disabling autoscaling

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#1

So the question is, how can I turn off auto-scaling and just

    > leave the plot window to the specified rectangle
    > [-1.1,1.1]^2 ?

No way in the current release. But it is a good idea so I just added
the "autoscale_on" property to the Axes, which you can use like

  ax.set_autoscale_on(False)

I'm hoping to get a release out tomorrow, but the changes are in CVS.

Checking in lib/matplotlib/axes.py;
/cvsroot/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py,v <-- axes.py
new revision: 1.109; previous revision: 1.108

Thanks for the suggestion,
JDH

#2

Dear John,

    > So the question is, how can I turn off auto-scaling and just
    > leave the plot window to the specified rectangle
    > [-1.1,1.1]^2 ?

No way in the current release. But it is a good idea so I just added
the "autoscale_on" property to the Axes, which you can use like

  ax.set_autoscale_on(False)

Great, I just updated to 0.81 - it works fantastic!

Thanks for the suggestion,

Well, I have to thank you for implementing this
(much faster than I could test this ;-).

Just one more question on this:
is there an even simpler way to activate
this than via
   fig = figure(figsize=(6,6))
   ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8])
   ax.set_autoscale_on(False)
?
For example, could one apply a general
  autoscale(False)
to the following plot(s)/subplots?

Many thanks,

Arnd

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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, John Hunter wrote: