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.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_gallery_widgets_multicursor.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_widgets_multicursor.py:


===========
Multicursor
===========

Showing a cursor on multiple plots simultaneously.

This example generates two subplots and on hovering the cursor over data in one
subplot, the values of that datapoint are shown in both respectively.

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.. code-block:: default

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib.widgets import MultiCursor

    t = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
    s1 = np.sin(2*np.pi*t)
    s2 = np.sin(4*np.pi*t)

    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, sharex=True)
    ax1.plot(t, s1)
    ax2.plot(t, s2)

    multi = MultiCursor(fig.canvas, (ax1, ax2), color='r', lw=1)
    plt.show()




.. image:: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_001.png
    :alt: multicursor
    :class: sphx-glr-single-img





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.. admonition:: References

   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
   in this example:

   - `matplotlib.widgets.MultiCursor`


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_widgets_multicursor.py:


.. only :: html

 .. container:: sphx-glr-footer
    :class: sphx-glr-footer-example



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

     :download:`Download Python source code: multicursor.py <multicursor.py>`



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     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: multicursor.ipynb <multicursor.ipynb>`


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 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
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