This is something that needs to be fixed in the next release.
Meanwhile, try something like,

cax = grid.cbar_axes[0]
cax.axis["right"].toggle(ticks=True, ticklabels=True, label=True)
cax.set_ylabel("Test")

Regards,

-JJ


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Angus McMorland <amcm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to use an AxesGrid to plot 5 images and a color bar. I can't work
> out how to get labels on the colorbar, and none of the examples shows this.
> Can anyone help? I presume this is a simple thing, once one knows the
> correct command.
> I'm creating the grid using the following code snippet, taking almost
> verbatim from the examples:
> fig = plt.figure()
> grid = AxesGrid(fig, 111, nrows_ncols = (1, 5), axes_pad = 0.05,
> share_all=True, cbar_mode='single', cbar_location='right', cbar_size='15%')
> for i in xrange(5):
>     im = grid[i].imshow(array[i])
> plt.colorbar(im, cax=grid.cbar_axes[0])
> but then it's not clear how to switch on the labels. Things I've tried:
> normal colorbars come with them on by default. I've also found that
> grid.cbar_axes is a list of five elements, each of which is an CbarAxes, for
> which I can't find documentation on the website, and doing
> grid.cbar_axes[0].set_yticks/set_yticklabels on at least the first and last
> elements of the list doesn't work. Can anyone shed light on this? I bet it's
> easy once I know the magic words.
> Thanks,
> Angus.
> --
> AJC McMorland
> Post-doctoral research fellow
> Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
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