[Matplotlib-users] Corrupted axes

[Russell E. O. <ro...@ce...>]

I'm using the class API with TkAgg (and matplotlib 0.87.7) to plot 
cumulative data with a known X range and an unknown Y range. The basic 
code is appended. In summary: it all happens on one Axis on one Figure 
and most of it happens with one Line. I'm running into a few problems:

- If I use frameon=False when creating my Figure then when I set the 
plot X scale the old scale is also shown, resulting in a messy display. 
Two sets of tick labels (old and new) overlap. Simply using frameon=True 
prevents this. Is this a bug or a feature?

- I initially tried frameon=False because the plot frame contains a 
1/16" white border that cuts off the edges of the text of the axis 
labels. Is there an easy way to get rid of that white border?

- I plot data points as they slowly arrive. To do this I get a Line:
        plotLine = self.plotAxis.plot([], [], 'bo')[0]
and then as data comes in, I use set_data to update it:
  plotLine.set_data(focPosArr[:measInd], fwhmArr[:measInd])
This works except that autoscale does *not* occur so I have to manually 
set the Y scale each time.

I am guessing autoscaling is only performed as part of a plot command, 
not as a result of set_data, and perhaps this is a feature (potentially 
useful if lots of data comes in quickly). If so, is there a workaround 
that is preferable to manually setting the Y scale each time?

-- Russell

P.S. I set things up this way:
        plotFig = Figure(figsize=(4,1), frameon=True)
        self.figCanvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(plotFig, sr.master)
        col = gr.getNextCol()
        row = gr.getNextRow()
        self.figCanvas.get_tk_widget().grid(row=0, column=col, 
rowspan=row, sticky="news")
        self.plotAxis = plotFig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)

Then for every "run" of this code I initialize the plot this way:
        self.plotAxis.clear()
        self.plotAxis.set_xlabel("Focus Offset (microns)")
        self.plotAxis.set_ylabel("FWHM (pixels)")
        self.plotAxis.grid(True)
        #self.plotAxis.set_autoscale_on(True)
        self.plotAxis.autoscale_view(scalex=False, scaley=True)
        plotLine = self.plotAxis.plot([], [], 'bo')[0]
        self.plotAxis.set_xlim((minFoc, maxFoc))
        self.figCanvas.draw()

(In not sure if both autoscale commands are needed; the manual is pretty 
vague on this point).