Thread: [Matplotlib-users] 0.87.7: Ticks are always black

I have a very customized matplotlibrc for rendering charts for web
pages. The biggest change is that I render everything white on black
by default. This has worked fine up through 0.87.5 (the last release I
grabbed) but in 0.87.7, the ticks on the axes are black (the axes
color is white). Am I missing a setting somewhere or is this a bug?

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Guertin <gra...@gm...> writes:
 Karl> I have a very customized matplotlibrc for rendering charts
 Karl> for web pages. The biggest change is that I render
 Karl> everything white on black by default. This has worked fine
 Karl> up through 0.87.5 (the last release I grabbed) but in
 Karl> 0.87.7, the ticks on the axes are black (the axes color is
 Karl> white). Am I missing a setting somewhere or is this a bug?
This looks like it may be a bug introduced by some recent changes
Norbert made to the rc handling, but hard to say.
Make sure matplotlib is picking up the rc file you think it is by
running with --verbose-helpful and if so, send that file along and
we'll take a look.
JDH

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Guertin <gra...@gm...> writes:
>>>>>> 
>
> Karl> I have a very customized matplotlibrc for rendering charts
> Karl> for web pages. The biggest change is that I render
> Karl> everything white on black by default. This has worked fine
> Karl> up through 0.87.5 (the last release I grabbed) but in
> Karl> 0.87.7, the ticks on the axes are black (the axes color is
> Karl> white). Am I missing a setting somewhere or is this a bug?
>
>
> This looks like it may be a bug introduced by some recent changes
> Norbert made to the rc handling, but hard to say.
>
> Make sure matplotlib is picking up the rc file you think it is by
> running with --verbose-helpful and if so, send that file along and
> we'll take a look.
> 
Maybe, there is a connection, but I don't quite understand how it would
come.
Ticks are rendered as linemarkers. They are not filled, so, in the new
version, markeredgecolor should follow the line color automatically. If
you set the line color to white, the tick color should also become white.
Could you send along your matplotlibrc and specify in detail how to
reproduce the problem?