Re: [Matplotlib-users] Adding-custom-axes-within-a-subplot redux

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, George Nurser <gn...@go...> wrote:
> it seems a pity that
> fig.add_axes can't accept the transform directly.

While this is certainly possible, but it is a bit tricky to get it
correct due to the underlying design of the matplotlib. On the other
hand, I think it solves some problems, but not all. And the
axes_locator attribute in the current matplotlib is an attempt for a
more general solution.
For example, what you want can be achieved with something like below.

from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.inset_locator import InsetPosition
ax= subplot(111)
ax2=axes([0, 0, 0, 0]) # The initial value is ignored in this example
ax2.set_axes_locator(InsetPosition(ax, [0.2, 0.2, 0.4, 0.4]))

Regards,

-JJ