On 7 Oct 2011, at 4:56 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > I'm wanting to highlight the artist under the cursor with a > transparent Rectangle patch. To do this, I have very, roughly, in a > mouse motion handler, > > under = self.figure.hitlist(ev) > if under: > artist = under[0] > bbox = artist.get_window_extent() > highlight = > matplotlib > .patches > .Rectangle > (xy > = > bbox.min,width=bbox.width,height=bbox.height,alpha=0.2,color='yellow') > # further code to blit the last captured graph region with > highlight drawn on top > > The main problem is that all artists don't implement > get_window_extent(); a Text object does, and a legend object does, > but the Axis objects do not. > > So is there a general way to get the bounding box of an artist?
Did you ever find a way to get the bounding box of an artist? I could use this too. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
