Generate mlreportgen.report.Axes with colorbar

I'm trying to create a report generator that is part of a GUI. As such, I don't want to grab the figure as it contains many elements. Grabbing the Axes makes much more sense. However, when I do so, it doesn't grab the colorbar in my reports. I was under the impression that colorbars are children of the axes, so it would make sense to include them.

Is there a way to enable capturing of the colorbar with the axes using mlreportgen.report.Axes?

Answer 1

[Shushant]

Hi @Jan Neggers,

I understand that you are trying to generate a report and only want to use the “mlreportgen.report.Axes” while also trying to show the “colorbar” along with it. But as you have stated in your question the “colorbar” is not a property of axes and instead is a property of figure. I tried to find an alternative to this issue but to my understanding it is not currently possible to print the “colorbar” without the use of “Figure”. One or two methods which I tried also ultimately lead to the use of “Figure”. So, if you really need the “colorbar” in your report it would be better to use the “mlreportgen.report.Figure” instead and removing any additional information from “figure” property which you don’t want to show to the user.

[Jan Neggers]

I've found a workaround. So to be clear, I don't like to export the "Figure" because it will grab my entire GUI, which has plenty of things I don't want in the report. The solution I use now is to copy the axes with the colorbar to a new temporary figure using copyobj, which I then report using "Figure" before closing it. This generates a "pop-up" which is a bit surprising to the users, but it is ok.