Re: [Matplotlib-users] distinct colors in colorbar for linecollection

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

Bernhard,

Are you sure you want a colorbar with lines and not a legend?

A colorbar with lines only, matching a LineCollection, can be done with 
  the facilities in mpl's colorbar.py module; you might take a look at 
the code in that module to see how it is being done in the line contour 
case. Note that ColorbarBase has a method, add_lines, for this. I'm 
sorry I don't have time to be more specific now, though.

Eric

Bernhard Voigt wrote:
> Dear all!
> 
> I'm folowing the line_collection2.py example to create a LineCollection 
> plot with a colorbar.
> How can I force the colorbar to show distinct lines like it does in 
> contour plots for a LineCollection plot?
> 
> Thanks! Bernhard