On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Preben Randhol <rand...@pvv.org> wrote: > Hi > > I have tried the mpl and glade examples and tried different approaches > from the net, but I can only get button_press_event to work with a matplot > canvas. key_press_event does not work using gtkagg for GUI. > > Is this due to the gtk builder 2.16? I mean does the main window steal the > key_presses or something? > > I had previously tried an example without a gtk gui (don't remember the > example). There a callback was connected and it could get events > containing both mouse click and keypress. I mean if I pressed the mouse > button while keeping doen say 'e' I could get form event.key that 'e' was > pressed when I click the mouse. > > I have to use gtk for the rest of the GUI so when I tried to pack the > canvas into gtk I got the problem that callbacks and connections didn't > work. i guess it has to do with that gtk has it's own callback system. > > If anybody has some example code, tips or tricks, I would very much > appreciate that. I cannot at the moment provide an example code due to > project deadline, but will do afterwards.
I've seen this before when an mpl canvas is placed in a gtk notebook widget for example. The containing class swallows the kwy press event. What has worked for me before is to grab the focus with the mpl FigureCanvas: canvas.grab_focus() Thanks, JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
