On 22 March 2010 11:32, Drain, Theodore R (343P) <theodore.r.dr...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > I'd like to throw another vote in for this feature as well. We have a lot of > cases like this and not being able to zoom to the limits of the window is a > real head ache.
I'd just like to point out that it's the UI that's deceptive: you can actually zoom to the edges by doing just what you'd expect, but the box showing where you're zooming to is wrong. Anne > Back in the old days (when we were maintaining our own plot library), we > solved this by allowing the bounding rectangle to be drawn outside the figure > (assuming the mouse started inside the figure). When the mouse is released, > the limits are reduced by the current axes values before applying the zoom. > Something like: > > - mouse click outside the figure - handle like normal > - mouse click inside the figure - start zooming > - mouse drag - draw zoom box > - mouse leaves figure - keep drawing zoom box (change from current havior) > - mouse release - if mouse is outside figure zoom box started in, reduce zoom > box to limits of axes (change from current behavior) > - zoom > > Hope that helps... > > Ted > ________________________________________ > From: Anne Archibald [aarch...@physics.mcgill.ca] > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:42 PM > To: Jae-Joon Lee > Cc: matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Selecting all the way to the edge of a plot > > On 21 March 2010 18:10, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Anne Archibald <aarch...@physics.mcgill.ca> >> wrote: >>> >>> Often when I want to >>> zoom in, I want to change only (say) the upper x and y limits. >> >> I pushed a change into the svn that enables this, but in a different way >> than you suggested. >> The behavior I implemented is similar to the current behavior of the "pan" >> mode, i.e., if you hold the "x" key pressed during pan/zoom, only the x-axis >> is updated. Same for "y" key. >> I hope this is good for your needs also. > > Well, it's an interesting feature, but it doesn't address the problem > I'm seeing. > > What I'd like to be able to do is, say, to change only the upper x and > y limits, simply click where I want those limits to be and drag right > off the corner of the plot. This actually works, but when I do this > the drag rectangle freezes the moment my pointer leaves the axes, so > that it does not represent the area being zoomed to. > > I've attached a screenshot illustrating the bug. Note where the > pointer is and where the "to be zoomed" rectangle is. > > I use Linux, with the default backend, whatever that is. > > Anne > >> Regards, >> -JJ >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
