Mark Bakker wrote: > Hello list (especially Erik, who can fix this I hope) - > > I have had problems with shared axes, especially when one of the axis > has an aspect ratio that is set 'equal'. It has been discussed on the > list before (mostly with Erik Firing), but it hasn't been fixed yet. > What I want to do is have two plots. The top plot has an aspect ratio > that is 'equal'. The idea is to have a contour plot in the top figure, > while the bottom figure gives a cross-sectional picture of what I am > plotting. This used to work well (quite some time ago), including > zooming and such. But now I cannot plot it at all, let alone zoom. > > My first problem is when I add a subplot with a shared x-axis, it > changes the limits on the original x-axis. That seems to be a bug: > ax1 = subplot(211) > plot([1,2,3]) # Now the limits of the x-axis go from 0 to 2. > subplot(212,sharex=ax1) # Now the limits of both x-axis go from 0 to 1. > > After all, the new subplot shares the axis with the existing subplot, so > why doesn't it copy the axis limits from that subplot? > > But the bigger problem occurs when I want the aspect ratio of one of the > first axis to be 'equal'. > > ax1 = subplot(211,aspect='equal') > plot([1,2,3]) > subplot(212,sharex=ax1)
Mark, I made some more changes so that the above works by changing the adjustable to 'datalim'. Have I broken anything? Does this work for your applications? Eric > > The second subplot is added, but the length of the graph is not the same > as for the first subplot. It also resets the xlimits to go from 0 to 1, > as before, which means the first subplot becomes unreadable (it still > enforces 'equal' in the first subplot by changing the limits of the > y-axis). When I now change the limits on the x-axis, the aspect ratio is > not equal anymore > > ax1.set_xlim(0,2) > draw() > > Thanks for your help. I am willing to help in testing any changes. > > Best regards, Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
