On 02/04/2010 02:02 AM, Sourav K. Mandal wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:04 -0800, Michael Cohen wrote: > >>> One of the most persistent problems I have with matplotlib is finding >>> out which kwargs and args are available for some commands. >>> For instance, I am looking at manipulating axis ticks and labels in >>> mplot3d, so I went to the mplot3d api page, and looked for useful >>> commands and found: >>> >>> set_xlabel(xlabel, fontdict=None, **kwargs)¶ >>> Set xlabel. >>> >>> set_xlim3d(*args, **kwargs)¶ >>> Set 3D x limits. >>> >>> However, there is no information that I can find about "args" and >>> "kwargs" that I can use to figure out how to make my changes. > > Don't these unbound methods just take the same arguments as the bound > methods "xlabels" and "xlim", as given in > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel > > and > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xlim > > ? >
Ok, then I guess I am still not seeing how to accomplish what I'm looking to do. I have a yaxis which has ticks every 0.2, and I need it to be every 0.4. which function do I use to change that? Can I use that function to change the font size of the tick labels? It turns out there's an (undocumented) function called set_xticks in the mplot3d api (I deduced its existence from the existence of xticks in pyplot) but I'm not sure how to work it. I thought it would set the values to place the tickmarks at, so I tried: ax.set_xticks([-0.4,0.0,0.4,0.8]) but that just squashed up the plot. I also need to move the labels around on the 3d plot so they can be clearly seen in the figure. How can I tell the axis label where to be in reference to the axis itself? Cheers Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
