matplotlib.patches.FancyBboxPatch

class matplotlib.patches.FancyBboxPatch(xy, width, height, boxstyle='round', bbox_transmuter=None, mutation_scale=1.0, mutation_aspect=None, **kwargs)

Draw a fancy box around a rectangle with lower left at xy*=(*x, y) with specified width and height.

FancyBboxPatch class is similar to Rectangle class, but it draws a fancy box around the rectangle. The transformation of the rectangle box to the fancy box is delegated to the BoxTransmuterBase and its derived classes.

xy = lower left corner

width, height

boxstyle determines what kind of fancy box will be drawn. It can be a string of the style name with a comma separated attribute, or an instance of BoxStyle. Following box styles are available.

Class	Name	Attrs
Circle	circle	pad=0.3
DArrow	darrow	pad=0.3
LArrow	larrow	pad=0.3
RArrow	rarrow	pad=0.3
Round	round	pad=0.3,rounding_size=None
Round4	round4	pad=0.3,rounding_size=None
Roundtooth	roundtooth	pad=0.3,tooth_size=None
Sawtooth	sawtooth	pad=0.3,tooth_size=None
Square	square	pad=0.3

mutation_scale : a value with which attributes of boxstyle (e.g., pad) will be scaled. default=1.

mutation_aspect : The height of the rectangle will be squeezed by this value before the mutation and the mutated box will be stretched by the inverse of it. default=None.

Valid kwargs are:

Property	Description
agg_filter	unknown
alpha	float or None
animated	[True | False]
antialiased or aa	[True | False] or None for default
capstyle	[‘butt’ | ‘round’ | ‘projecting’]
clip_box	a matplotlib.transforms.Bbox instance
clip_on	[True | False]
clip_path	[ (Path, Transform) | Patch | None ]
color	matplotlib color spec
contains	a callable function
edgecolor or ec	mpl color spec, None, ‘none’, or ‘auto’
facecolor or fc	mpl color spec, or None for default, or ‘none’ for no color
figure	a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance
fill	[True | False]
gid	an id string
hatch	[‘/’ | ‘' | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’]
joinstyle	[‘miter’ | ‘round’ | ‘bevel’]
label	string or anything printable with ‘%s’ conversion.
linestyle or ls	[‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or lw	float or None for default
path_effects	unknown
picker	[None|float|boolean|callable]
rasterized	[True | False | None]
sketch_params	unknown
snap	unknown
transform	Transform instance
url	a url string
visible	[True | False]
zorder	any number

get_bbox()

get_boxstyle()

Return the boxstyle object

get_height()

Return the height of the rectangle

get_mutation_aspect()

Return the aspect ratio of the bbox mutation.

get_mutation_scale()

Return the mutation scale.

get_path()

Return the mutated path of the rectangle

get_width()

Return the width of the rectangle

get_x()

Return the left coord of the rectangle

get_y()

Return the bottom coord of the rectangle

set_bounds(*args)

Set the bounds of the rectangle: l,b,w,h

ACCEPTS: (left, bottom, width, height)

set_boxstyle(boxstyle=None, **kw)

Set the box style.

boxstyle can be a string with boxstyle name with optional comma-separated attributes. Alternatively, the attrs can be provided as keywords:

set_boxstyle("round,pad=0.2")
set_boxstyle("round", pad=0.2)

Old attrs simply are forgotten.

Without argument (or with boxstyle = None), it returns available box styles.

The following boxstyles are available:

Class	Name	Attrs
Circle	circle	pad=0.3
DArrow	darrow	pad=0.3
LArrow	larrow	pad=0.3
RArrow	rarrow	pad=0.3
Round	round	pad=0.3,rounding_size=None
Round4	round4	pad=0.3,rounding_size=None
Roundtooth	roundtooth	pad=0.3,tooth_size=None
Sawtooth	sawtooth	pad=0.3,tooth_size=None
Square	square	pad=0.3

ACCEPTS: [ ‘circle’ | ‘darrow’ | ‘larrow’ | ‘rarrow’ | ‘round’ | ‘round4’ | ‘roundtooth’ | ‘sawtooth’ | ‘square’ ]

set_height(h)

Set the width rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_mutation_aspect(aspect)

Set the aspect ratio of the bbox mutation.

ACCEPTS: float

set_mutation_scale(scale)

Set the mutation scale.

ACCEPTS: float

set_width(w)

Set the width rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_x(x)

Set the left coord of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_y(y)

Set the bottom coord of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

Examples using matplotlib.patches.FancyBboxPatch

Reference for matplotlib artists

Fancybox Demo