John Hunter wrote: > 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. >
Ok, good to know. I'll put it on my todo list then. Do you think this can inherit from Collection at all? It seemed like a lot of the methods in the Collection base class were specific to polygons or other geometry and don't really make sense in the case of text. Anyone else have thoughts on how this should be implemented? Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
