[matplotlib-devel] Patchs for changing ticks messing up mplot3d and tick-get/setters

[Erik T. <eri...@gm...>]

I noticed some odd behavior when trying to set ticks on 3d plots made
using mplot3d.Axes3D ... specifically, if you tries to access any of
the 3D axes and change the ticks, it would result in a plot all
squashed to one side (indicating some sort of projection problem).
After a bit of digging, I discovered the source of the problem:
axis.XAxis, the base of the 3D Axis class, calls set_view_interval,
which is not overridden in mplot3d.axis3d.Axis, causing the wrong
interval to get the range assigned when ticks were added.  So the
solution was to implement set_view_interval on the 3D Axis.  That fix
is attached as a diff against the current svn in mpl3d-ticks-fix.diff
.  Now setting ticks seems to work just fine, so I've included another
diff that additionally implements set_?ticks3d and get_?ticks3d
methods for Axes3D - that's attached as
mpl3d-ticks-fix-add-methods.diff .

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Erik Tollerud