[matplotlib-devel] Re: Adding tables

[John G. <jn...@eu...>]

John,

Thanks for the hints.

First I've tried subscribing to the devel list -- sourceforge is sulking
again, so no joy so far, i've cc'ed the list on this, so if it accepts
posts from non-subcribees it should get there.

I've looked a bit at the transforms stuff + things are making a bit more
sense, but I'm still unable to achieve what I'd like.

I think the basic problem is that Line2D and Rectangle are intended to
draw on the axes, whereas what I'd ideally like to do is draw outside
the axes (see the screenshot i sent originally) -- ie instead of doing
what is done with the legend and have it appear somewhere within the
axes of the plot I'd like the table of data to be outside this.

I was hoping I could do things like specify negative y-positions to draw
below the axes, but I now think I'm deluded in thinking this 'cos
matplotlib is smart and every time something gets drawn the axes are
automagically adjusted to make sure the latest lines/rectangles are
included.

I suspect I need some new sort of object to draw outside the axes - can
you confirm that is the case?

Plan B. would be to just live with putting the tables within the plot,
as per the legend, but this doesn't work too well in general 'cos the
table tends to obscure some important part of the plot.

Let me know if this is still hard to understand and I'll try and get
what I have into a state which demonstrates the problem I am running
into.

John