Fixed a handlelegth bug in the legend class

leejjoon · leejjoon · commit ad025617cedf · 2008-12-05T21:09:42.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=6499
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2008-12-05 Fixed a bug that the handlelength of the new legend class 
+	   set too short when numpoints=1 -JJL
+
 2008-12-04 Added support for data with units (e.g. dates) to
            Axes.fill_between. -RM
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/legend.py b/lib/matplotlib/legend.py
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ def _init_legend_box(self, handles, labels):
                                     npoints)
                 xdata_marker = xdata
             elif npoints == 1:
-                xdata = np.linspace(0, self.handlelength, 2)
+                xdata = np.linspace(0, self.handlelength*self.fontsize, 2)
                 xdata_marker = [0.5*self.handlelength*self.fontsize]
 
             if isinstance(handle, Line2D):
