On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > > > ------------------------- There's some precedent for treating text as a collection of paths; for instance, many eps exporters allow 'as path' or 'as text' as options. I think most vector drawing apps treat the text color as a face color, and support an additional edge color for doing outline effects. So on that conceptual basis a collection seems appropriate, even if the renderer treats it differently than a polygon. -Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
