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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add a colorbar() method to ScalarMappable?","articleBody":"              \r\nSorry to slightly hijack the thread here, but I think this may be a good opportunity to discuss whether\r\ncolorbar() could rather be a method on the ScalarMappable rather than on the Figure (we can always keep \r\nfigure.colorbar(...) available \"forever\", of course, for backcompat).\r\nIndeed, in an call like `fig.colorbar(mappable)` or `fig.colorbar(mappable, ax=...)` or `fig.colorbar(mappable, cax=...)`, \r\nfig *plays no role at all* (\\*): the axes where the colorbar ends up is entirely determined by the mappable's axes (or by the ax \r\nkwarg, or the cax kwarg.\r\n\r\n(\\*) Actually I lied a bit: we currently check whether there's a layout engine on fig (but that actually seems more like a bug; we should really check that on mappable.axes.figure).\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @anntzer in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/25871#issuecomment-1546358063_\r\n            ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/greglucas","@type":"Person","name":"greglucas"},"datePublished":"2023-05-13T03:10:29.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":24},"url":"https://github.com/25880/matplotlib/issues/25880"}