On 2012/09/16 8:54 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseab...@gmail.com > <mailto:jsseab...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Is there a way to overwrite suptitle? When using 3rd party libs that > return a figure, if they set suptitle and don't give you the text > object back then you can't overwrite it? This doesn't seem right to > me. > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10559144/matplotlib-suptitle-prints-over-old-title > > Skipper > > > Correct, this still seems to be the case. Looking at the code in > figure.py, the suptitle() function just creates a text object and places > it at a default location. Then it simply returns the object without > saving a reference to it being a figure title. The only reference kept > is in the self.texts list that it keeps. I see no reason why it has to > be this way, though, and would certainly welcome a patch to fix this > oversight (would make the code involving bbox_tight to be more simple, I > think.
OK, I guess I see the problem now: Figure.suptitle really should be able to replace a prior suptitle, and the most straightforward way to facilitate this is with an explicit reference kept by the Figure. Eric > > Ben Root > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
