On Sunday 27 January 2008 11:43:16 am Darren Dale wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Sunday 27 January 2008 8:51:37 am Martin Teichmann wrote: > > Some months ago, I proposed some improvements of the Qt4 backend, > > especially using the Qt4 toolbar instead of writing our own hand-coded > > toolbar, amongst other detailed changes. I was told that was bad timing, > > as a new release was about to come out, and the project was in frozen. I > > promised to come back, and here I am. All the details, including the > > patches, can be found at the sourceforge patch request site, patch > > request no 1828848 "Qt4 backend improvement", > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ > > ?func=detail&atid=560722&aid=1828848&group_id=80706 > > > > So, what do yall think about that, and is there someone willing to apply > > this patch? > > Thank you for reminding me about this. > > Martin made some nice improvements for the qt4 backend using Qt4's native > toolbars and status bars. There are a couple cosmetic changes in the pylab > interface: the toolbar is a dock widget which appears at the top of the > window by default, and the cursor coordinates are rendered in the status > bar. But the widget still behaves the same way when embedded in another > application. Nice work, Martin. > > He also asked if it would be a good idea to render multiple figures into a > tab widget instead of creating multiple windows. Its an interesting idea, > but since the size of each figure may vary, it would mean each figure would > have to be rendered into a scrollable area. That might be a useful thing to > do in general, because we could then render figures that are larger than > the screen, but then we would need a new way to change the size of the > canvas because it wouldn't be coupled with the size of the window like it > is now. Maybe this is too disruptive a change.
I forgot to mention, I committed the patch to svn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
