Restricting point picking to one axes

set_pickable(False) excludes an axes from the interactive toolbar’s Point Picking tool – a click there behaves as if it missed every axes. Annotate Point resolves to a datum the same way, so it respects this too; Axis Span, Axis Zoom, Pan/Zoom, Annotate, and Annotate Arrow are unaffected, so a figure can restrict picking to a single panel while every other tool still works everywhere. The static image below looks like an ordinary grid – the effect only shows up in interactive=True output, so this is also a live figure in the online docs.

Live figure — pick a tool, then zoom, pan, point-pick or annotate. Nothing is active until a tool is selected.

View this figure’s Vega export ↗ — the raw JSON spec, rendered live by a real Vega engine.

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import numpy as np
import plotpress

x = np.linspace(0, 10, 200)

fig, (left, right) = plotpress.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(7, 3.2))
left.plot(x, np.sin(x), color="#1f77b4")
left.set_title("pickable (default)")
right.plot(x, np.cos(x), color="#d62728")
right.set_title("set_pickable(False)")
right.set_pickable(False)
fig.tight_layout()