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.
I had found it reasonably straightforward to install matplotlib on 10.6 (much
harder on 10.7 but that's a story that somebody more versed than I should
tell). I was stumped by trying to install basemap because I took the easy way
out with the Geos dependency and installed the latter via mac por
