Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing on a figure, not a subplot

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM, John Ladasky
<joh...@sb...> wrote:

> Now I would like to add the axis lines and arrows.  In fact, I would
> prefer a FancyArrow object.
>
> I can see how to add non-text objects to an Axes, e.g.:
>
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> ax.add_patch(my_arrow)
>
> But that isn't my goal here.  I want to add lines to the FIGURE, outside
> of any Axes.  Does anyone know how to accomplish this?  Thanks!

The artist tutorial covers drawing directly to a figure

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/artists.html#figure-container

I believe you could adapt the patches.FancyArrow to the same approach.

JDH