Coordinates displayed in interactive mode are not good (2.12 and earlier)

[jypeter]

@doutriaux1 when you plot something and then use x.interact() in order to be able to click on the canvas and see the coordinates of the point you are clicking on, you can get slightly or really wrong coordinates. There is probably a wrong scaling factor, because:

• you seem to get correct coordinates if you click on the lon=0, lat=0 point
• the problem gets worse if you use ratio='autot'

I have used the lines at the bottom to generate 2 plots and then get screenshots when I was clicking on the bottom left corner (lon=-180, lat=-90). I have reported the bonus MaskedArrayFutureWarning in CDAT/genutil#14

The coordinates are wrong, but I think the reported values are correct. But you would have to plot some dummy data in order to really check that

Clicking when plotting the whole data

Clicking when zooming on the data with bf.datawc(-90, 90, -120, 0)

Clicking when plotting the whole data and NOT using autot

>>> import cdms2, vcs
>>> f = cdms2.open(vcs.sample_data + '/clt.nc')
>>> clt = f('clt', time=slice(0,1), squeeze=1)
>>> x = vcs.init()
>>> bf = x.createboxfill()
>>> x.plot(bf, clt, ratio='autot')
/home/share/unix_files/cdat/miniconda2/envs/cdatm16/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.py:6385: MaskedArrayFutureWarning: In the future the default for ma.maximum.reduce will be axis=0, not the current None, to match np.maximum.reduce. Explicitly pass 0 or None to silence this warning.
  return self.reduce(a)
/home/share/unix_files/cdat/miniconda2/envs/cdatm16/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/ma/core.py:6385: MaskedArrayFutureWarning: In the future the default for ma.minimum.reduce will be axis=0, not the current None, to match np.minimum.reduce. Explicitly pass 0 or None to silence this warning.
  return self.reduce(a)
<vcs.displayplot.Dp object at 0x2af9b8161a10>
>>> x.interact()
/home/share/unix_files/cdat/miniconda2/envs/cdatm16/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vcs/VTKPlots.py:129: UserWarning: Press 'Q' to exit interactive mode and continue script execution
  "Press 'Q' to exit interactive mode and continue script execution")
>>> x.clear()
>>> bf.datawc(-90, 90, -120, 0)
>>> x.plot(bf, clt, ratio='autot')
<vcs.displayplot.Dp object at 0x2af9b8161b48>
>>> x.interact()

[doutriaux1]

@jypeter I will take a look right away

[doutriaux1]

@danlipsa this is all done in VTK these days. And indeed using ratio=autot leads to completely off values. Mind to take a look. It's coming from VTKPLot.py around line 234

[doutriaux1]

nevermind I found the issue.