[Matplotlib-users] tick mark question

Hello, I;m not sure how to access the tick attributes listed below.  I
tried the following:

    #turn off ticks    
    xticks  = axes.xaxis.get_major_ticks()
    xticks.tick1On  =   False
    xticks.tick2On  =   False

this doesn't seem to work. How do I access these attributes? Thanks.

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hunter [mailto:jdh...@ni...] 
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:12 AM
To: Jeff Peery
Cc: mat...@li...
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] transparent symbols

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Peery <jef...@se...> writes:

    Jeff> Great thank you.  One more question. I also want to change
    Jeff> the tick mark attributes like color, fontsize, rotation
    Jeff> etc. I used these lines of code:


    axesA.set_yticklabels(axesA.get_xticklabels(), rotation=0, ....
              ^                     ^

Not your question, but are you mixing up x and y here?

    Jeff> I get an error because get_ticklabels() returns an instance
    Jeff> of label strings, not the strings themselves. How can I
    Jeff> convert these into a useful string so the above code works?
    Jeff> Or is there a better way to do this?

There are several ways to customize these properties.  One way is to
get a list of ticks and then customize them


    xticks = ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks()

    labels = [xtick.label1 for xtick in xticks]
    lines =  [xtick.tick1line for xtick in xticks]

    setp(lines, linewidth=2)
    setp(labels, color='red', fontsize=20)

The Tick instances have the following attributes, as detailed here
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.axis.html#Tick

      tick1line  : a Line2D instance
      tick2line  : a Line2D instance
      gridline   : a Line2D instance
      label1     : a Text instance
      label2     : a Text instance
      gridOn     : a boolean which determines whether to draw the
tickline
      tick1On    : a boolean which determines whether to draw the 1st
tickline
      tick2On    : a boolean which determines whether to draw the 2nd
tickline
      label1On   : a boolean which determines whether to draw tick label
      label2On   : a boolean which determines whether to draw tick label

JDH