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How to make Matplotlib cursor display without mouse in python with Tkinter

I have one, two, or three plots in a canvas of Tkinter. Let's assume I don't have any Mouse. There only is a keyboard. I want a cursor on these plots that moves at the same horizontal axis on all graphs in the canvas and of course when the Tk window shows up the yellow cursors (mplcursors) on all graphs be at the first point of graphs without any mouse movement and clicks(if you run the following code there are two cursors yellow and green, yellow appears by clicking on the line). The yellow cursors must move together (the same x-axes point) by right/left arrow keys on the keyboard.
from matplotlib.widgets import MultiCursor
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from tkinter import *
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2Tk
import mplcursors
root = Tk()
fig = Figure(figsize=(8,6))
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, sharex=True)
x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, 256, endpoint=True)
y = np.sin(x)
z = np.cos(x)
ax1.plot(x, y, label="sin function")
ax1.legend(loc="upper right")
ax2.plot(x, z, label="cos function")
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig,root)
c1 = mplcursors.cursor(ax1, multiple=False,hover=False,highlight=False,bindings={"toggle_visible": "h", "toggle_enabled": "e","left": "left","right": "right"})
c2 = mplcursors.cursor(ax2, multiple=False,hover=False,highlight=False,bindings={"toggle_visible": "h", "toggle_enabled": "e","left": "left","right": "right"})
multi = MultiCursor(fig.canvas, (ax1, ax2), color='g', lw=0.5, horizOn=True, vertOn=True)
ax2.legend(loc="upper left")
canvas.draw()
#pack canavs
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side = BOTTOM, fill=BOTH, expand=True)
#create Navigation Toolbar
toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas, root) #add to canvas
canvas._tkcanvas.pack(side = TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)
root.mainloop()
Do you have any suggestions? Can I also make the Multi-Cursor (green lines) to move with mplcursors on plots and stick to them too?
I have tried multi-threading from this link, used mouse controlling from this link and getting pixels of first plot points by this question but I couldn't handle the first display event and it needed the mouse to be clicked on both plots separately to show the cursors.
My plots are more complicated, they are signals and I have multiple pages in my application.

The following code does what I wanted But couldn't solve to keep the green Multi-Cursor on the yellow ones! (Exploring yet)
the following code uses MouseEvent and _process_event which clicks on the plot by default, when calling it you should declare when this process happens?, on which plot, in which points!
from matplotlib.widgets import MultiCursor
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from tkinter import *
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2Tk
import mplcursors
import subprocess
from matplotlib.backend_bases import KeyEvent, MouseEvent
import copy
def _process_event(name, ax, coords, *args):
ax.viewLim # unstale viewLim.
if name == "__mouse_click__":
# So that the dragging callbacks don't go crazy.
_process_event("button_press_event", ax, coords, *args)
_process_event("button_release_event", ax, coords, *args)
return
display_coords = ax.transData.transform(coords)
if name in ["button_press_event", "button_release_event",
"motion_notify_event", "scroll_event"]:
event = MouseEvent(name, ax.figure.canvas, *display_coords, *args)
elif name in ["key_press_event", "key_release_event"]:
event = KeyEvent(name, ax.figure.canvas, *args, *display_coords)
else:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown event name {name!r}")
ax.figure.canvas.callbacks.process(name, event)
root = Tk()
fig = Figure(figsize=(8,6))
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=2, sharex=True)
x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, 256, endpoint=True)
y = np.sin(x)
z = np.cos(x)
ax1.plot(x, y, label="sin function")
ax1.legend(loc="upper right")
ax2.plot(x, z, label="cos function")
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig,root)
c1 = mplcursors.cursor(ax1, multiple=False,hover=False,highlight=False,bindings={"toggle_visible": "h", "toggle_enabled": "e","left": "left","right": "right"})
c2 = mplcursors.cursor(ax2, multiple=False,hover=False,highlight=False,bindings={"toggle_visible": "h", "toggle_enabled": "e","left": "left","right": "right"})
multi = MultiCursor(fig.canvas, (ax1, ax2), color='g', lw=0.5, horizOn=True, vertOn=True)
ax2.legend(loc="upper left")
_process_event("__mouse_click__", ax1, (x[0], y[0]), 1)
sel, = c1.selections
c1.add_selection(copy.copy(sel))
_process_event("__mouse_click__", ax2, (x[0], z[0]), 1)
sel2, = c2.selections
c2.add_selection(copy.copy(sel2))
canvas.draw()
#pack canavs
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side = BOTTOM, fill=BOTH, expand=True)
#create Navigation Toolbar
toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas, root) #add to canvas
canvas._tkcanvas.pack(side = TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=True)
root.mainloop()

