Tplot Options

pytplot.tplot_options(option, value)

This function allows the user to set GLOBAL options for the generated plots.

Parameters:

• option – str The name of the option. See section below
• value – str/int/float/list The value of the option. See section below.

Options:

Options	Value type	Notes
title	str	Title of the the entire output
title_size	int	Font size of the output
wsize	[int, int]	[height, width], pixel size of the plot window
title_align	int	Offset position in pixels of the title
var_label	srt	Name of the tplot variable to be used as another x axis
alt_range	[flt, flt]	The min and max altitude to be plotted on all alt plots
map_x_range	[int, int]	The min and max longitude to be plotted on all map plots
map_y_range	[int, int]	The min and max latitude to be plotted on all map plots
x_range	[flt, flt]	The min and max x_range (usually time) to be plotted on all Spec/1D plots
data_gap	int	Number of seconds with consecutive nan values allowed before no interp should occur
roi	[str, str]	Times between which there’s a region of interest for a user
crosshair	bool	Option allowing crosshairs and crosshair legend
vertical_spacing	int	The space in pixels between two plots
show_all_axes	bool	Whether or not to just use one axis at the bottom of the plot
black_background	bool	Whether or not to make plot backgrounds black w/ white text
axis_font_size	int	The font size of the axis ticks. Default is 10.
axis_tick_num	[tuples]	A list of tuples that determines how many ticks appear. See pyqtgraph textFillLimits
yaxis_width	int	The number of pixels wide of the y axis
y_axis_zoom	bool	Set True if the mouse wheel should zoom in on the y axis as well as the x on plots.

Returns:None

Examples

>>> # Set the plot title
>>> import pytplot
>>> pytplot.tplot_options('title', 'SWEA Data for Orbit 1563')

>>> # Set the window size
>>> pytplot.tplot_options('wsize', [1000,500])