[Matplotlib-users] changing colors of scatter elements

2007-05-06 Thread John Washakie
Hello all, I'm trying to create a plot in each element in my x,y array have a slightly different color - using spectral for example. My data is a time series, but I am not plotting the time series. I want the older data to show up in a different color from the latest data. What I have so far

[Matplotlib-users] setting scatter colors

2007-05-06 Thread John Washakie
Trying again, a little more detail: I am trying to use the color setting feature of SCATTER: colors=cm.spectral(linespace(0,100,len(x)) then, plotting: scatter(x,y,c=colors) I get the error: TypeError: c must be a matplotlib color arg or a sequence of them But I don't understand. x.shape

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scatter colors

2007-05-06 Thread Eric Firing
John Washakie wrote: Trying again, a little more detail: I am trying to use the color setting feature of SCATTER: colors=cm.spectral(linespace(0,100,len(x)) then, plotting: scatter(x,y,c=colors) I get the error: TypeError: c must be a matplotlib color arg or a sequence of them

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scatter colors

2007-05-06 Thread John Washakie
Eric, Exactly. Thanks for your post. I finally figured it out, and wanted to post here for completeness in case no one followed up, but I'm glad that you did. So yes, the following: scatter(x, y, c=arange(len(x)), cmap=cm.spectral) is exactly what I wanted... except that for my data I had:

[Matplotlib-users] Qt4 backend and subplot configuration tool

2007-05-06 Thread yardbird
Hello, I'm using matplotlib 0.90 + qt4. Everything seems ok, apart from the fact that I cannot see anything when accessing the subplot configuration tool from the plot window. The subplot bars _are_ there, since clicking dragging blindly seems to have effects on the figure, but the sliders