On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Robin<robi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Jae-Joon Lee<lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If you use the svn version of matplotlib, you may use axes_grid toolkit. >>> >>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#insetlocator > > Wow - this is really amazing. Sometimes it can be a bit frustrating > when I'm working to a deadline to figure out the details of Bbox's and > such but when I find something like this it really makes it worth > while! It does exactly what I want, really easy to use and only took > about 5 lines! (It would be nice if there were some docstrings in > there though :)) > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jae-Joon Lee<lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> However, It is possible to specify the location of the axes in >> normalized axes coordinate. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/16373 > > I'm afraid I didn't really understand how to apply this in my case... > I guess I would have to set the position and everything by hand > instead of using the zoom helper. I preferred to use the zoom helper, > but found the legend loc settings put it slightly too close to the > edge of the surrounding axes for my taste. > > So after checking the docstrings for how to position legends I came up > with something that works, but it required a minor change to the > inset_locator.py to pass the bbox_to_anchor and bbox_transform (it > looks like this was intended since they have None default values): > > robin-mbp-3:~ robince$ diff > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/inset_locator.py > code/scipy_build/matplotlib/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/inset_locator.py > 288c288 > < axes_locator = AnchoredZoomLocator(parent_axes, zoom=zoom, > loc=loc, bbox_to_anchor=bbox_to_anchor,bbox_transform=bbox_transform) > --- >> axes_locator = AnchoredZoomLocator(parent_axes, zoom=zoom, loc=loc) > > With this minor change I get exactly what I want! >
Thanks for the catch. I'll commit the change to the svn soon. By the way, borderpad keyword is meant to do what you want. However, I just found that it does not work sine the option is not properly handled. I'll fix this in the next commit. Regards, -JJ > ax1ins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax1, 3, > bbox_to_anchor=(0.1,0,1,1),bbox_transform=ax1.transAxes, loc=6) > plot_trial_dists(res515[0],8,ax=ax1ins) > ax1ins.set_xlim([5, 50]) > ax1ins.set_ylim([0, 0.04]) > ax1ins.set_xticks([]) > ax1ins.set_yticks([]) > mark_inset(ax1, ax1ins, loc1=2, loc2=4, fc="none", ec="0.5") > > thanks again, this is really terrific! > > Cheers > > Robin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
