29/10/11 21:20, Benjamin Root
> On Saturday, October 29, 2011, Antoine Levitt
> <antoine.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 29/10/11 19:39, Benjamin Root
>>> I don't think there is a document for the default keymaps, and
> there
>>> has been some talk about redoing default keybindings, because they
> are
>>> so hidden and varies from backend to backend.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I would suggest checking out the "event handeling"
>>> section of the examples page. You can have a function that you
> attach
>>> to the "key_press_event", which takes an "event" object as an
>>> argument.  That event object has the key that was pressed.  You can
>>> then have an if...elif...else statement for all the keys and
> actions,
>>> or have a dictionary of key-action pairs.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps!
>>> Ben Root
>>
>> That's pretty cool! However, I have to do it for every figure I
> create,
>> there doesn't seem to be a way to tell matplotlib : "whenever a
> figure
>> is created, associate this handler to this event".
>>
>> I think I'll just wait for the keybinding stuff to get refactored,
> which
>> would definitely be a good idea (I only found out via very indirect
>> means, and had to change backend to get them working). It seems
>> worthwhile to have a "q" default binding to exit the plot.
>>
>
> The basic event handling isn't going to be refactored.  I was merely
> speaking of how the default keymaps are set.  Yes, you will need to
> mpl_connect for each figure object.  This is standard for any GUI
> control system.  What you can do is make a function that produces a
> figure for you as well as perform any event connections for you.
>
> Ben Root 

The problem is that I don't usually invoke figure(), I just do
plot(x,y), which will presumably call figure for me. So unless there's
some kind of event that's run after figure is called, I can't have a
generic way of adding my bindings.

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