What is meant by "draw time"? For most purposes, I think that I'd want to specify an offset in font units (points). If offsets are specified in units of pixels, then the results would be display-dependent, and achieving display-independent results would require some additional fiddling. I would recommend allowing the user to select units of points, pixels, mm, inches, or plot units, with a default of points.
Phillip John Hunter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > >> I think that allowing display units would be easy to implement (as indicated >> by Ryan's example), but font or physical units would be much trickier >> because they would involve draw-time determinations. Starting by allowing >> only display units still would be much better than the present situation. >> >> Collections already have something like this, with their offset and >> offset_transform kwargs, but they are still a little more difficult to use >> than what I am thinking of for text. >> > > This would be a nice feature, but a little tricky to do generally > since the text objects are already so complicated ... I mean feature > rich. > > One could simply do a draw time offset and convert points->pixels (eg > as in Annotation) but to get everything to play consistently with > annotations, arrows, fancy boxes, etc, would require some care and > thought. > > JDH > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
