Re: Problem with Ben's change to preserve axis propers when used with colorbars

[Daniel J Sebald]

David Bateman wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > It seems to work properly for me after the patch, though I find it
> > somewhat strange that
> >
> >   pcolor (peaks ()); colorbar ();
> >
> > produces the first attached plot.
> >
> > I would expect the colorbar to have the same height as the pcolor
> > plot.  It seems to work correctly for the contourf case as shown in
> > the second attached plot.
> >
> > Is this difference caused by splot vs. plot in gnuplot or is it
> > something that we could control without too much effort?
> >   
>
> Yes it is splot versus plot.. Basically the 3D plot from splot with the 
> view for pcolor is such that we can't control the size of the plot 
> correctly. I don't think there is much that we can do, if we keep the 
> pcolor as a surface plot with a particular view. Changing it to an image 
> would fix it, but wouldn't be compatible.

David has that right.  Over the years I lobbied for and wrote some patches for 
making gnuplot 2D and 3D displays more similar so that the two could be folded 
together in terms of similar elements.  One change was to make the method of 
bringing data into 2D and 3D plots the same.  Another I'd hoped for but 
couldn't gather momentum for was making the layout of margins, keys (we'd 
talked of multiple keys), colorboxes, etc. the same code between 2D and 3D.

I'd say don't try to work around this issue.  Instead submit a request to the gnuplot 
sourceforge page or discussion list.  The 2D layout is something I reworked a little way 
back and is likely the better candidate for "proper" behavior.

Dan

PS:  That second plot with contourf looks sharp.