Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bug with setting axis limits

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, John Hunter wrote:

> >>>>> "Srinath" == Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> writes:
>
>     Srinath> Hello, I seem to have uncovered a bug in setting/updating
>     Srinath> the axis limits.
>
> limits, you get negative display coords which are undefined.  I am not
> sure this case is common enough to warrant the performance hit of
> detecting it and doing the linear interpolation necessary to add

I have no time right now to go into a technical discussion, but IMHO
this is a serious enough bug that it needs to be fixed. One can only
worry about performance after doing the right thing. It doesn't make
sense to give the completely wrong answer in a shorter time.
[Sorry, I do not mean to sound curt or rude. Excuse me if it sounds that
way.]

Besides whether or not its a common enough situation is very application
specific. I was planning to use matplotlib to display a complex layout.
At the original scale, not much can be seen. There necessarily has to be
a lot of scaling to see the details.

> If you have some ideas on what is the best way to handle this case,
> let me know.

Could you let me know which files in matplotlib have the code in
question? I'll take a look then.

Srinath