On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Hayward
> http://JonathansCorner.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On the two routines I'm modifying from examples, boundaries and borders
> are
> > generally a hefty black.
> >
> > How can I control color and/or thickness and/or turn off items like
> > boundaries that are drawn in black?
>
> There are two borders in question, the figure border and the axes
> border.  Both are rectangle instances.  You can control the figure
> border with the figurePatch instance
>

How do I query/set the figure in question?

I was specifying the axes earlier, and setting a linewidth of 0 seemed to
remove one of two borders (or, from a non-technical perspective, made the
border half as thick). See before.png and after.png: getting closer at
least...

>
> fig.figurePatch.set_edgecolor('white')
> fig.figurePatch.set_linewidth(0.5)
>
> and similarly for the axes axesFrame instance
>
> ax = axes([left, bottom, width, height])
> ax.axesFrame.set_edgecolor('red')
> ax.axesFrame.set_linewidth(0.5)
>
> You can make the frame invisible in a few different ways:
>
>  * set the edgecolor to be the same as the face color
>  * set the linewidth to 0
>  * set the visible property to False (ax.axesFrame.set_visible(False))
>
> JDH
>



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