On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone ever thought about creating a TextCollection class? The > purpose would be similar to the other collections, to group a bunch of > text objects with similar properties. This probably couldn't inherit > from Collection as of now though, since Collection assumes things like > edgecolor and facecolor. The bigger question to me is, could the > backends make use of this to any improvement? Or would this simply > serve as an API to eliminate having to loop yourself (which would pretty > much make this useless). > > My own personal use case is (once again) in meteorology, where we do > station plots. This involves printing the actual value of observed > variables relative to the location of the station. This isn't hard to > do right now (especially since I have offset_copy back, thanks Mike!). > I just wasn't sure if the batch functionality of a Collection might > serve some purpose to the users at large.
I've thought of it many times and it would definitely be useful, eg for tick labels. Treating every label as a separate instance definitely slows things down. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
