Adam, I agree that the Circle ended up with a rectangle in the legend, which I wouldn't think of as the expected response. Would the following work for your purposes?
figure() p,=plot(0,0,marker='o',ls='',color='red') legend([p], ["Red Rectangle"],numpoints=1) p.remove() draw() -Sterling On Apr 11, 2014, at 8:14AM, Adam Hughes wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I tried out the legend proxy artist, and it works for rectangles in the > legend, but I can't seem to get a Circle to appear in the legend, which I > presume should be: > > p = Circle((0, 0), fc="r") > legend([p], ["Red Rectangle"]) > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Adam Hughes <hughesada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Paul, I will try it out. > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Paul Hobson <pmhob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Adam Hughes <hughesada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. That's probably the way I'll go. At first, I thought creating > separate legend markers and removing them from the plot seemed hacky, but I > guess there's no way that matplotlib could know which legend size I want. I > wonder if there'd be any interest in a PR to add a keyword to legend to > handle this situation? > > Why not just work the other way around with proxy artists. IOW, make the > artists but never add them to the plot. > > http://matplotlib.org/users/legend_guide.html?highlight=proxy%20artists#using-proxy-artist > (works with Line2D artists) > > -p > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Sterling Smith <smit...@fusion.gat.com> wrote: > Adam, > > I haven't investigated, but does the discussion of the legend marker at [1] > help? > > -Sterling > > [1] > https://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg25200.html > > On Apr 8, 2014, at 3:44PM, Adam Hughes wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've been searching but can't seem to find this topic addressed (perhaps > > wrong search terms) > > > > Simply put, I have a scatter plot with variable size markers, and I'd like > > to have the markers all be a single size in the legend. Is there a > > standard way to do this? > > > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Put Bad Developers to Shame > > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_______________________________________________ > > Matplotlib-users mailing list > > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
