Thanks for looking into this further.  Can you file a bug with this 
script that appears differently in the PDF/PS/SVG/Agg backends vs. Mac OS X?

Cheers,
Mike

Tony S Yu wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>
>> Which older revision (or release) worked as you expected?
>
> After some digging, I think this issue is caused by an error in the 
> macosx backend (everything works fine with tkagg, qt4agg, and agg). 
> Oddly enough, calling savefig(), instead of show(), with the macosx 
> backend creates the correct plot, but calling savefig() after show() 
> does not.
>
> I'm actually not sure if my code worked for older revisions of the 
> macosx backend (I may have had a different default backend before). 
> The transform code doesn't work with revisions between 7950 and 7625; 
> older versions break the macosx backend on my system (OS X 10.6.1).
>
> -Tony
>
>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Tony S Yu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Awhile back, Jae-Joon helped me transform collection sizes from 
>>> points  to data values by overriding the `get_transform` method of 
>>> a  RegularPolyCollection (see example code below).
>>>
>>> When I tried the code today, the collection didn't appear on the 
>>> plot.  Removing the get_transform method below brings the collection 
>>> back,  but of course, the sizes are not what I want.
>>>
>>> Some simple testing suggests that changing the transform returned 
>>> by  `get_transform` changes the offsets of the collection items. In 
>>> other  words, the transform originally (i.e. in some older revision) 
>>> modified  only the scale of collection items, but now appears to 
>>> modify both the  scale and offset.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to modify only the scale of collection items?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Tony
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm on svn r7950.
>>>
>>> #-----------------
>>> # The squares will not show up with the code below
>>> # Comment out the get_transform method to see squares
>>> # Change scale_x and scale_y to values close to 1 to see how they  
>>> change both scale and offset
>>>
>>> class SquareCollection(collections.RegularPolyCollection):
>>>    """Return a collection of squares."""
>>>
>>>    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>>>        super(SquareCollection, self).__init__(4, rotation=np.pi/4.,  
>>> **kwargs)
>>>
>>>    def get_transform(self):
>>>        """Return transform scaling circle areas to data space."""
>>>        ax = self.axes
>>>        pts2pixels = 72.0 / ax.figure.dpi
>>>        scale_x = pts2pixels * ax.bbox.width / ax.viewLim.width
>>>        scale_y = pts2pixels * ax.bbox.height / ax.viewLim.height
>>>        return transforms.Affine2D().scale(scale_x, scale_y)
>>>
>>> ax = plt.gca()
>>> circle_areas = np.pi * np.ones(4)
>>> xy = [(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1)]
>>> squares = SquareCollection(sizes=circle_areas,
>>>                           offsets=xy, transOffset=ax.transData,
>>>                           facecolor='black')
>>> ax.add_collection(squares, autolim=True)
>>> plt.axis([-0.5, 1.5, -0.5, 1.5])
>>> plt.show()
>>>
>>>
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>> Operations and Engineering Division
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
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>>
>

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Operated by AURA for NASA


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