Unable to get desired output in a Tkinter window for a line graph

I'm new to coding and i'm trying to create a Tkinter window using Matplotlib classes that allows me to manipulate a line graph depicting the share prices for 4 companies over two years in a separate window, this is the code I've written:
from tkinter import *
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import (FigureCanvasTkAgg,NavigationToolbar2Tk)
from matplotlib.backend_bases import key_press_handler
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import pandas as pd
root = Tk ()
data = pd.read_csv('C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\shares.csv')
df = data.iloc[:,:5]
print(df)
print()
fig = Figure( figsize = (20,5) , dpi = 100 )
ax1 = fig.add_subplot()
df.plot('Date',figsize = (20,5), ax = ax1)
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg ( fig , root )
canvas.draw()
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side = TOP, fill = BOTH, expand = 1)
df.plot(kind = 'bar' , ax = ax1)
toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas, root)
toolbar.update()
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side = TOP, fill = BOTH, expand = 1)
def on_key(event):
print('You Pressed {}'.format(event.key))
key_press_handler(event, canvas, toolbar)
canvas.mpl_connect('key_press_event' , on_key)
def Quit():
root.quit()
root.destroy()
return
button = Button(root, text = 'QUIT' , command = Quit )
button.pack ()
root.mainloop()
This is the output I have obtained:
Whereas this is the desired graph:
I would appreciate any input as to how I can fix this, and make my code better.
Thanks :)

Try this it may work
df.plot(kind = 'line' , ax = ax1)
You are ploting bar and your expected output is a line graph

Is it possible to control a matplotlib graph using a Tkinter Scrollbar?

I would like to make an equivalent of the function FuncAnimation from matplotlib.animation, in which I could control the current plotted data using the scrollbar.
Say you have a data array which contains data points to be plotted at each time i. When using FuncAnimation, you first need to define a function ( here animate(i) ) which will be called for each time i = 1 to len(data[:,0]) :
def animate(i):
ax.plot(data[i,:])
anim = FuncAnimation(fig, animate, interval=100, frames=len(data[:,0]))
plt.draw()
plt.show()
but you cannot control the time i, like with a play/stop functionality. What I would like to do is to call the function animate(i), with i being the position of the scrollbar.
I found this example ( using the events from matplotlib:
https://matplotlib.org/3.2.1/users/event_handling.html )
but the mpl_connect doesn't have a "scrollbar_event".
import tkinter
from random import randint
import matplotlib as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import (
FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2Tk)
# Implement the default Matplotlib key bindings.
from matplotlib.backend_bases import key_press_handler
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
root = tkinter.Tk()
root.wm_title("Embedding in Tk")
#create figure
fig = Figure(figsize=(5, 4), dpi=100)
ax = fig.add_axes([0,0,1,1])
ax.imshow(np.array([[0,10],[23,40]]))
#create canvas with figure
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, master=root) # A tk.DrawingArea.
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=tkinter.TOP, fill=tkinter.BOTH, expand=1)
def on_key_press(event):
ax.clear()
ax.imshow(np.array([[randint(0,30),randint(0,30)],[randint(0,30),randint(0,30)]]))
canvas.draw_idle()
key_press_handler(event, canvas)
print("you pressed {}".format(event.key))
#connect canvas to event function
canvas.mpl_connect("key_press_event", on_key_press)
def _quit():
root.quit() # stops mainloop
root.destroy() # this is necessary on Windows to prevent
# Fatal Python Error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
button = tkinter.Button(master=root, text="Quit", command=_quit)
button.pack(side=tkinter.BOTTOM)
tkinter.mainloop()

Actually the scroll functionality is given by matplotlib widgets !!
The example below works fine :
import matplotlib
import tkinter as Tk
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.widgets import Slider
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg
from myPytHeader import *
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
root = Tk.Tk()
root.wm_title("Embedding in TK")
fig = plt.Figure(figsize=(8, 6))
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, root)
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=Tk.TOP, fill=Tk.BOTH, expand=1)
nDt = nbLines("grid.dat")
nDx = nbGridPoints("grid.dat")
grid = np.zeros( (nDt,nDx) ) ; loadData("grid.dat", grid)
valu = np.zeros( (nDt,nDx) ) ; loadData("valu.dat", valu)
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.25)
ax_time = fig.add_axes([0.12, 0.1, 0.78, 0.03])
s_time = Slider(ax_time, 'Time', 0, nDt, valinit=0, valstep=1)
def update(val):
frame = int(s_time.val)
ax.clear()
ax.set(xlim=(-0.05, 1.05), ylim=(-0.05, 1.25))
ax.grid()
ax.scatter(grid[frame,:], valu[frame,:], color='b', marker='.')
fig.canvas.draw_idle()
s_time.on_changed(update)
Tk.mainloop()

