[Matplotlib-users] Save a plot background

2008-11-16 Thread Hrafnkell Pálsson
Hi I haven't managed to save a plot background into buffer to be able to restore it later. I use matplotlib to draw weather maps (see www.belgingur.is), and though the weather constantly changes the outlines of the countries are the same for every picture. Currently I plot the coastlines anew for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Save a plot background

2008-11-16 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Hrafnkell Pálsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I haven't managed to save a plot background into buffer to be able to restore it later. I use matplotlib to draw weather maps (see www.belgingur.is), and though the weather constantly changes the outlines of the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where else to look when tick_label.set_fontsize isn't working

2008-11-16 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Saturday 08 November 2008, John Hunter said something like: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008, John Hunter said something like: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#repo rt-a-problem Sorry,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Where else to look when tick_label.set_fontsize isn't working

2008-11-16 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Saturday 08 November 2008, John Hunter said something like: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Joshua J. Kugler Sorry, I wasn't so much reporting a problem with matplotlib as I was wondering if I was missing something. Turns out I was missing something: it was the x minor tick labels that

[Matplotlib-users] Set Ellipse Linestyle

2008-11-16 Thread B Clowers
I've been trying to set the linestyle of an ellipse with no success.  I keep getting an attribute error whether I try setting the property via accessing the ellipse instance directly or through the artist.  Any ideas? --if you uncomment the line containing the linestyle you should see the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Twin axes share Formatters, but not ticks

2008-11-16 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In opening: Thank you very much to Stan West and John Hunter for their help so far. OK, I've hit either a genuine bug in Matplotlib, or a serious gap in my understanding; probably the latter. If I missed something in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Twin axes share Formatters, but not ticks

2008-11-16 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 16 November 2008, John Hunter said something like: When you share an axis, the formatters and locators are shared as well. I'm not sure if this is idea, but this is the way it is. If you want to turn off the tick labels for ax2, the trick is to make them invisible, because the tick

Re: [Matplotlib-users] More info: Re: Twin axes share Formatters, but not ticks

2008-11-16 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am leaning toward this being a true bug. If you take a look at attached plot (the code for which is where I first noticed this bug), you'll notice that the dates on the top graph (the one with two axis) look a little

Re: [Matplotlib-users] More info: Re: Twin axes share Formatters, but not ticks

2008-11-16 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 16 November 2008, John Hunter said something like: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am leaning toward this being a true bug. If you take a look at attached plot (the code for which is where I first noticed this bug), you'll notice that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set Ellipse Linestyle

2008-11-16 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:32 PM, B Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to set the linestyle of an ellipse with no success. I keep getting an attribute error whether I try setting the property via accessing the ellipse instance directly or through the artist. Any ideas? --if

Re: [Matplotlib-users] More info: Re: Twin axes share Formatters, but not ticks

2008-11-16 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: w/o seeing the code that generated the figure it is hard to know, but the bold look probably arises from rendering the same tick labels twice in the same location, eg if you have a twinx, as it appears you do, but