Allow kwarg passing to plotting functions.

[GB123185]

What do you need help with?

This is probably not an eqcorrscan-specific issue, but rather an issue with my lack of experience with matplotlib. I return a matplotlib figure object, which is attached, and I'm trying to modify the matplotlib figure to change the color and x/y labels. I get the current axes, and modify the axes, but when I try to show the figure again, the figure, 'outfig' does not update. I'm probably missing one small thing in the code, but I just can't pinpoint what it is! The code and outfig is provided below. Thank you for your help!

EDIT: Sorry, I just have to save the figure - re-plotting outfig.show() doesn't automatically update the figure. Apologies for the stupid issue being raised!

Provide an example so that we can reproduce your problem

import glob
template_names = glob.glob('templates/template*.ms')             

from eqcorrscan.utils.plotting import cumulative_detections                   
outfig = cumulative_detections(
    detections=detections, template_names=template_names, 
    plot_grouped=True, plot_legend=True, title='Detections 16-01-18 to 22-02-18', 
    save=False, rate=True, return_figure=True)                                    
ax = outfig.gca()                                                             
ax.set_xlabel('Dates from January 16 2018')                                   
outfig.show() 

[calum-chamberlain]

All good - you can set the show argument to False to stop the initial plotting, then you can make updates and show later. e.g.:

import glob
template_names = glob.glob('templates/template*.ms')             

from eqcorrscan.utils.plotting import cumulative_detections                   
outfig = cumulative_detections(
    detections=detections, template_names=template_names, 
    plot_grouped=True, plot_legend=True, title='Detections 16-01-18 to 22-02-18', 
    save=False, rate=True, return_figure=True, show=False)                               
ax = outfig.gca()                                                             
ax.set_xlabel('Dates from January 16 2018')                                   
outfig.show() 

should work for you. I have never known how to update a plot after you have shown it.

[GB123185]

Ok Great. Thanks Calum. On a related note, the histogram color is fixed to darkgrey in the source code. Do you happen to know about a quick and easy way to edit the color of the histogram bins from darkgrey, to say, red? Cheers.

[calum-chamberlain]

Ugh, so it is - that needs to be changed. I'm afraid I don't know how you can do that after the fact. I will leave this open to remind me to pass kwargs through to the plots for cumulative-plotting.

[GB123185]

Ok cool. Yeah it's not a big deal, I really appreciate your help and responsiveness. Cheers,
Greg