Matthew Auger wrote: > Ah...right. That works well enough (I believe that I originally had > editted backend_bases to circumvent the format_coord call--clearly not > the best solution)! I don't know of a good reason to *not* use the axis > formatting, but perhaps an rcparam could control this?
I don't know what the historical reason for the present default is, but one candidate is speed: the coordinate numbers get reformatted and printed at a great rate as the cursor moves across a plot, so one might not want to have the formatting done by a big chunk of python code. format_data_short will typically be faster than format_data. An rcParam certainly could be added, given sufficient demand. Now, I'm wondering why the number of digits is actually important to you--are you writing those numbers down? If so, would you rather capture the numbers to a file upon clicking? examples/zoom_window.py shows how to grab the coordinates at which a button was clicked. There may be better examples, but this is the first one I found. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
