[SciPy-User] [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib: Simple legend code no longer works after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

[Jae-Joon Lee]

Although this is quite an old post, one need to set the location again.

e.g.,

lh._loc = 2

Regards,

-JJ


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Warren Weckesser
<warren.weckesser at enthought.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:05 PM, C Barrington-Leigh <cpblpublic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Oops; I just posted this to comp.lang.python, but I wonder whether
>> matplotlib questions are supposed to go to scipy-user?
>
>
>
> How about matplotlib-users at lists.sourceforge.net?  I've cc'ed to that list.
>
> Warren
>
>
>>
>> Here it is:
>> """
>> Before I upgraded to 2.7.2+ / 4 OCt 2011, the following code added a
>> comment line to an axis legend using matplotlib / pylab.
>> Now, the same code makes the legend appear "off-screen", ie way
>> outside the axes limits.
>>
>> Can anyone help? And/or is there a new way to add a title and footer
>> to the legend?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> """
>>
>> from pylab import *
>> plot([0,0],[1,1],label='Ubuntu 11.10')
>> lh=legend(fancybox=True,shadow=False)
>> lh.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)
>>
>> from matplotlib.offsetbox import TextArea, VPacker
>> fontsize=lh.get_texts()[0].get_fontsize()
>> legendcomment=TextArea('extra comments here',
>> textprops=dict(size=fontsize))
>> show()
>> # Looks fine here
>> lh._legend_box = VPacker(pad=5,
>>                         sep=0,
>>                         children=[lh._legend_box,legendcomment],
>>                         align="left")
>> lh._legend_box.set_figure(gcf())
>> draw()
>>
>>
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