Thanks for your suggestion and the patch. However, I'm not very inclined to make such a change any time soon, since that custom axes class is one of my primary motivation (supporting the cuvelinear grid) behind the axes_grid toolkit. And other part of axes_grid toolkit depends on this behavior. On the other hand, I'm trying to make some reorganization effort of the axes_grid toolkit in the future, during which I will try to separate out things that depends on the custom axes.
FYI, note that you can turn off the customized behavior by ax.toggle_axisline(False) http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#axisline This should bring back the original behavior of the matplotlib axes (if it does not, it should be considered a bug). Of course this will disable some of the functionality of the axes_grid. I'm thinking about issuing a warning (about the different behavior from the original matplotlib) whenever axes_grid is imported (optinally turned off using rcparams). This may help others not to wast their time when something does not work. Regards, -JJ On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav...@iki.fi> wrote: > Hi, > > mpl_toolkit.axes_grid.AxesGrid uses a custom axes type as the default > type of axes it creates. I think it might be more user-friendly to use > matplotlib.axes.Axes as the default -- the functionality in basic use > seems to be the same. > > The custom axes handle drawing ticks quite differently from matplotlib's > usual Axes. I just spent an hour wondering why > > > grid[0].xaxis.get_major_ticks()[-1].label.set_horizontalalignment("right") > > had no effect -- the answer is that LocatableAxis draws ticks using a > custom tick artist, and that the correct axis object is in > grid[0].axes["bottom"]. And in fact, it cannot adjust the align of > individual tick labels. > > The AxesGrid is really useful, so I'd suggest the following change: > > --- lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/axes_grid.py.orig 2009-10-27 > 19:51:43.000000000 +0200 > +++ lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/axes_grid.py 2009-10-27 19:52:13.000000000 > +0200 > @@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ > > > if axes_class is None: > - axes_class = LocatableAxes > + axes_class = maxes.Axes > axes_class_args = {} > else: > - if isinstance(axes_class, maxes.Axes): > + if issubclass(axes_class, maxes.Axes): > axes_class_args = {} > else: > axes_class, axes_class_args = axes_class > > -- > Pauli Virtanen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
