Re: [Matplotlib-users] title and colorbar size

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Petr" == Petr Danecek <da...@uc...> writes:
[...]
>     Petr> 2) When set_aspect() is used, the size of colorbar does not
>     Petr> respect y-dimension of the graph. (See the attached
>     Petr> example.) Is it possible to set the size of the colorbar
>     Petr> directly?

Examples of the shrink kwarg are examples/image_masked.py and 
examples/contour_demo.py.

As an alternative to using the shrink kwarg you can always specify axes 
positions manually.  One example is in examples/multi_image.py. 
Attached is another example modified from image_masked.py.

> 
> One of the examples shows how to do this if I recall correctly, but I
> don't remember which one.  Eric Firing wrote it so I'm sure he'll be
> along shortly to point you to the light.  Eric -- perhaps we should
> also add a snippet to the colorbar docstring since this is a common
> request.

I have added a bit to the docstring to emphasize the function of the 
shrink kwarg.  This will usually be the easiest manual solution to the 
problem.  I have also thought a bit about adding functionality to the 
axes.draw() method that would allow the colorbar height to track the 
height of the mappable axes object; maybe I will try it later.

Eric