After all these years I've found solutions to my problems here, I am in debt !!!
Here is the final solution I came with.
I hope it can be useful to someone someday somehow !!
import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import tkinter as tk
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
from matplotlib.widgets import Slider
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg
# load data
nDt = 1000
nDx = 400
grd = np.zeros( (nDt,nDx) )
val = np.zeros( (nDt,nDx) )
for t in np.arange(nDt):
for x in np.arange(nDx):
grd[t,x] = x / nDx
val[t,x] = (x / nDx) * (t/nDt) * np.sin(10 * 2*np.pi * (t-x)/nDt)
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
root = tk.Tk()
root.wm_title("Embedding in TK")
fig = plt.Figure(figsize=(8, 6))
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, root)
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=1)
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.25)
ax.set(xlim=(-0.05, 1.05), ylim=(-1.05, 1.05))
ax.grid()
scat = ax.scatter(grd[0,:], val[0,:], color='b', marker='.')
ax_time = fig.add_axes([0.12, 0.1, 0.78, 0.03])
s_time = Slider(ax_time, 'Time', 0, nDt, valinit=0, valstep=1)
i_anim = 0
i_relative = 0
i_current = 0
def updateGraph(i):
y_i = val[i,:]
scat.set_offsets(np.c_[grd[i,:], y_i])
def updateFromAnim(i):
global i_anim
global i_current
global i_relative
i_anim = i
i_current = i + i_relative
s_time.set_val(i_current)
updateGraph(i_current)
def updateFromScroll(val):
global i_anim
global i_current
global i_relative
i_relative = int(s_time.val) - i_anim
i_current = int(s_time.val)
updateGraph(i_current)
def onClick():
global anim_running
if anim_running:
anim.event_source.stop()
anim_running = False
else:
anim.event_source.start()
anim_running = True
start_button = tk.Button(root, text="START/STOP", command=onClick)
start_button.pack()
anim_running = True
anim = FuncAnimation(fig, updateFromAnim, interval=100, frames=nDt)
s_time.on_changed(updateFromScroll)
tk.mainloop()

Displaying only Pixel Position and hide Pixel Values in Matplotlib Navigation Toolbar Python

I am trying to plot data on tkinter canvas using matplotlib "imshow()" function. When I am running the code the data is getting plotted onto the canvas and in the navigation toolbar pixel coordinates (x and y coordinates) are getting displayed along with pixel values (in bracket). Issue is I want to display only the pixel coordinates and hide pixel values which is getting displayed in the navigation toolbar.
The code which I am using is:
import tkinter
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import (
FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2Tk)
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import tkinter
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import (
FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2Tk)
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
root = tkinter.Tk()
fig = Figure(figsize=(5, 4), dpi=100)
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0, right=1, top=1, left=0, wspace=0, hspace=0)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
class Formatter(object):
def __init__(self, im):
self.im = im
def __call__(self, x, y):
return 'x={:.01f}, y={:.01f}'.format(x, y)
data = np.random.random((10,10))
im = ax.imshow(data, interpolation='none')
ax.format_coord = Formatter(im)
plt.show()
canvas1 = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, master=root)
canvas1.draw()
toolbar = NavigationToolbar2Tk(canvas1,root)
toolbar.update()
toolbar.pack(side=tkinter.TOP, fill=tkinter.X, padx=8)
canvas1.get_tk_widget().pack(side=tkinter.TOP, fill=tkinter.BOTH, expand=1, padx=10, pady=5)
canvas1._tkcanvas.pack(side=tkinter.TOP, fill=tkinter.BOTH, expand=1, padx=10, pady=5)
root.mainloop()
Kindly suggest how to hide pixel values getting displayed in the navigation toolbar (inside brackets) and display only pixel coordinates (x & y coordinates).

The value in the navigation toolbar is created by the images' format_cursor_data method. You can replace that method to return an empty string.
im = ax.imshow(data, interpolation='none')
im.format_cursor_data = lambda e: ""

One way is to override the method mouse_move:
class Navigator(NavigationToolbar2Tk):
def mouse_move(self, event):
self._set_cursor(event)
if event.inaxes and event.inaxes.get_navigate():
try:
s = event.inaxes.format_coord(event.xdata, event.ydata)
self.set_message(s)
except (ValueError, OverflowError):
pass
else:
self.set_message(self.mode)
...
toolbar = Navigator(canvas1,root)
...

Python: plot shown differently in pyplot than in tkinter?

I wanted to add some comments outside the plots. The code and figures are d below. The problem is that fig2 essentially the same but with the "text1" and "text2" cut off. Can anybody explain why or provide a better solution of adding texts outside the plot? Thanks a lot!
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg
import numpy as np
import Tkinter as Tk
root = Tk.Tk()
x = np.arange(0, 10, 1)
y = np.arange(0, 10, 1)
fig1 = plt.figure()
ax = fig1.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x,y)
textx = ax.get_xlim()[0]
texty = ax.get_ylim()[0]
ydist = ax.get_yticks()[1] - ax.get_yticks()[0]
ax.text(textx, texty-2*ydist, "text1")
ax.text(textx, texty-3*ydist, "text2")
fig1.show()
fig2 = plt.Figure()
ax2 = fig2.add_subplot(111)
ax2.plot(x,y)
textx = ax2.get_xlim()[0]
texty = ax2.get_ylim()[0]
ydist = ax2.get_yticks()[1] - ax2.get_yticks()[0]
ax2.text(textx, texty-2*ydist, "text1")
ax2.text(textx, texty-3*ydist, "text2")
canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig2, master=root)
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack(side=Tk.TOP, fill=Tk.BOTH, expand=1.0)
canvas.show()
canvas.draw()
Tk.mainloop()