[matplotlib-devel] putting a legend in its place
I mailed this to the matplotlib-users list, but it never showed, so I'm trying this one. Apologies if it shows up in both places :( What I'm trying to do can be boiled down to the following: I'm trying to place a legend precisely, using the top left corner of legend as the "sticky" point. In other words, if I want to place the legend here: +-+---+ | | | | | legend | | | | | The plot... |---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+ I would have thought that I would set bbox_to_anchor = (0,0,1,1), and loc = (1,1). I found out quickly, though, that this places the legend like this: +---+ | | | legend | | | +-+---+ | | | | | | | The plot... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+ Which makes perfect sense from matplotlib's perspective. So all I need to do is figure out how tall the legend is, and subtract that off the y coordinate before passing 'loc' off to matplotlib's legend. I just can't seem to figure out how to get that number. I tried self.ax.get_legend().get_frame().get_height(), but that just returns 1 all the time. I browsed all through the legend object (a live one) and just can't find any numbers at all that look like the legend width/height, in any coordinate system. I hope I'm missing something obvious! Ascii art is fun! :) -- Daniel Hyams dhy...@gmail.com -- 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-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] putting a legend in its place
I mailed this to the matplotlib-users list, but it never showed, so I'm trying this one. Apologies if it shows up in both places :( What I'm trying to do can be boiled down to the following: I'm trying to place a legend precisely, using the top left corner of legend as the "sticky" point. In other words, if I want to place the legend here: +-+---+ | | | | | legend | | | | | The plot... |---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+ I would have thought that I would set bbox_to_anchor = (0,0,1,1), and loc = (1,1). I found out quickly, though, that this places the legend like this: +---+ | | | legend | | | +-+---+ | | | | | | | The plot... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+ Which makes perfect sense from matplotlib's perspective. So all I need to do is figure out how tall the legend is, and subtract that off the y coordinate before passing 'loc' off to matplotlib's legend. I just can't seem to figure out how to get that number. I tried self.ax.get_legend().get_frame().get_height(), but that just returns 1 all the time. I browsed all through the legend object (a live one) and just can't find any numbers at all that look like the legend width/height, in any coordinate system. I hope I'm missing something obvious! Ascii art is fun! :) -- Daniel Hyams dhy...@gmail.com -- 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-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
