Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] Is there a way to link axes of imshow plots?

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

On 6/10/10 3:28 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm... 
> <mailto:lee...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...
>     <mailto:ben...@ou...>> wrote:
>     > P.S. - I have found a 'bug' of sorts with using 'box-forced' for
>     Basemap and
>     > AxesGrid.  For the displayed plot, if one were to zoom in on one
>     of the
>     > plots, the other plots will zoom in as well (which I think is
>     neat), but
>     > they won't update their bbox to completely match the zoomed-in
>     axes.  I
>     > guess this would be an argument against using 'box-forced'?
>
>     By default, x-axis is shared along the axes in a same column and
>     y-axis is shared along the axes in a same raw. i.e., in your example,
>     only the y-axis are shared which I think is the source of your issue.
>
>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#axesgrid
>
>     I think what you want is to use share_all=True.
>
>     grid = AxesGrid(fig, 111,
>                    nrows_ncols=(1, 3),
>                    axes_pad=0.1,
>                    share_all=True,
>                    cbar_mode='single',
>                    cbar_pad=0.05,
>                    cbar_size=0.08,
>                    )
>
>     Is this solve your problem?
>     Regards,
>
>     -JJ
>
>
> Not that it was a "problem" per se, just merely an observation I had.  
> Anyway, I tried that and indeed, zooming on one box zoomed all of the 
> other boxes the same way.  Might be good to include in the basemap 
> examples, maybe?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Root

Ben: I've added a new example (fcstmaps_axesgrid.py) that does this.

-Jeff


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