On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Straw<straw...@astraw.com> wrote:
> I think this would be a good direction, as well. It would also allow > disabling the tick mark labels in some axes that share the same axis -- > because the ticks/labels would belong to the spine, which itself > wouldn't (necessarily) be shared. > > I can't promise anything, but this may be a solution to the issues that > Jae-Joon pointed out w.r.t loglog plots in the spine implementation > (although I suspect they are more general). I'll take a look at it, > although I can't say exactly when I'll do so -- hopefully within the > coming week. If you go this route, you may want to look at abolishing the Tick class entirely -- once the ticks are associated with a spine, we will not need the tick1line, tick2line, label1, label2 instances. We can draw all the ticks along a given spine with a single Line2D object using the marker styles TICKLEFT, TICKRIGHT, TICKUP, and TICKDOWN. We really do not need heterogeneous properties along a given spine, so we are paying a lot to have separate artist instances for each of these things. The tick labels will be a little harder since Text is so complicated, so you might want to punt at the outset and just have the spine hold a list of Text instances, and down the road we can think about a more efficient text collection if necessary. Thinking out loud.... But for nonlinear coordinate systems, where ticks may be oriented in different directions, the single Line2D idea may not work so tread cautiously -- perhaps a line collection for the tick lines.... I am willing to have some breakage in support of this, though we can try to make the top level axes methods accessor (e get_xticklabels) do the intuitive thing. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
