Re: [Matplotlib-users] Arrow with a dashed line

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

> Is it possible to draw an arrow with a dashed line?
>
> I tried using a fancy arrow patch and set the linestyle:
>
> #~~~
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
> fix, ax = plt.subplots()
> ax.set_xlim((-1,5))
> ax.set_ylim((-5,3))
>
> ax.annotate('simple', xy=(2., -1),  xycoords='data',
>             xytext=(100, 60), textcoords='offset points',
>             size=20,
>             arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="simple",
>                             fc="0.6", ec="none", linestyle='dashed',
>                             connectionstyle="arc3,rad=0.3"),
>             )
> plt.show()
> #~~~
>
> But the linestyle argument just gets ignored.
>
> Is there a way to grab the connection path object and then change that to
> a dashed line? Actually, I'm not even sure it's possible to set a linestyle
> for a Path (since dashed lines are normally Line2D). Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> -Tony
>


Nevermind: I though arrowstyle='simple' and arrowstyle='-|>' were the same
thing, but apparently not (I guess one draws the line as a patch, and the
other as a line). So the following works as expected:

#~~~~
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fix, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_xlim((-1,5))
ax.set_ylim((-5,3))

ax.annotate('simple', xy=(2., -1),  xycoords='data',
            xytext=(100, 60), textcoords='offset points',
            size=20,
            arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="-|>",
                            fc="k", ec="k", linestyle='dashed',
                            connectionstyle="arc3,rad=0.3"),
            )
plt.show()
#~~~