Hello,
I am looking for an way to set the width of the tick lines in a plot. I have not found any rc parameter for this.
Doing:
plot(...)
c=gca()
tl=c.get_ticklines()
gives a list of tickline objects. Every tickline object has a method tl[0].set_linewidth(). Calling this method with different float parameters seems to have no effect.
Thanks for any hint on this,
Torsten.
Torsten Hahn wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for an way to set the width of the tick lines in a plot. I have not found any rc parameter for this.
Good point; it does seem to be a gap in the configurability.
Doing:
plot(...)
c=gca()
tl=c.get_ticklines()gives a list of tickline objects. Every tickline object has a method tl[0].set_linewidth(). Calling this method with different float parameters seems to have no effect.
Use tl[0].set_markeredgewidth(); ticks are implemented as markers now to take advantage of backend optimization of marker rendering. No, this is not obvious!
Eric
Torsten Hahn wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for an way to set the width of the tick lines in a plot. I have not found any rc parameter for this.Good point; it does seem to be a gap in the configurability.
Would be nice to have sopmething added in a future release.
Doing:
plot(...)
c=gca()
tl=c.get_ticklines()
gives a list of tickline objects. Every tickline object has a method tl[0].set_linewidth(). Calling this method with different float parameters seems to have no effect.Use tl[0].set_markeredgewidth(); ticks are implemented as markers now to take advantage of backend optimization of marker rendering. No, this is not obvious!
Ok that works but i run into another problem. If you use log or loglog plots e.g.
ax = py.subplot(111)
ax.loglog(data)
xtl = ax.get_xticklines()
ytl = ax.get_yticklines()
xtl and ytl are now lists with 2 entrys, one for every axis (for xtl, top and bottom x-axis).
top_xtl = xtl[1]
The problem is, that there only the major ticklines are returned by ax.get_xticklines(). How do i access (and modify) the minor ticklines?
Torsten.
Am 21.08.2007 um 10:30 schrieb Eric Firing:
In [80]: for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
print tick.tick1line, tick.tick2line
....:
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
Line2D((0,0)) Line2D((0,1))
In [82]: for tick in ax.xaxis.get_minor_ticks():
print tick.tick1line, tick.tick2line
....:
for the xaxis, tick1line is the left tick, tick2line is the right
tick. for the y axis they are the bottom and top.
Here is the help on the tick attrs:
In [85]: from matplotlib.axis import Tick
In [87]: print Tick.__doc__
Abstract base class for the axis ticks, grid lines and labels
1 refers to the bottom of the plot for xticks and the left for yticks
2 refers to the top of the plot for xticks and the right for yticks
Publicly accessible attributes
tick1line : a Line2D instance
tick2line : a Line2D instance
gridline : a Line2D instance
label1 : a Text instance
label2 : a Text instance
gridOn : a boolean which determines whether to draw the tickline
tick1On : a boolean which determines whether to draw the 1st tickline
tick2On : a boolean which determines whether to draw the 2nd tickline
label1On : a boolean which determines whether to draw tick label
label2On : a boolean which determines whether to draw tick label
On 8/21/07, Torsten Hahn <torsten.hahn@...1704...> wrote:
The problem is, that there only the major ticklines are returned by
ax.get_xticklines(). How do i access (and modify) the minor ticklines?