Is there an easy way to draw a piece of text (or whatever) to an off-screen or off-canvas buffer, figure out the size from that, and then use that to draw to the plot?
M On 3/8/11 5:51 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote: > Goyo<goyod...@gmail.com> writes: > >> >> As Ben explained you need to draw first. So the usual path is: >> 1. Draw >> 2. Figure out the size of potentially problematic things (labels, >> titles...) and the space you need. >> 3. Adjust subplots or whatever needs adjustment to fit. >> 4. Draw again. >> >> Sort of weird but it works and I think it's widely used. >> >> Goyo > > Sorry if I'm annoying, but is there any example about that? > For the text I didn't find anything using bbox_patch to compute the size > and then adapt the size of it, unless I'm blind maybe it would be nice > to add in the website for the future... > > And also if I create an object of type matplotlib.Text.text how do I > actually attach it to my current figure? > > Thanks, > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You > This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details > its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative > solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
