[Matplotlib-users] Rotating an axes instance

2008-06-18 Thread Bryan Fodness
I have an axes instance that I would like to rotate. I see that there is a rotation keyword for text and would like to do something like that with a plot. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting speed

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Barker
Michael Droettboom wrote: so are you working on an example? Or should I? I'm happy to do it, but may not get to it for a few days. My own test was to run simple_plot_fps.py with handle_clip_rectangle (in backend_wx.py) turned on and off. But obviously the wxPython folks will want a more

[Matplotlib-users] Large axis labels/positioning the axes

2008-06-18 Thread David Warde-Farley
Hi folks, I'm using 'yticks' to set labels on the y axis, unfortunately they're rather long strings occasionally. I was wondering if there's a way to tweak the position of the axes within the plot, or better yet to have it automatically push the axes over so that the entire labels fit (I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Large axis labels/positioning the axes

2008-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Warde-Farley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm using 'yticks' to set labels on the y axis, unfortunately they're rather long strings occasionally. I was wondering if there's a way to tweak the position of the axes within the plot, or better yet to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Large axis labels/positioning the axes

2008-06-18 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 18-Jun-08, at 3:17 PM, John Hunter wrote: If you are using subplots, you can move them over using fig = figure() fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2) Works like a charm! Thanks. One more related thing: is there any way to retrieve the size of a textbox in figure coordinates, something

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Radar / Spider Chars

2008-06-18 Thread Curtis Jensen
Nice. Thanks. I had tried to do something similar, but kept getting a curved line between each data point. Also, I too got errors with a previous versions of matplotlib, but 0.98 works. If someone were willing to add Radar plots to the matplotlib functionality, would this be wanted by the users

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting speed

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Barker
Michael Droettboom wrote: Ok -- well, I'm genuinely sorry for wasting your time. No waste. As I said, I'm investigating Graphics Context for other things anyway. Paul Kienzle made a change back in February that changed where wx.Yield() gets called, that by side-effect seems to have fixed

[Matplotlib-users] tesgdal in examples of basemap

2008-06-18 Thread KURT PETERS
I installed the latest gdal with all the latest basemaps and tried to run the testgdal.py program in examples. I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Documents and Settings\kpeters\My Documents\basemap-0.99\examples\testgdal.py, line 19, in module array =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] colorbar

2008-06-18 Thread Ryan May
Yves Revaz wrote: Hi all, When I use: colorbar(orientation='horizontal') the color bar is drawn on the bottom of the corresponding graph. Which option will draw the colorbar on the top of the graph ? I think (correct me if I'm wrong devs) you'll have to use the cax keyword argument to