboard.
But I can't print the coordinates in the toolbar when the I
move the cursor with the keyboard as when I move with the mouse!
Does anyone have an idea?


Cheers,
Alexandre



from pylab import *
import numpy
from matplotlib.widgets import Cursor


class DataCursor(Cursor):
    def __init__(self, t, y, ax, useblit=True, **lineprops):
        Cursor.__init__(self, ax, useblit=True, **lineprops)
        self.y = y
        self.t = t
        self.i = 0
        self.xstr = ''
        self.ystr = ''

    def onmove(self, event):
        """
        we override event.xdata to force it to snap-to nearest data item
        """
        N = len(self.y)

        # Mouse Move
        if event.name=="motion_notify_event":
          xdata  = event.xdata
          ind    = numpy.searchsorted(self.t, xdata)
          self.i = min(N-1, ind)

        # Key press
        elif event.name=="key_press_event":
          if event.key=="right":
              self.i+=1
              while self.i>=N:
                  self.i-=N
          elif event.key=="left":
              self.i-=1
              while self.i<0:
                  self.i+=N

        # Set the cursor and draw
        event.xdata = self.t[self.i]
        event.ydata = self.y[self.i]
        self.xstr = '%1.3f'%event.xdata
        self.ystr = '%1.3f'%event.ydata
        Cursor.onmove(self, event)

    def fmtx(self, x):
        return self.xstr

    def fmty(self, y):
        return self.ystr




t = numpy.cumsum(numpy.random.rand(20))
y = numpy.random.rand(len(t))

fig = figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

ax.plot(t, y, 'go')
cursor = DataCursor(t, y, ax, useblit=True, color='red', linewidth=2 )
ax.fmt_xdata = cursor.fmtx
ax.fmt_ydata = cursor.fmty

fig.canvas.mpl_connect('key_press_event', cursor.onmove )
show()