Re: [Matplotlib-users] dataLim and getting the data from `scatter` (bonus: an attempt at a Frame class)

[Tony S Yu <to...@MI...>]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 10:10 PM, John Hunter wrote:
> I'd love for you to take the lead on this.  Given my (and other
> developers) constraints on time, we'll have only limited time to help,
> but hopefully we can give you some pointers when you get stuck.

I don't know if I'm the best person to be taking this on, but if no  
one else is interested, then I'd be happy to take a shot at it.

>
>> Current Limitations:
>> ================
>> * the frame can only be placed on the borders of the axes (mainly  
>> because I
>> don't know how to move the tickers anywhere else).
>
> Look at how the transforms are set in the axis.Axis class for the
> tickers - the ticks and labels have "blended transforms" which blend
> data coords and axes coords.

That reminds me: does it make more sense to have the frame as an  
attribute/child of each axis (just as ticks are attributes of each  
axis)? It seemed more appropriate to me, but I just used the `frame`  
in axes because it was already defined.

> It would be extremely useful if
> you could develop and extensible API for axis handling (so one could
> incorporate some of these Tufte extensions and related ideas at the
> *user* level even if they are not built in, though we'd probably
> supply some by default or by example)

I didn't really expect the Tufte-style frames to be incorporated into  
the core; Incidentally, my initial goal was just to play around with  
these Tufte-style frames, not to write a Frame class.

> Keep us posted!

Will do. Thanks for your comments.

-Tony