Why are you turning autoscaling off and on?  When you turn it off, the 
autoscale mechanism effectively "ignores" any plots until you turn it 
back on.  If you remove

gca().set_autoscale_on(False)


all seems to work fine.

Is your question that you want to autoscale to a plot after creating it?

Mike

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a problem with my application using Tkinter.
>
> To simplify, here follows a small program showing the encountered problem:
>
> ################
> from pylab import *
>
> a = arange( 10 )
>
> plot( 0.5*a, cos(a) )
>
> gca().set_autoscale_on(False)
>
> plot( a, cos(a), 'r' )
> gca().set_autoscale_on(True)
> show()
> ################
>
> At this time, the problem is that by clicking on the "house" (first button in
> the pylab toolbar), it is impossible to get the two curves completely,
> whereas the "pan/zoom mode" (the cross button) shows that the red curve has
> been drawn completely.
>
> Is there a function to obtain a "true" autoscale, i.e. that looks at all data
> on the plot, and computes the best view?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Julien
>
>
>
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