Re: [Matplotlib-users] Subplots from existing figures

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

Robin,

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do; is it to recycle axes 
objects that were originally in one or more figures and put them in 
another figure?  It looks like that might be doable if you create the 
new figure, then for each axes call ax.set_figure(newfig), and then for 
each axes call newfig.add_axes(ax).  I would be not the least surprised 
if all this failed, though.

Eric

Robin wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2008 12:04 PM, Robin <ro...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have some functions that produce various figures. This is usually
>> done by calling figure(), then the plot function (eg bar). I save the
>> figure object and pass it out.
>>
>> I would like to be able to collect several figure objects from such
>> functions and collect them as subplots in a single figure for easy
>> printing, comparison. I don't want to change the functions that create
>> them though, because I will also want to view them individually in the
>> future.
>>
>> So given a load of figure objects, how can I make a new figure with
>> each subplot one of the existing figures? (I hope this is clear). Does
>> it matter if the original figure object has been closed? I'm having a
>> look through the help to see if I could find it but it's taking a bit
>> of time and I thought it's probably quite easy if your more familiar
>> with the object structure of matplotlib.
> 
> I'm afraid I haven't been able to make very much progress with this on
> my own. I tried calling get_children on the figure objects I have, and
> then tried calling set_axes with the subplot of a new figure on each
> of the children in the hope that this would bind them over, but after
> playing a bit nothing I've tried seems to work.
> 
> Is it possible to do this, or even if it is is it perhaps too
> complicated/involved to be worth while? (I had hoped it would be
> relatively straightforward once I found the right combination of
> get/set functions to move the plot objects over to the new subplot).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robin
> 
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