Hi,
I’ve tried placing a legend using the loc = (x,y) … and the legend is moved where I want it. the problem is, when I add new lines to the plot… the legend grows, but upwards… so the lower left point of the legend box is constant… but that’s not the logical way for a legend box to grow… shouldn’t it grow downwards, just like when I use the standard loc = 1 (upper right position) .
Is there a way to change this behaviour?
Well, technically, legend never grows. Whenever you call legend(), a
new legend instance is created and the old one is just destroyed.
Anyhow, as far as I can tell, the (x,y) coordinates given to the *loc*
parameter has been the coordinate of the lower left corner of the
legend (but I don't think this is clearly specified in the
documentation). Therefore, I don't think it is a good idea to make the
legend grow(?) downward while you're supplying a fixed coordinate of
the lower left corner. This is hardly possible and it seems to make
little sense to me.
Anyhow, I just submitted a patch to the svn that add an optional
*bbox_to_anchor* argument for the legend class. This lets you specify
the bbox that the legend will be anchored (the default is the bbox of
the parent).
For example,
legend(loc="upper left", bbox_to_anchor=[0.0, 0.5])
will create an legend with its upper left corner at (0.0, 0.5), and it
will grow downward. Note that when len(bbox_to_anchor)==2, a bbox with
zero width and zero height is created.
I hope this suits your need.
-JJ
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Søren Nielsen <soren.skou.nielsen@...287...> wrote:
I've tried placing a legend using the loc = (x,y) .. and the legend is moved
where I want it. the problem is, when I add new lines to the plot.. the
legend grows, but upwards.. so the lower left point of the legend box is
constant.. but that's not the logical way for a legend box to grow..
shouldn't it grow downwards, just like when I use the standard loc = 1
(upper right position) .
Thanks JJ!
It does, and you are exactly right, letting the legend “grow” downward while holding the value of the lower left corner doesn’t make sense… I tried calculating an offset, but the patch is a much nicer fix!
Soren
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.joon@…287…> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Søren Nielsen > > <soren.skou.nielsen@…2015…87…> wrote:
I’ve tried placing a legend using the loc = (x,y) … and the legend is moved
where I want it. the problem is, when I add new lines to the plot… the
legend grows, but upwards… so the lower left point of the legend box is
constant… but that’s not the logical way for a legend box to grow…
shouldn’t it grow downwards, just like when I use the standard loc = 1
(upper right position) .
Well, technically, legend never grows. Whenever you call legend(), a
new legend instance is created and the old one is just destroyed.
Anyhow, as far as I can tell, the (x,y) coordinates given to the loc
parameter has been the coordinate of the lower left corner of the
legend (but I don’t think this is clearly specified in the
documentation). Therefore, I don’t think it is a good idea to make the
legend grow(?) downward while you’re supplying a fixed coordinate of
the lower left corner. This is hardly possible and it seems to make
little sense to me.
Anyhow, I just submitted a patch to the svn that add an optional
bbox_to_anchor argument for the legend class. This lets you specify
the bbox that the legend will be anchored (the default is the bbox of
the parent).
For example,
legend(loc=“upper left”, bbox_to_anchor=[0.0, 0.5])
will create an legend with its upper left corner at (0.0, 0.5), and it
will grow downward. Note that when len(bbox_to_anchor)==2, a bbox with
zero width and zero height is created.
I hope this suits your need.
-JJ
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