Re: [Matplotlib-users] Feature request: automatic scaling of subplots, margins, etc

Hi Jae-Loon,

thanks for your comments! Of course I do agree that a figure layout
should not change in interactive mode. However, I don't see why this
should happen upon a panning action. A different case is when the
label or title font sizes are changed, but I was assuming this is
adjusted prior to the creation of the figure.

For the time being I am very happy with Tony's solution. It works nice
most of the time, only very complex figures take forever now to be
drawn.

The current behavior *looks* broken to any user who does not
understand the internals. And it's too likely that even simple figures
look horrible. I'd definitely vote for a more end-user friendly
solution (with end users I have scientific users in mind who generally
appreciate the beauty of the generated plots but who don't integrated
the library into some other application).

Best regards,
Daniel

2011/5/11 Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...>:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Mader
> <dan...@go...> wrote:
>> From many postings here I have learned that
>> this is the absolute intention, i.e. it is broken by design unless the
>> programmer takes care about this.
>
> I think there are pros and cons, and I don't think the current design
> is simply broken.
> For example, it will be very distracting if the axes area changes
> while you're doing some interactive stuff (e.g., panning). Anyhow I
> admit that the default layout may not be optimal for figures with
> multiple subplots, and there is a room for improvement.
>
> There are a few approach you can take.
>
>  * If you're only interested in saved outputs, you may use savefig
> with bbox_inches="tight". Note that this changes the size of figure.
>
>  * Use Tony's script to adjust the subplot params automatically.
>
>  * use axes_grid1 toolkit which enables you to change the axes
> position on the fly. Check
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg18743.html.
> For current git master branch, check
> examples/axes_grid/make_room_for_ylabel_using_axesgrid.py
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>