I am using span selector to identify an area and then highlight in in green. I want the user to be able to validate this (or not) and then select another area (or not). However, when the user selects the alternate area I want the previous instance of axvspan to be deleted/removed. How do I remove this instance? of do I have to delete the whole plot and replot?
Removing the instance is strongly preferred becauase the user may of altered the display using the canvas widgets. f=Figure(figsize=(12,8), dpi=72) a=f.add_subplot(111) ... a.plot(aTime, aDensity, 'k', aTime, aElec, 'b') ... canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(f, master=root) canvas.show() canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=Tk.TOP) ..... def onselect(timemin,timemax): indmin,indmax=npy.searchsorted(glbl.act_time[glbl.newjob],(timemin,timemax)) indmax=min(len(glbl.act_time[glbl.newjob])-1,indmax) thistime=glbl.act_time[glbl.newjob][indmin:indmax] exec("thisDens=glbl.%s_d[%d][indmin:indmax]" % (newcolor, glbl.newjob)) exec("thisElect=glbl.%s_d[%d][indmin:indmax]" % (newcolor, glbl.newjob)) print thisDens #creates a reference green area to validate area chosen lo=glbl.act_time[glbl.newjob][indmin] hi=glbl.act_time[glbl.newjob][indmax] a.axvspan(lo,hi,facecolor='g',alpha=0.5) canvas.show() ... span=SpanSelector(a,onselect,'horizontal',useblit=True, rectprops=dict(alpha=0.5,facecolor='red')) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users