""" ======================== Custom Figure subclasses ======================== You can pass a `.Figure` subclass to `.pyplot.figure` if you want to change the default behavior of the figure. This example defines a `.Figure` subclass ``WatermarkFigure`` that accepts an additional parameter ``watermark`` to display a custom watermark text. The figure is created using the ``FigureClass`` parameter of `.pyplot.figure`. The additional ``watermark`` parameter is passed on to the subclass constructor. """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.figure import Figure import numpy as np class WatermarkFigure(Figure): """A figure with a text watermark.""" def __init__(self, *args, watermark=None, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) if watermark is not None: bbox = dict(boxstyle='square', lw=3, ec='gray', fc=(0.9, 0.9, .9, .5), alpha=0.5) self.text(0.5, 0.5, watermark, ha='center', va='center', rotation=30, fontsize=40, color='gray', alpha=0.5, bbox=bbox) x = np.linspace(-3, 3, 201) y = np.tanh(x) + 0.1 * np.cos(5 * x) plt.figure(FigureClass=WatermarkFigure, watermark='draft') plt.plot(x, y) ############################################################################# # # ------------ # # References # """""""""" # # The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown # in this example: import matplotlib matplotlib.pyplot.figure matplotlib.figure.Figure matplotlib.figure.Figure.text