Re: [Matplotlib-users] Exclude invisible artists from a relim() and autoscale_view()?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Åke Kullenberg <ake...@gm...>wrote:

> I am using matplotlib in a wxpython application where series are added
> dynamically to subplots in a figure. I added the very handy option to toggle
> series' visibility (by calling set_visible(False). The catch is however that
> the invisible series are included in the rescaling of the artists (Line2D
> all of them). Is there any way to fix that? The behavior I'm after is for
> rescaling to be based on visible artists only.
>
> The way I am doing the rescaling currently is simply by calling these two
> methods from the event handler:
>
> event.inaxes.relim()
> event.inaxes.autoscale_view(tight=None, scalex=False, scaley=True)
>
>
This might be a good feature request to make (if it hasn't already...):

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80706

I would like to add one caveat, however.  There are some cases where one
would want to include the bounding boxes of the invisible artist elements in
determining the axes limits.  A particular use case would be animations.  I
believe that matplotlib would be best served by having a simple option
available to let the user determine if they want to include invisible
artists or not.

Ben Root