[matplotlib-devel] Adding Matlab's fplot to Axes

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

Hello all,

So, as per Philip's suggestion
(https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/737) I've started
encapsulating fplot functionality into a class. The point of this is so
that the user can call either of the following:

FPlot_instance = ax.fplot(f, [x0, y0, x1, y1])
ax.fplot(FPlot_instance, ...)

Each of these is valid. The first does 'the obvious', as seen in the
closed PR above. The second takes an instance of an FPlot object,
presumably the user would also pass new limits to, say, zoom out. Then
the plot is updated as necessary. This was also Philip's suggestion and
there is a nice working example of changing the limits of a plot to get
a more highly resolved image in examples/event_handling/viewlims.py

I haven't put in a new pull request because I can't decide which of
these methods is better. In short, the viewlims.py example uses a
callback to adjust the plot if the user calls set_xlim or set_ylim.
Would it be sensible to use a callback for fplot buried in the FPlot
class or use my initial thought, which is to pass in a new tuple
describing the new axes limits and update if necessary?

The code isn't complete so I'm reluctant to file a new PR, but if there
is overwhelming desire for people to see the code (perhaps due to my
poor explanation) then I'll open a new PR so everyone can give their two
pence.

Suggestions welcome :)

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