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Confusing status bar values in presence of multiple axes #5506
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plt.plot([1, 2]); plt.twinx().plot([4, 3])
The xy values printed in the status bar are those of the twin axes (I guess because they were added last), which is somwhat confusing. I'd suggest listing the coordinates in all overlaid axes systems instead.
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tacaswell commentedon Nov 18, 2015
Also see discussion at #2986
The limitation is how the event handling system deals with over-lapping axes (which is to give the event to the top one and be done with it).
anntzer commentedon Nov 18, 2015
Perhaps we should just reopen the old issue and close this one?
kawing-chiu commentedon Jan 19, 2016
Is there a workaround for this at the moment? In my case, I have
and I want the
y=<...>in the status bar to showax1's y value instead ofax1t's.WeatherGod commentedon Jan 19, 2016
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a workaround, except to flip around
which axes twins which, which probably isn't ideal.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:06 AM, kawing-chiu notifications@github.com
wrote:
tacaswell commentedon Jan 19, 2016
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16672530/cursor-tracking-using-matplotlib-and-twinx/16672970#16672970 for a start on how to do this.
github-actions commentedon Mar 19, 2023
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anntzer commentedon Mar 21, 2023
Displaying the coordinates on all axes over which the mouse cursor is (#2986 (comment)) still seems reasonable to me.
github-actions commentedon Mar 22, 2024
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