Modify plots

[hilarych]

Hi Malcolm, is there a way to modify figures created by the .plot() function currently?
I just want to modify the title or add something to the plot.
I am wondering can the function return the created ax or fig instance so we can put it in another figure?

[malcolmw]

Hi, @hilarych, It currently returns the created Axes object. You can always get the Axes or Figure object using the plt.gca() and plt.gcf() functions, respectively.

We can also update the method to, for example, accept ax as a keyword argument and create the plot using the provided ax.

[malcolmw]

Once the Axes object is created, it is bound to the Figure that contains it; you can't add it to another Figure. So we would need to update the method if you want to use it to create subplots.

[hilarych]

I see! I was looking at the obspy trace plot function. It has an argument like ax=ax (or fig=fig) that plot the ax to the current figure. But it does not look like something that can be implemented very quickly. So I think I can just trim the data and plot it myself! Thanks. :)

[malcolmw]

I need to re-write some code to uniformly handle geophone and DAS data, and I will add this feature when I do that; it isn't too difficult.