Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d ticklabels

[Philipp A. <fly...@we...>]

2011/2/25 Philipp A. <fly...@we...>

> 2011/2/25 Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>
>
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Philipp A. <fly...@we...> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>> Axes3D from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d does not override set_*ticklabels.
>>> this bug<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2874110&group_id=80706&atid=560720>is about the issue.
>>> to get a crude replacement, i have to do the following:
>>>
>>> for x, s in enumerate(ticks):
>>>> ax.text3D(x, -.1, -.5, s)
>>>> for a in ax.w_xaxis.get_ticklabels():
>>>> a.set_visible(False)
>>>>
>>>
>>>  is there a way to do better and hack my values into the real tick labels
>>> (i bet they are drawn internally the same as text3D, but there is no way to
>>> access the values)?
>>>
>>>
>> In matplotlib in the development branch, I am able to call
>> ax.w_xaxis.set_ticklabels() (or ax.w_yaxis, or ax.w_zaxis) and have the
>> ticks show up appropriately.  I have not tested earlier versions of
>> matplotlib, though.  Which version are you using?
>>
>> Admittedly, the control of the ticks is very poor in mplot3d.  I hope to
>> improve that over the next several months.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>
> i use 0.99.3 both in university and at home, but somehow at home,
> matplotlib complains about ValueError: Unknown projection '3d' at home.
>
> i’ll try 1.0.1 and report if it works.
>

update: i’ll see if a dev build does the trick tomorrow, as a local build of
1.0.1 doesn’t show the x/yticklabels and there doesn’t exist a function
named set_zticklabels.