The GUI plots the x/y position of the cursor in data coordinates using scientific notation including only three significant digits (ie x=7.24e+03, y=20.2). The scientific notation is annoying but the lack of significant digits (ie 7.2457e+03) makes it impossible to fully use the GUI for interactive analyses. It would be nice if the cursor position denoted by the gui used the same coordinate formatting that the current axes use. Thus, if my axes are set to use something like 7.2f formatting for values less than 1e5, the cursor coordinate would be displayed in the same way (and instead of x=7.24e+03,y=20.1 the gui would read x=7245.70,y=20.1 when the cursor is at that coordinate position).
I hope this clears things up! Matt On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Darren Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 7:40:18 pm Matthew Auger wrote: >> We are starting to use matplotlib to do some analysis of our data, but we >> are hampered by the unfortunate choice of significant digits in the GUI. >> I hacked the backends for 0.87.7 to display (many) more significant >> digits and I was wondering if anyone had any better suggestions (ie that I >> could implement directly into my code so others wouldn't need to >> continually hack their backends). Perhaps the GUI should follow the >> formatting of the axes? (Though this would again require a change to the >> backend....) > > Could you be more specific? In what ways are you currently limited, and how > would you like matplotlib to behave? > > Darren > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
