Eric Firing wrote: > Norbert, > >>> >>> >>>> The problem in r2790: I changed the default value in matplotlibrc to >>>> 'auto' and everything worked fine for me. I forgot that, of course, >>>> anybody updating from an older version, would still have the values >>>> 'blue' and 'black' in their matplotlibrc, which would not be overridden >>>> by the '.r' option that Stefan used. >>>> >>>> >>> This is not the first time matplotlibrc has bitten us, and it won't be >>> the last... >>> >>> But *shouldn't* '.r' override a setting in matplotlibrc, regardless of >>> what that setting is? I think it should have set the mfc, or preferably >>> both the mfc and the mec. >>> >>> >> OK, that would be an alternative solution: set both mfc and mec to >> 'auto', whenever the color is specified using a format string. However, >> this would mean that the rcfile options markeredgecolor and >> markerfacecolor are often ignored, even if they were set on purpose. If >> that is the case, one could just as well deactivate them completely and >> prevent some confusion. >> >> > > Either I am not understanding you correctly, or we have fundamentally > different views of the role of matplotlibrc values. The way I see it, > function args and kwargs *always* override matplotlibrc values, which in > turn *always* override built-in defaults. So in the example above, if > the user writes "plot(x,y,'r.')", red dots should be plotted no matter > what is in matplotlibrc. It should not depend on whether something is > set to 'auto'. >
I fully agree with you. Guess, the simple solution to the dilemma is to drop the idea of rcfile-configurability of markerfacecolor and markeredgecolor. That way, markers would always have the same color as the line, unless explicitely set differently by the kwargs markeredgecolor/markerfacecolor. This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other case, a rcfile-option will not help anyway. Greetings, Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
