I forgot to include the link to the Github compare page in my last message: http://github.com/ajdawson/matplotlib/compare/master...colorbar-extensions Andrew On 16 November 2011 12:19, Andrew Dawson <aj...@gm...> wrote: > I would like some feedback on a new feature I have developed to control > the length of colorbar extension triangles. This is a feature I have > desired for some time, so that the plots I produce with matplotlib can be > more consistent with those produced from other popular plotting software > (e.g., IDL). I have added a new keyword argument, extendfrac, to the > ColorbarBase class. This may be set to a scalar, a two-tuple, the string > 'auto', or the string 'default'. The behaviour of this keyword depends on > the setting of the existing spacing keyword argument. > > For spacing='uniform' or spacing='proportional': > extendfrac=None - sets the lengths of both the minimum and maximum > colorbar extension triangles to 0.05 times the interior colorbar length > (the existing hard-coded setting). > extendfrac='default' - same as None. > extendfrac=FRACTION - sets the lengths of both the minimum and maximum > colorbar extension triangles to the given fraction of the interior colorbar > length. > > For spacing='uniform': > extendfrac='auto' - sets the lengths of both the minimum and maximum > colorbar extension triangles to be the same as the length of the interior > boxes. > > For spacing='proportional': > extendfrac='auto' - sets the length of the minimum colorbar extension > triangle to the length of the left/bottom-most interior box, and the length > of the maximum colorbar extension triangle to the length of the > right/top-most interior box. > extendfrac=(FRACTION1, FRACTION2) - as for FRACTION above but the > minimum and maximum extension triangles may be different lengths. > > This is quite a small modification actually, but it does change the API > for colorbars. I am wondering if this could be included in matplotlib? I > have set up a fork of matplotlib on Github to implement this feature, if > anyone thinks it is worth it... > > Andrew > >