Paul Kienzle wrote: > On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > > >> We've done some experiments with Enthought Traits at various times to >> address this issue. There were always various obstacles to making it >> work, but it may be worth another look. Traits has its nice auto- >> built >> property editors (that may address your request), but it would also >> address one of my long-standing niggles that properties of graphs are >> often checked far too late and the error messages presented to the >> user >> are very obscured because of it. >> >> Of course, all that is a major undertaking -- basically rewriting all >> the getters and setters on the artist classes to use traits -- but I >> could see it having quite the payoff in the end. >> >> > > I'm not sure if traits can do it. > Why not? Everything you describe below screams "traits" to me. > I would like to see CSS-like properties, so that when I change the > font size on the graph, the title, which is size +2, and the legend > which is size -1 also get updated. I can imagine changing the font > for an axes, for a figure or for all figures. The latter should be > stored in a resource file so it doesn't have to be done every > session. Properties which are not set should look up their values > elsewhere; if the property of some object has been specialized, then > it should not change when the figure properties are set. Properties > for printed figures may be different from properties of figures on > the screen, e.g., because the printer is monochrome. > > Eventually I would like interactive editing of properties by point > and click. Particularly for plotted data the question will be > whether the change applies to the data point only, to its line, or to > all lines on the graph, to all graphs on the figure, or to all > figures, depending on the property. Doing this without cluttering > the UI will be a challenge. >
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