Re: [Matplotlib-users] Labels for ticks on the colorbar?

[Abhinav V. <abh...@gm...>]

Hi,

I need the same, and I did not understood the example.

I have an imageplot with imshow and in the colorbar in donot wish to have
values but text strings.

can someone give me a small example to work on.

thanks,

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:34 PM, John R. Dowdle <jrd...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Is is possible to customize the labels for the ticks of the colorbar?
>  If so,
> >  could someone please explain how this may be accomplished?
>
> The colorbar method returns a matplotlib.colorbar.Colorbar instance,
> which contains a matplotlib.axes.Axes instance named "ax" (this is the
> axes of the colorbar).  I'm freestyling here, so there could be a
> typo, but here is the idea:
>
> cb = fig.colorbar(something)
> for ticklabel in cb.ax.get_yticklabels():
>   ticklabel.set_color('red')  # the ticklabels are
> matplotlib.text.Text instances
>
> See http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.text.html and
> http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.axes.html for details on the Text
> and Axes methods that are available to you.  You can set all kinds of
> attributes on the Text instance (font style, fontsize, font weight,
> color, etc...)
>
> JDH
>
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