Re: [Matplotlib-users] Width of tick lines

[Torsten H. <tor...@gm...>]

Am 21.08.2007 um 10:30 schrieb Eric Firing:

> Torsten Hahn wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am looking for an way to set the width of the tick lines in a  
>> plot.  I have not found any rc parameter for this.
>
> Good point; it does seem to be a gap in the configurability.

Would be nice to have sopmething added in a future release.

>> Doing:
>> plot(...)
>> c=gca()
>> tl=c.get_ticklines()
>> gives a list of tickline objects. Every tickline object has a  
>> method  tl[0].set_linewidth(). Calling this method with different  
>> float  parameters seems to have no effect.
>
> Use tl[0].set_markeredgewidth(); ticks are implemented as markers  
> now to take advantage of backend optimization of marker rendering.   
> No, this is not obvious!

Ok that works but i run into another problem. If you use log or  
loglog plots e.g.

ax = py.subplot(111)
ax.loglog(data)
xtl = ax.get_xticklines()
ytl = ax.get_yticklines()

xtl and ytl are now lists with 2 entrys, one for every axis (for xtl,  
top and bottom x-axis).

top_xtl = xtl[1]

The problem is, that there only the major ticklines are returned by  
ax.get_xticklines(). How do i access (and modify) the minor ticklines?

Torsten.