Re: [Matplotlib-users] disabling autoscaling

[Arnd B. <arn...@we...>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, John Hunter wrote:

> >>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Baecker <arn...@we...> writes:
>
>     Arnd> Just one more question on this: is there an even simpler way
>     Arnd> to activate this than via fig = figure(figsize=(6,6)) ax =
>     Arnd> fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8])
>     Arnd> ax.set_autoscale_on(False) ?  For example, could one apply a
>     Arnd> general autoscale(False) to the following plot(s)/subplots?
>
> I can think of two ways this could be implemented.  Make it an rc
> property, and when any new axes are created they would use the rc
> default.

Personally I don't use rc properties much, only if I can't avoid
them (Reasoning: I want to keep my plot-files portable
from one machine to the other without carrying the rc files
around. Setting rc properties from within the programm
is an alternative, but not _my_ preferred  one).

> Alternatively, one could make it a figure method, which
> would apply to all of its axes.  Eg if you did
>
>   fig.autoscale(False)
>
> then autoscaling would be turned off on all existing axes and would be
> off by default for any new ones created.

I do like this one - does this also mean that autoscale=False
can be given as additional argument to the figure command?
In addition it would be nice to set this type of option
for the subplot command.

> I am not sure if this is a sufficiently useful configuration option to
> justify the extra code.  What do you think?

Well, difficult to estimate from my side, as I don't know how
much extra code it would be.
From  a (=my) user perspective I think it would be nice,
because I have a couple of situations
where one plot should stay with the same range in x and y
whereas another plot next to it should autoscale.

Best,

Arnd