Re: [Matplotlib-users] gridlines at 0,0 only

[Vidar G. <vid...@37...>]

===== Original message from John Hunter | Mon, 04 Jul 2005:
> One could add a kwarg to the various plot commands like
> noupdate to suppress updating the datalim,

example?


> Basically, you would like to add string symbol markers to
> scatter, and have them colored with colormaps and support
> variable sizeing as well, right?

yes. i think it would be a useful addition to pylab.


Vidar:
> what approach do you recommend for scaling the marker size
> relative to axis ranges and figure size?

John:
> I'm not sure what you are after here. marker sizes are in points, so
> you can pick the physical sizes you want.

making the plot window smaller, each marker are constant in
size, taking up a larger area when reducing the plot area.
(this is not a big issue though.)


> for gline in ax.get_xgridlines():
>    xmin, xmax = gline.get_xdata()  # both should be the same
>    gline.set_visible(xmin==0.0)    # visible only at x==0

it didn't work at all. i started out with ax = gca(),
started with grids turned on and off.