Hello all,
I feel like this is possible but I am having trouble figuring it out.
I want to put extra labels on the ticks on the xaxis like in the upper panel of the figure
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/graphics/socfig1.gif
Following http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/demo_parasite_axes2.html doesn’t seem to be the right thing.
It seems that I can get the tick values from
ax= gca()
ax.get_xticks()
and from here do the calculations on what the other labels should be (interpolate the spacecraft position).
but then how do a create another row of labels with the values that compute? For some reason
ax.get_xmajorticklabels()[0].get_text() returns ‘’
Thanks much,
Brian
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Brian,
Tick labels can have multiple lines, so you don't need extra axes. If you don't mind setting the tick locations yourself, then you can do this:
plot([1,2,3])
ax = gca()
ax.set_xticks([0,1,2])
ax.set_xticklabels(['abc\nABC', 'def\nDEF\n123', 'qrz'])
draw() # or show() if you are not in interactive mode
If you need to have the ticks auto-generated using a Locator, then you can write a custom Formatter that does the calculations and generates the multi-line labels.
Eric
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On 09/10/2010 10:54 AM, Brian Larsen wrote:
Hello all,
I feel like this is possible but I am having trouble figuring it out.
I want to put extra labels on the ticks on the xaxis like in the upper
panel of the figure
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/graphics/socfig1.gif
Following
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/demo_parasite_axes2.html
doesn't seem to be the right thing.
It seems that I can get the tick values from
ax= gca()
ax.get_xticks()
and from here do the calculations on what the other labels should be
(interpolate the spacecraft position).
but then how do a create another row of labels with the values that
compute? For some reason
ax.get_xmajorticklabels()[0].get_text() returns ''
Thanks much,
Brian
