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.. only:: html

    .. meta::
        :keywords: codex

    .. 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 three axes split over two different figures.  On
hovering the cursor over data in one subplot, the values of that datapoint are
shown in all axes.

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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(3*np.pi*t)
    s3 = np.sin(4*np.pi*t)

    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, sharex=True)
    ax1.plot(t, s1)
    ax2.plot(t, s2)
    fig, ax3 = plt.subplots()
    ax3.plot(t, s3)

    multi = MultiCursor(None, (ax1, ax2, ax3), color='r', lw=1)
    plt.show()




.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-horizontal


    *

      .. image-sg:: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_001.png
         :alt: multicursor
         :srcset: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_001.png, /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_001_2_0x.png 2.0x
         :class: sphx-glr-multi-img

    *

      .. image-sg:: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_002.png
         :alt: multicursor
         :srcset: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_002.png, /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_multicursor_002_2_0x.png 2.0x
         :class: sphx-glr-multi-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 sphx-glr-footer-example


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

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

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

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


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