Several windows and events

Thanks for the solution. That gives me a good starting

    > point for further development. However, now I have a follow
    > up question. Is there a way to return the x and y positions
    > of the button click from the event (out to the main program
    > I mean).

Sure -- just use a class to store the coord data, and implement the
__call__ method so it can be used as a callback

    class Coords:

        def __init__(self):
            self.x, self.y = None, None

        def __str__(self):
            return 'x=%s, y=%s'%(self.x, self.y)

        def __call__(self, event):
            if event.button!=1: return
            x,y = event.xdata, event.ydata
            if x is not None: axzoom.set_xlim(x-0.05, x+0.05)
            if y is not None: axzoom.set_ylim(y-0.05, y+0.05)
            figzoom.canvas.draw()
            self.x, self.y = x, y

    coords = Coords()
    figsrc.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', coords)

Then you can use coords.x and coords.y wherever you want...

JDH