Is there any reason that you need to find out which axes is a color bar axes from the list of axes? Can you just keep references to colorbars you create?
cbar = colorbar() cax = cbar.ax cax is the axes instance of the colobar you just created. Regards, -JJ On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > when plotting a color bar with a plot in matplotlib, the color bar > gets treated internally as Axes. > > With two main plots, each of which comes with a color bar, one structurally > gets > > <class 'matplotlib.figure.Figure'> > <class 'matplotlib.axes.Axes'> > <class 'matplotlib.axes.Axes'> > <class 'matplotlib.axes.Axes'> > <class 'matplotlib.axes.Axes'> > > (that is, a Figure has for childres Axes). To find out which one of > those is a color bar, I basically inspect their children an look for > Arrays with shape (256,), which is what color bars look like. That's > ugly of course, but it kind of works(tm). :) > > I'm having problems, though, with associating color bars with the > specific plot. Can I rely on the rule that an Axes -- if it has a > color bar --, is immediately followed by the corresponding (color bar) > Axes environment? Are there any other properties I could check to > identify color bars? (Tried get_label to no avail.) > > Cheers, > Nico > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
