I just committed the support of the legend title into the trunk. See the legend_demo3.py. Regards,
-JJ On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > John and Sandro, > > I just had a quick look at the patch. The patch is for older version > of the mpl, and I couldn't test it yet. Anyhow, it should be straight > forward to port it to the new legend class. I'll work on it. > > Meanwhile, below is a little code one may use to put the legend title > w/o modifying the mpl. > > -JJ > > plot([1,2,3]) > plot([2,1,3]) > legend(["test", "test2"]) > > fig = gcf() > ax = gca() > > from matplotlib.offsetbox import TextArea, VPacker > > mylegend=ax.get_legend() > legendtitle=TextArea( "Legend Title", textprops=dict(size=20)) > mylegend._legend_box = VPacker(pad=5, > sep=0, > children=[legendtitle, mylegend._legend_box], > align="center") > mylegend._legend_box.set_figure(fig) > > draw() > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> a friend point me to [1] asking if there's a way to add a title to >>> legend without applying this patch. Well, my answer was "not that I >>> know of" then I start wondering if there's a reason this patch was not >>> applied and there's a plan to do it anytime soon. >>> >>> [1] >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg05678.html >> >> Jae Joon -- will you review this and apply it if it looks like a good >> addition to you >> >> Thanks, >> JDH >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
