Changeset 1029 for trunk/UTIL/PYTHON/planetoplot_v2/ppplot.py

Timestamp:

Sep 5, 2013, 2:28:49 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

aslmd

Message:

UTIL PYTHON planetoplot_v2

• added keywords nxticks nyticks xp yp missing for improved plot settings
• added function to print contents of pp object
• added to ppplot a function figureref to easily set a figure of given size
• bug fix affecting .ppobj objects containing fields with missing values
• bug fix when size of z coordinate do not match field
• bug fix for Ls time coordinates (added changetime=correctls)
• bug fix if not connected to internet
• tidying up examples

File:

• trunk/UTIL/PYTHON/planetoplot_v2/ppplot.py (modified) (7 diffs)

trunk/UTIL/PYTHON/planetoplot_v2/ppplot.py

@@ -187 +187 @@
 # a function for predefined figure sizes
 def figuref(x=16,y=9):
-    mpl.figure(figsize=(x,y))
+    fig = mpl.figure(figsize=(x,y))
+    return fig
 
 # a function to change color lines according to a color map (idea by A. Pottier)
@@ -208 +209 @@
         subv, subh = subv_t[numplot],subh_t[numplot]
     except: 
-        print "!! WARNING !! no preset found from set_multiplot.txt, or this setting file was not found."
+        print "!! WARNING !! (ignore if superpose mode) no preset found from set_multiplot.txt, or this setting file was not found."
         subv = 1 ; subh = numplot
     return subv,subh
@@ -355 +356 @@
                  xmax=None,\
                  ymax=None,\
+                 nxticks=10,\
+                 nyticks=10,\
                  title=""):
         ## what could be defined by the user
@@ -379 +382 @@
         self.xmax = xmax
         self.ymax = ymax
+        self.nxticks = nxticks
+        self.nyticks = nyticks
         ## other useful arguments
         ## ... not used here in ppplot but need to be attached to plot object
@@ -532 +537 @@
         ## set with .div the number of ticks. (is it better than automatic?)
         if not self.logx:
-            ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(self.div/2))
+            ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(self.div/2)) #TBD: with nxticks?
         else:
             print "!! WARNING. in logx mode, ticks are set automatically."
@@ -684 +689 @@
             if self.ymin is not None: ax.set_ybound(lower=self.ymin)
             if self.ymax is not None: ax.set_ybound(upper=self.ymax)
-            # set the number of ticks (hardcoded)
-            ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(10))
+            # set the number of ticks
+            if not self.logx:
+                ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(self.nxticks))
+            else:
+                print "!! WARNING. in logx mode, ticks are set automatically."
             ## specific modulo labels
             if self.modx is not None:
@@ -773 +781 @@
               if self.back in back.keys():
                  print "**** info: loading a background, please wait.",self.back
-                 if self.back not in ["coast","sea"]:   m.warpimage(back[self.back],scale=0.75)
-                 elif self.back == "coast":             m.drawcoastlines()
-                 elif self.back == "sea":               m.drawlsmask(land_color='white',ocean_color='aqua')
+                 if self.back not in ["coast","sea"]:
+                    try: m.warpimage(back[self.back],scale=0.75)
+                    except: print "!! ERROR !! no background image could be loaded. probably not connected to the internet?"
+                 elif self.back == "coast":
+                    m.drawcoastlines()
+                 elif self.back == "sea":
+                    m.drawlsmask(land_color='white',ocean_color='aqua')
               else:
                  print "!! ERROR !! requested background not defined. change name or fill in set_back.txt" ; exit()