Daniel Hyams, on 2010-10-29 23:48, wrote: > Thanks Paul! Your suggestion got me part of the way, but I've run > into another problem...I'm using draggable legends, I'm also wanting > to fetch the current position of the legend after a drag. The > draggable legend always updates 'loc', and not 'bbox_to_anchor', so > I'm afraid that I'm stuck manipulating 'loc' for my purposes and not > the bbox_to_anchor property. > > Is there really no way to get the dimensions of a legend? It has to be > there somewhere, otherwise the legend wouldn't know where to draw > itself ;)
Hi Daniel, I'm replying to the list, so that someone correct me if I'm wrong, or point out a better way of doing this. there totally is a way to get the dimensions of a legend. You can get it in pixel coordinates using l = plt.legend() bbox = l.get_window_extent() bbox.width,bbox.height or in axes coordinates using something like bbox2 = bbox.transformed(l.axes.transAxes.inverted()) bbox2.width,bbox2.height The bboxes have other handy attributes like p0,p1,x0,x1,y0,y1 etc, as well as methods like bbox.padded(), etc. best, -- Paul Ivanov 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
