Thanks Jae-Joon, it's working now. And thanks for pointing me to "spine", that's exactly what I was looking for!
Cheers, N On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for reporting this. > The axes class in axes_grid toolkits uses different artists to render > ticks and ticklabels. And some of the features in the original > matplotlib won't work correctly, and the "tick direction" turned out > to be one of them. > > However, I just committed a fix for this to the svn (r7292), so it > should work now. > So, please install mpl from the current svn again, and test it. > Unfortunately, while the ticks are rotated, the pad for tick labels > are not automatically adjusted. > Therefore, you may want to adjust it manually. e.g., > > ax.axis["left"].major_tick_pad = 10 > > I'll try to improve this in the future. > > On the other hand, you may take a look at the recently added "spine" > support in the main matplotlib. > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/spine_placement_demo.html > > If you use spine, than all the ticks & ticklabels feature in mpl will work. > > Regards, > > -JJ > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Nicolas Pinto<nicolas.pi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to get the ticks "out" in the following scripts using > matplotlib > > svn version. Any reason why it's not working ? Should I dig deeper in > > mpl_toolkits ? > > > > # -- Script 1 > > # modified from > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/simple_axisline3.html > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.axislines import Subplot > > > > plt.rc("xtick", direction="out") > > plt.rc("ytick", direction="out") > > > > fig = plt.figure(1, (3,3)) > > > > ax = Subplot(fig, 111) > > fig.add_subplot(ax) > > > > ax.axis["right"].set_visible(False) > > ax.axis["top"].set_visible(False) > > > > plt.show() > > > > # -- EOF > > > > # -- Script 2 > > # modified from > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/simple_axisline2.html > > > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.axislines import SubplotZero > > import numpy as np > > > > plt.rc("xtick", direction="out") > > plt.rc("ytick", direction="out") > > > > fig = plt.figure(1, (4,3)) > > > > # a subplot with two additiona axis, "xzero" and "yzero". "xzero" is > > # y=0 line, and "yzero" is x=0 line. > > ax = SubplotZero(fig, 1, 1, 1) > > fig.add_subplot(ax) > > > > # make xzero axis (horizontal axis line through y=0) visible. > > ax.axis["xzero"].set_visible(True) > > ax.axis["xzero"].label.set_text("Axis Zero") > > > > # make other axis (bottom, top, right) invisible. > > for n in ["bottom", "top", "right"]: > > ax.axis[n].set_visible(False) > > > > xx = np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, 0.01) > > ax.plot(xx, np.sin(xx)) > > > > plt.show() > > > > # -- EOF > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Best regards, > > > > -- > > Nicolas Pinto > > Ph.D. Candidate, Brain & Computer Sciences > > Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA > > http://web.mit.edu/pinto > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Matplotlib-users mailing list > > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > > -- Nicolas Pinto Ph.D. Candidate, Brain & Computer Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA http://web.mit.edu/pinto
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