Re: [Matplotlib-users] Border appearance

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Hayward
http://JonathansCorner.com <jon...@po...> wrote:
> On the two routines I'm modifying from examples, boundaries and borders are
> generally a hefty black.
>
> How can I control color and/or thickness and/or turn off items like
> boundaries that are drawn in black?

There are two borders in question, the figure border and the axes
border.  Both are rectangle instances.  You can control the figure
border with the figurePatch instance

fig.figurePatch.set_edgecolor('white')
fig.figurePatch.set_linewidth(0.5)

and similarly for the axes axesFrame instance

ax = axes([left, bottom, width, height])
ax.axesFrame.set_edgecolor('red')
ax.axesFrame.set_linewidth(0.5)

You can make the frame invisible in a few different ways:

 * set the edgecolor to be the same as the face color
 * set the linewidth to 0
 * set the visible property to False (ax.axesFrame.set_visible(False))

JDH