Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > What is meant by "draw time"? When you call text(...), a Text object is created and added to a list of things (Artists) to be drawn, but no drawing occurs (unless using pyplot in interactive mode) until a draw(), show(), or savefig() command is given. That's "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. Much easier said than done, unfortunately. Not impossible. Who's going to bell the cat? Eric > > 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
