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..image ::../../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/forward.png
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- The ``Forward `` and ``Back `` buttons
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- These are akin tothe web browser forward and backbuttons. They
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- are used to navigate back and forth between previously defined
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- views. They have no meaning unless you have already navigated
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- somewhere else using the pan and zoom buttons. This is analogous
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+ The ``Home ``, `` Forward `` and ``Back `` buttons
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+ These are akin toa web browser's home, forward and backcontrols.
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+ `` Forward `` and `` Back `` are used to navigate back and forth between
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+ previously defined views. They have no meaning unless you have already
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+ navigated somewhere else using the pan and zoom buttons. This is analogous
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to trying to click ``Back `` on your web browser before visiting a
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- new page--nothing happens. `` Home ``always takes you tothe
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- first, default view of your data .For ``Home ``, `` Forward `` and
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- `` Back ``, think web browser where data views are web pages. Use
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- the pan and zoom torectangle to define new views .
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+ new pageor `` Forward ``before youhave gone back toa page --
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+ nothing happens . ``Home `` always takes you to the
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+ first, default view of your data. Again, all of these buttons should
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+ feel very familiar toany user of a web browser .
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..image ::../../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/move.png
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@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ The ``Pan/Zoom`` button
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where you released. If you press 'x' or 'y' while panning the
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motion will be constrained to the x or y axis, respectively. Press
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the right mouse button to zoom, dragging it to a new position.
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- The x axis will be zoomed inproportionate to the rightward
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- movement and zoomed outproportionate to the leftward movement.
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- Ditto for the y axis and up/down motions. The point under your
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+ The x axis will be zoomed inproportionately to the rightward
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+ movement and zoomed outproportionately to the leftward movement.
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+ The same is true for the y axis and up/down motions. The point under your
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mouse when you begin the zoom remains stationary, allowing you to
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- zoomto an arbitrary pointin the figure . You can use the
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+ zoomin or out around that pointas much as you wish . You can use the
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modifier keys 'x', 'y' or 'CONTROL' to constrain the zoom to the x
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axis, the y axis, or aspect ratio preserve, respectively.
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@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The ``Pan/Zoom`` button
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The ``Zoom-to-rectangle `` button
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Click this toolbar button to activate this mode. Put your mouse
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- somewhere overand axes and press the left mouse button. Drag the
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+ somewhere overan axes and press the left mouse button. Drag the
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mouse while holding the button to a new location and release. The
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axes view limits will be zoomed to the rectangle you have defined.
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There is also an experimental 'zoom out to rectangle' in this mode
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..image ::../../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/subplots.png
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The ``Subplot-configuration `` button
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- Use this tool to configure the parameters of the subplot: the
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- left, right, top, bottom, space between the rows and space between
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- the columns.
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+ Use this tool to configure the appearance of the subplot:
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+ you can stretch or compress the left, right, top, or bottom
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+ side of the subplot, or the space between the rows or
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+ space between the columns.
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..image ::../../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png
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