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

[Åke K. <ake...@gm...>]

I added a feature request. It would be awesome to just have an extra tag
whether to include invisible artists.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> 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
>
>