a doughnut to the developer who can figure this one out for me! If you resize the figure window slightly, the alpha channel gets whacked on the rectangles. This only happens if the legend is added to the axes -- comment that out and the alpha channel is fine. I suspect we are screwing up somewhere in the way we copy properties from legended objects to their legend proxies (ie we are reversing this somewhere and copying properties from a proxy to the axes
The problem is in svn and probably earlier releases but I haven't tested. from pylab import figure, show, cm, nx from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle fig = figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, axisbelow=True) ax.grid(True) ax.plot([1,2,3,4,5,6,7]) ax.axvspan(1,2, facecolor='red', alpha=0.5) ax.axvspan(3,4, facecolor='green', alpha=0.5) red = Rectangle((0,0), 1, 1, facecolor='red', alpha=0.5) green = Rectangle((0,0), 1, 1, facecolor='green', alpha=0.5) # comment out next line and bug goes away! ax.legend((red, green), ('red', 'green'), loc='best') show() ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel