OK, I figured out the solution! might be useful for someone so posting it here. It is combination of two solutions from stack Overflow.
Solution 1
Solution 2
I have used ax.format_coord(x,y) to obtain the z value. With ax.format_coord(mouseevent.xdata,mouseevent.ydata) you get the x, y, z values in a string ('x=0.222, y=0.452, z=0.826') from which you can extract the values.(2)
def getz(x,y,ax):
s = ax.format_coord(x,y)
out = ""
for i in range(s.find('z')+2,len(s)-1):
out = out+s[i]
return float(out)
class DataCursor(object):
"""A simple data cursor widget that displays the x,y location of a
matplotlib artist when it is selected."""
def __init__(self, artists, tolerance=5, offsets=(-20, 20),
template='z: %0.2f', display_all=False):
"""Create the data cursor and connect it to the relevant figure.
"artists" is the matplotlib artist or sequence of artists that will be
selected.
"tolerance" is the radius (in points) that the mouse click must be
within to select the artist.
"offsets" is a tuple of (x,y) offsets in points from the selected
point to the displayed annotation box
"template" is the format string to be used. Note: For compatibility
with older versions of python, this uses the old-style (%)
formatting specification.
"display_all" controls whether more than one annotation box will
be shown if there are multiple axes. Only one will be shown
per-axis, regardless.
"""
self.template = template
self.offsets = offsets
self.display_all = display_all
if not cbook.iterable(artists):
artists = [artists]
self.artists = artists
self.axes = tuple(set(art.axes for art in self.artists))
self.figures = tuple(set(ax.figure for ax in self.axes))
self.annotations = {}
for ax in self.axes:
self.annotations[ax] = self.annotate(ax)
for artist in self.artists:
artist.set_picker(tolerance)
for fig in self.figures:
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event', self)
def annotate(self, ax):
"""Draws and hides the annotation box for the given axis "ax"."""
annotation = ax.annotate(self.template, xy=(0, 0), ha='right',
xytext=self.offsets, textcoords='offset points', va='bottom',
bbox=dict(boxstyle='round,pad=0.5', fc='yellow', alpha=0.5),
arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle='->', connectionstyle='arc3,rad=0')
)
annotation.set_visible(False)
return annotation
def __call__(self, event):
"""Intended to be called through "mpl_connect"."""
# Rather than trying to interpolate, just display the clicked coords
# This will only be called if it's within "tolerance", anyway.
x, y = event.mouseevent.xdata, event.mouseevent.ydata
z = getz(x,y,self.axes[0]) # Just a small change here.
# print str(x) + ' ' + str(y) + ' ' + str(z)
annotation = self.annotations[event.artist.axes]
if x is not None:
if not self.display_all:
# Hide any other annotation boxes...
for ann in self.annotations.values():
ann.set_visible(False)
# Update the annotation in the current axis..
annotation.xy = x, y
annotation.set_text(self.template % (z))
annotation.set_visible(True)
event.canvas.draw()
if __name__ == '__main__':
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
plt.figure()
ax = Axes3D(fig)
X = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
Y = np.arange(-5, 5, 0.25)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
R = np.sqrt(X**2 + Y**2)
Z = np.sin(R)
surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1)
DataCursor([surf])
plt.show()
Hope this helps. Thanks!
