allow webAgg to report middle click events

ianhi · ianhi · commit 846b8eacec01 · 2020-08-04T16:50:35.000-04:00
The current MouseEvent docstring has no mention of this issue so I did not remove anything there. This code was originally added to account for difficulties in preventing the context menu in chrome 23 #1426 (comment)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_webagg_core.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_webagg_core.py
@@ -260,14 +260,6 @@ def _handle_mouse(self, event):
         # off by 1
         button = event['button'] + 1
 
-        # The right mouse button pops up a context menu, which
-        # doesn't work very well, so use the middle mouse button
-        # instead.  It doesn't seem that it's possible to disable
-        # the context menu in recent versions of Chrome.  If this
-        # is resolved, please also adjust the docstring in MouseEvent.
-        if button == 2:
-            button = 3
-
         e_type = event['type']
         guiEvent = event.get('guiEvent', None)
         if e_type == 'button_press':
