On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:37 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:14 AM, C M <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a mpl graph embedded in wxPython, and I call a function, >> customize_plot() to do a number of things to the plot: adjust the >> spacing around it, set the formatters, fontsizes, axis limits, set a >> grid, etc. >> >> Now I want to potentially highlight points (by adding semi-transparent >> points on top of existing ones) or annotate points with user >> interaction. If I do that, it seems I need to call canvas.draw(). >> But when I do that, it redraws the whole canvas and ignores some of >> the formatting I laid out in customize_plot(), specifically the view >> limits, and that's not acceptable. > > This isn't accurate -- calling draw will not change the view limits. > In all likelihood what is happening is that when you add you your > overlay markers, eg by calling "plot" the view limits are getting > updated. You can suppress this with > > ax.set_autoscale_on(False) > ax.plot(overlay_markers) > fig.canvas.draw()
Thank you, that's much easier than the animation option, which would be more than I need to do. Che ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
