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>>>>> "Flavio" == Flavio Codeco Coelho <fcc...@fi...> writes:
 Flavio> Crystal! But then the legends second example(legend_demo2)
 Flavio> is a bit misleading since it uses the syntax I used
 Flavio> originally (without the subscripts). I am aware of the
 Flavio> difference between the two situations, but my general
 Flavio> point is that since the examples are one of the main
 Flavio> sources of instruction for users, they should be as
 Flavio> complete as possible, i.e. contain as many variations on
 Flavio> the theme as possible, don't you agree? Of course they
 Flavio> should not substitute the prime directive: RTFM!, but they
 Flavio> are a powerful tool that should be explored.
Well, in this case it would be RTNYEFM (RT not-yet-existant FM) so I
would hesitate to advise it. Yes, the difference in your example and
the one in legend_demo2.py is that in the latter the sequence of lines
returned by plot are length 1 whereas in hist they are longer. The
legend code "flattens" the list of lines/patches and so consumes the
sequences in order until the list of labels is exhausted. In your
original example, the patches from the first hist used up all your
labels.
I changed legend_demo2.py to read
l1, = plot(t2, exp(-t2))
l2, l3 = plot(t2, sin(2*pi*t2), '--go', t1, log(1+t1), '.')
l4, = plot(t2, exp(-t2)*sin(2*pi*t2), 'rs-.')
legend( (l2, l4), ('oscillatory', 'damped'), 'upper right')
Adding the commas after l1 and l4 unpack the sequence returned by
plot, so l1 and l4 are now Line2D instances, not a sequence of lines.
This whole business of return values being objects or sequences of
objects is obscured by the fact that 'set' will operate on either,
which is true for matlab, BTW.
JDH

>>>>> "Flavio" == Flavio Codeco Coelho <fcc...@fi...> writes:
 Flavio> Hi, Is there a way to set the color of an histogram? what
 Flavio> about transparency ?
 Flavio> for example:
 Flavio> h=hist(x... set(h,'alpha',0.75)
Of course, not all backends support the alpha channel (eg postscript),
but this is already possible with the agg backend
Here is some example code
 n, binsb, pb = hist(sb, 100,normed=True)
 set(pb, 'facecolor', 'r', 'alpha', 1.0)
Perhaps the problem with your test code above is that histogram
returns a tuple of (counts, bins, patches) and you need to set the
alpha on the patches only.
 Flavio> I would like to superimpose histograms on the same plot
 Flavio> but they would have to be of different colors and be
 Flavio> translucent.
 Flavio> I need to do this in using the matlab interface, not the
 Flavio> API.
Yep, I've done exactly this before using the code above; here's an
example image where one histogram is translucent gray superimposed
over a red histogram
http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/files/share/aptopower.png
JDH

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Groszkowski <pgr...@ge...> writes:
 Peter> seems like axes.plot_date() does not return the lines it
 Peter> creates... by looking at matlab.plot_date(), and comparing
 Peter> those with the case for regular plot() I think it
 Peter> should.. so we have a missing return statement..
Duly noted, fixed. Thanks.
JDH

seems like axes.plot_date() does not return the lines it creates... by 
looking at matlab.plot_date(), and comparing those with the case for 
regular plot() I think it should.. so we have a missing return statement..
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