On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:57:09AM -0500, Paul Novak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm still interested in having a polygon symbol in the legend for a 
> scatter plot. I've made some changes to the suggestion of Manuel Metz to 
> make the legend symbol look better (the code-fragment from legend.py is 
> below). But when resizing the window, the symbol gets stretched and 
> placed in a bad location; it appears that the symbol is stretched and 
> scaled in the same manner as the legend box as a whole, while I think it 
> would look better if the symbol maintained the same size and aspect 
> ratio, but merely moved to the appropriate location within the resized 
> legend.
> 
> I would like to add this functionality, but I need some help to 
> understand the required transformations or scaling to make it look good. 
> Perhaps someone with a better understanding could provide some help?

Even better would be to let the legend be whatever size it needs to
be independent of the scale of the axes.  I posted earlier on this
regarding units.  

Sorry, I won't have time to implement this myself.

         - Paul

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