9.1 Tick marks

class tick_mark.T
Tick marks are used in conjunction with line plots (see Section 9) to show where sample points are. Class tick_mark.T is an abstract base class, from which several built-in tick mark classes are derived. They are described later.

Class tick_mark.T supports the following set of attributes.

fill_style
Type: fill_style.T (see Section 16) Default: fill_style.white.

The fill style.

line_style
Type: line_style.T (see Section 14) Default: line_style.black.

The line style of the tick mark.

size
Type: length in points (See Section 4) Default: 5.

Size of the tick mark.

Several types of tick marks are offered by PyChart as subclasses of tick_mark.T. They include: tick_mark.Circle, tick_mark.Square, tick_mark.Triangle, tick_mark.DownTriangle, tick_mark.X, tick_mark.Plus, tick_mark.Diamond, tick_mark.Star, tick_mark.Null. Specific instance of these classes are also defined for your convenience. Below is the list of such standard tick marks. They are referred to by as "tick_mark.name", where name is the labels below them.

Image tickmarks