Re: [Matplotlib-users] Colorbar requires mappable?

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

Ryan,

See examples/colorbar_only.py.  I think it illustrates what you want.

Eric

Ryan May wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In working on creating updating pcolor plots, I noticed that I can't 
> create colorbars (which should be static) without first displaying an 
> image.  I have a fixed Normalize object and colormap, so I would think 
> that the colorbar wouldn't actually need any information from the image 
> itself.
> 
> Is there any to create a colorbar without first actually plotting an 
> image?  If not, is there any reason colorbar couldn't be modified to 
> work using only a norm and a cmap?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
>