.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/widgets/mouse_cursor.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_widgets_mouse_cursor.py: ============ Mouse Cursor ============ This example sets an alternative cursor on a figure canvas. Note, this is an interactive example, and must be run to see the effect. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 10-39 .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.backend_tools import Cursors fig, axs = plt.subplots(len(Cursors), figsize=(6, len(Cursors) + 0.5), gridspec_kw={'hspace': 0}) fig.suptitle('Hover over an Axes to see alternate Cursors') for cursor, ax in zip(Cursors, axs): ax.cursor_to_use = cursor ax.text(0.5, 0.5, cursor.name, horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center') ax.set(xticks=[], yticks=[]) def hover(event): if fig.canvas.widgetlock.locked(): # Don't do anything if the zoom/pan tools have been enabled. return fig.canvas.set_cursor( event.inaxes.cursor_to_use if event.inaxes else Cursors.POINTER) fig.canvas.mpl_connect('motion_notify_event', hover) plt.show() .. image-sg:: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_mouse_cursor_001.png :alt: Hover over an Axes to see alternate Cursors :srcset: /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_mouse_cursor_001.png, /gallery/widgets/images/sphx_glr_mouse_cursor_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 40-46 .. admonition:: References The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example: - `matplotlib.backend_bases.FigureCanvasBase.set_cursor` .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_widgets_mouse_cursor.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: mouse_cursor.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: mouse_cursor.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_