Another, very hacky but quick way to do this, is to put spaces around your
text until the arrow is the size you desire:
" your text "
and if you want the arrow to expand upward and downward, put in return
characters (I told you it was crude ;))
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Peter Combs <pcombs+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to have a Text object with a fancy box, as in this example:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/fancybox_demo2.py.
> However, the key difference is that I want to have the box (in my case,
> I'm interested in an RArrow) be a specified width (in units of the plot),
> rather than just fitting it to the text I've given (crude ascii art
> below). The following seems not to work:
>
>
> ax = gca()
> txtobj = ax.text(0, -.1 * yrange, 'text',
> bbox=dict(boxstyle='rarrow'))
> txtobj.get_bbox_patch().set_
> width(SIZE_IM_INTERESTED_IN)
> draw_if_interactive()
>
> It seems like draw()ing the text object will reset the size of the BBox...
> Any idea how to fix this? At the moment, I'm experimenting with continually
> drawing, polling the get_width() method, and when it's too small, adding in
> spaces around the text field, but that seems both not to work reliably, and
> be an incredibly boneheaded way to go about it.
>
> I'm using matplotlib v. 1.1.0 if that makes a difference.
>
>
> --------------\
> | text >
> --------------/
> not
> ------\
> | text >
> ------/
>
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