After some testing, it appears to be caused by the use of LaTeX in the
labels which then prevents it from being rotated (but only inside the GTK
application). I have no idea why this is only occurring when it is not in
interactive mode, but I guess for the time being I can just try not to use
LaTeX.
On 19 August 2011 10:57, James McMurray <jamesmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I made this standalone script here: http://pastebin.com/AnKeCwiU and this
> does not suffer from the issue. For comparison here is the plotting function
> in my program: http://pastebin.com/7xxtPQYb
>
> The only major difference is the use of the interactive display in the
> script, against the use of Figure and the GTK canvas in my application.
>
> I am using matplotlib 1.0.1
>
>
> On 19 August 2011 10:28, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 08/18/2011 09:53 PM, James McMurray wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am having a problem where the colorbar labels will never appear
>> > vertically, even when their rotation is specified as "vertical". As you
>> > can see in the screenshot here: http://minus.com/lbOJyOljH this
>> creates
>> > problems when the labels are cut off and generally looks unprofessional.
>> >
>> > I am creating the colorbars with code like:
>> > cbar1.set_label("Lifetime [$\mu$s]", rotation='vertical')
>>
>> I don't understand; even with no kwarg, the label on a vertical colorbar
>> will be vertical. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.
>>
>> What mpl version are you using?
>> Please provide a minimal standalone script showing the problem.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > And yet the specified rotation has no effect.
>> >
>> > Any help would be much appreciated,
>> > James
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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