And here's yet another refinement. Works around a wx bug (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.wxpython/37937/match=tooltip) that prevents newlines from being recognized in the tooltip string. Also, disables the tooltip when the mouse moves off of the axes, which prevents stray tooltips from hanging around.

Martin

Martin Spacek wrote:
Here's an updated version. mpl.use('WXAgg') should come before importing pylab.

Martin

"""Example of how to use wx tooltips on a matplotlib figure window.
A tooltip pops up and tracks the mouse when the mouse is above the
axes, updating it's value with the current x and y data values under
mouse position"""

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.use('WXAgg')
mpl.interactive(False)

import pylab as pl
from pylab import get_current_fig_manager as gcfm
import wx


class wxToolTipExample(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.f = pl.figure()
        self.a = self.f.add_subplot(111)

        self.tooltip = wx.ToolTip(tip='tip with a long %s line and a newline\n' 
% (' '*100)) # create a long tooltip with newline to get around wx bug where 
newlines aren't recognized on subsequent self.tooltip.SetTip() calls
        self.tooltip.Enable(False) # leave disabled for now
        self.tooltip.SetDelay(0) # set popup delay in ms
        gcfm().canvas.SetToolTip(self.tooltip) # connect the tooltip to the 
canvas

        self.f.canvas.mpl_connect('motion_notify_event', self.onmotion)

    def onmotion(self, event):
        """Called during mouse motion over figure"""
        if event.xdata != None and event.ydata != None: # mouse is inside the 
axes
            tip='x=%f\ny=%f' % (event.xdata, event.ydata)
            self.tooltip.SetTip(tip) # update the tooltip
            self.tooltip.Enable(True) # make sure it's enabled
        else: # mouse is outside the axes
            self.tooltip.Enable(False) # disable the tooltip

example = wxToolTipExample()

pl.show()
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