Re: [Matplotlib-users] Crash in CVS

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:

    Charles> Yes, I've just started using python2.3, which is almost
    Charles> certainly the source of the deprecation warnings.

    Charles> And yes, I had passed an integer to the text label
    Charles> command. The crash seems a bit harsh, but at least I can
    Charles> avoid that now.

I've added an automatic string conversion in the set ticklabels
functionality, so that any object that can be converted to a string
with %s will work as an argument to the ticklabels command.

    Charles> I generated a graph with 8 subplots (histograms). I
    Charles> wasn't able to use the title command on the subplots,
    Charles> because the title appeared on top of the plot above
    Charles> it. And I haven't yet figured out how to give the plot an
    Charles> overall title. I'm happy for hints if you have the
    Charles> time. Otherwise I'm fairly happy with what I've got
    Charles> (titles inside each subplot, via the text command, and no
    Charles> overall title).

I've needed this functionality too.  I just followed matlab's design
which is to add the title to the current axes.  In CVS, I've added a
new figure text function to the class API for Figure.  The figure text
is in relative 0-1 coords (0,0 is lower left; 1,1 is upper right).
You can add a title with

  gcf().text(0.5, 0.95, 'Figure Title', fontsize=12)
 
You can also add text anywhere else you want in figure coordinates
with this command (axis text is in data coordinates).  In the examples
dir in CVS there is a file figtext.py that illustrates this.  Perhaps
I'll add a new function figtitle to the matlab functional interface
since this comes up fairly often.

    Charles> Thanks! This is great!

Your welcome!

John Hunter