On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 11, 2012, Damon McDougall wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, rand0m <ran...@0x06.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm new to matplotlib and I hope you can help me out with my question. >> >> When drawing for example a Rectangle() I have to specify it like the >> >> following: >> >> rect = Rectangle((1, 3), 2, 20, facecolor="#aaaaaa") >> >> >> >> Where 2 is the length and 20 is the height. (1,3) is for xy. >> >> >> >> Imagine a coordination system where x-axis should represent the value 0 >> >> to 100. I would like to draw the rectangle from 50 to 60 on x-axis. So >> >> I would specify: >> >> >> >> rect = Rectangle((50, 3), 10, 20, facecolor="#aaaaaa") >> >> >> >> But this does not work as desired because at the xtick 50 the x-axis >> >> does not "hold" the value 50 but 5 because I made xticks 1-100 with >> >> step >> >> 10. So my x-axis "holds" the values 1-10. But I need 1-100. >> >> >> >> If anyone knows what Im missing I d be glad to hear about it :-). >> >> >> >> thank you >> >> >> > >> > I am not quite sure I understand what you mean. Can you attach an image >> > of >> > the plot you made so far? >> > >> > Ben Root >> >> I'm not sure if adding a patch autoscales the view, try >> >> rect = Rectangle((50, 3), 10, 20, facecolor="#aaaaaa") >> ax.add_patch(rect) >> ax.set_xlim(0, 100) >> ax.set_ylim(0, 25) >> > > We managed to solve it, but apparently it was off-list. Essentially, I > showed him how to use a MultipleLocator to control the axis ticks, rather > than labeling them manually at a different scale. > > Ben Root
I thought that might have been the problem. Cheers for the follow-up Ben. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com B2.39 Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry West Midlands CV4 7AL United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
