Dear Ryan, Thank your very much for your kind reply. I had already a couple of solutions to that problem, and your adds nicely to them!
I am very grateful to everyone who have been so helpful and can assure you will also be formally acknowledged at the conclusion of this project. With warmest regards, 2008/12/1 Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: >> >> Dear ALL, >> >> Is there any example of toggling points on and off a MPL Basemap? I >> see that there matplotlib artists have a handy "set_visible()" method, >> but if I have a map with plotted points and use >> "ax.set_visible(False)", the entire map is made invisible! > > Sorry this took so long, I lost you in my queue. > > You need to first save the results of the command you use to plot the points > (every plotting command returns an object or set of objects that represent > what was added to the plot.). You then call set_visible() on this object. > Your problem was that calling ax.set_visible(False) made the entire Axes > object invisible, which, as you saw, hid the plot. Here's a modified version > of the plotcities example: > > > from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap as Basemap > > m = Basemap() > x, y = [70,30,110,-97,75,-10], [35, 40, 45, 60, -10, -40] > x,y = m(x,y) > m.drawcoastlines() > m.fillcontinents() > pts = m.scatter(x,y,25,marker='o',edgecolors='none',zorder=10) > pts.set_visible(False) #Uncomment to make visible > plt.show() > > Hope this helps, > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan May > Graduate Research Assistant > School of Meteorology > University of Oklahoma > -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti Ecoinformatics Studio P.O. Box 46521, CEP 20551-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRASIL E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://studio.infobio.net Linux Registered User #473524 * Ubuntu User #22717 "Life is complex. It consists of real and imaginary parts." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
