John Hunter wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
>> No, that applies to the axis ticks but not to the readout, and I think it is
>> the latter that Xavier is concerned with--at least that is what I have been
>> talking about, and want to improve.
> 
> Just to clarify -- by "readout" do you mean the toolbar strings?
> 
> At first I was assuming that since the toolbar formatting picks up the
> tick Formatter to format the strings, and ScalarFormatter uses
> rcParams['axes.formatter.limits'] to determine when to fall over to
> scientific notation, that this setting would be picked up by the
> toolbar.  The reason it does not is because ScalarFormatter overrides
> Formatter.format_data_short, which is what the toolbar uses via
> Axes.format_xdata/format_ydata, and ScalarFormatter.format_data_short
> does not use the formatter.limits setting.  Are we at least on the
> same page now?  If so, is it advisable/possible to make
> format_data_short respect the formatter.limits setting so Xavier can
> customize it to his heart's content.

Possible, but I think there is a much better solution along the lines I 
suggested earlier.  I have it partly implemented.  To really do it right 
will require a little bit of work on all the interactive backends; it 
might be very little and very easy.  It prompted my question starting 
another thread as to whether we can drop support for GTK < 2.4 so as to 
simplify that backend.

Eric
> 
> JDH
> 
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