John, They do behave independently. This is about default behavior. Here are some examples (unverified), that assume some standard matplotlib rc file.
Ex 1: No color specified. MPL and matlab result: both line and marker edge have same default color. Ex 2: Set the color with the plot command, e.g. 'r+-' string. matlab result: both marker and line are red. MPL result: line is red, marker remains default blue. Ex 3: Set colors explicitly, e.g. 'ro-', 'markerfacecolor'=[0,1,0] matlab and MPL result: line is red, marker face is green. I **believe** that in MPL the marker edge will remain default blue, since it is not set explicitly. In matlab, the marker edge will pick up the red line color. Both approaches are reasonable, one simply has to know what to expect. In my case, being somewhat new to MPL, I was quite confused by how Ex 2 worked in MPL. Now I know better. The matlab approach requires somewhat less typing typically. -Tony At 8:23 AM -0500 6/29/06, John Hunter wrote: > >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Mannucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tony> John, Thanks for the answer. > > Tony> My prime mistake was to assume that matlab behavior is > Tony> mimicked in matplotlib. (I am not saying it should > Tony> be!). matlab has a Line object and this includes the > Tony> markers. So, what I called "bugs" was based on a false > Tony> expectation. The matlab version of the code will produce > Tony> lines and symbols of the same color. > > Tony> I will spend more time with the matplotlib manual and learn > Tony> the differences with matlab, and make progress that way. > >Hmm, I didn't know matlab behaved this way. I know matlab does have >color, markerfacecolor and margeredgecolor, so I assumed that they >would be controlled independently. So the behavior is > > set(l, 'color', 'red') > >and both the linestyle and markercolor are changed? > > >JDH -- Tony Mannucci Supervisor, Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group Mail-Stop 138-308, Tel > (818) 354-1699 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fax > (818) 393-5115 California Institute of Technology, Email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4800 Oak Grove Drive, http://genesis.jpl.nasa.gov Pasadena, CA 91109 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
