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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Event picking does not seem to work on polar bar plots","articleBody":"The minimal example provided below has been tested on Windows 10, Python 3.5.2 (Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 25 2016, 22:01:18) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 ), matplotlib 1.5.3. \r\n\r\nRunning the code below results in events being printed for the Cartesian bar plot, but not for the polar bar plot. Changing the bar plots to scatter plots works for both Cartesian scatter plots and polar scatter plots.\r\n```\r\n\r\n \r\n#!/usr/bin/env python3\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n \r\ndef onpick(event):\r\n    print(event) #Only events from fig2 are shown\r\n    return True\r\nrect=[.1,.1,.8,.8]\r\nfig1 = plt.figure()\r\nax = fig1.add_axes(rect,polar=True)\r\nax.bar(1, 2,   picker=True)\r\nfig1.canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event',onpick)\r\n\r\nfig2 = plt.figure()\r\nax2 = fig2.add_axes(rect,polar=False)\r\nax2.bar(1, 2,  picker=True)\r\nfig2.canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event',onpick)\r\nplt.show()\r\n\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/kasperloopstra1","@type":"Person","name":"kasperloopstra1"},"datePublished":"2016-12-21T13:40:24.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/7655/matplotlib/issues/7655"}