As there was no explicit objection, I just submit this to the trunk. The change in Axes class is rather minor, and I hope others don't mind. I added two examples. The examples are rather lengthy, because they are actually helper classes that I have been playing with (and it is not well documented).
Here is screenshots. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/178748/mpl_aux/axes_divider.png http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/178748/mpl_aux/axes_grid.png I hope others find this useful. Regards, -JJ On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking about slightly modifying the draw() method of the Axes > class, so that user can optionally > calculate the position of the axes at drawing time. It may be > considered as a general version of the apply_aspect() method. > > For example, instead of "self.apply_aspect()" call in the draw > function, we may put something like below. > > if self._axes_locator: > self._axes_locator(self, renderer) > else: > self.apply_aspect() > > where self._axes_locator is a (user-supplied) callable object which > takes the axes itself and the renderer as arguments. > I have been running a similar version of this, and I found it quite > helpful especially when drawing images. Here are a few of my use > cases. > > * colorbar (or any kind of axes) whose location is adjusted to match > the image location (which is calculated on the fly with apply_aspect). > * grid of images (of same size) with fixed space between them. > > I guess the needed change is not significant and I don't think it will > interfere with other things of Axes class. > So, how do others think? > > Regards, > > -JJ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
