Just wanted to let people know that I chased down the problem I was having.
The command I was using was working, but I wrongly assumed the coordinate
system was normalized for some reason. Doing things like:
fig.canvas.button_press_event(110, 240, 1, False, None)
works great!
Cheers,
Eric
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Eric89GXL <larson.eri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some some matplotlib code that we use for interactive plotting, and
> I
> want to do non-interactive unit testing. This means I need to emulate
> keypresses and mouse clicks.
>
> It is simple enough to do keypress unit testing by using:
>
> fig.canvas.key_press_event('down')
>
> This for example allows us to test that pressing "down" in a figure window
> elicits the appropriate behavior.
>
> However, I am having difficulty testing mouse clicks. We have behaviors
> where users can click within an axis (e.g., fix.axes[1]) to elicit some
> behavior. I have tried the following:
>
> fig.canvas.button_press_event(0.5, 0.5, 1)
>
> But within the event handler (which generally has structure
> _mouse_click(event, params)), the "event" object does not have the
> "event.inaxes" field populated correctly (it is always "None") despite my
> emulated click @ (0.5, 0.5) sitting within one of the axes in the figure.
>
> Does anyone know how to emulate either of these types of clicks?
>
>
>
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