Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > Andrew, > > One of my worry is that this can results in inconsistent ouputs > between backends. Your patch only affects backends with compositing > capabilities. And backends such as ps backend will still render images > at the bottom of all other artists.
PS backend already does things differently from others because it doesn't handle alpha, correct? Does the patch make this situation any worse? Eric > > I think it is often sufficient if we draw images at the bottom but > respect zorders among images, and I guess this actually solves the > issue of the original post. > > So, my inclination is to respect zorders between images by default > (images still drawn at the bottom), and optionally with all other > artists. > > Anyhow, I guess the cases affected by this issue is quite rare, and > I'm actually fine if you submit the patch as is. > > Regards, > > -JJ > > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have addressed what I think is a long-standing wart: zorder is mostly >> ignored for imshow(). (See e.g. >> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A--Matplotlib-users--imshow-zorder-tt19047314.html#a19047314 >> ) The question is whether I should apply the attached patch. >> >> The worry is that someone is relying on the old behavior of images being >> underneath everything else. To a degree, this could be achieved by having >> the default image zorder be lower than everything else. Currently, imshow() >> creates images with zorder 1, which is pretty low on the hierarchy, but >> there may be something lower. (The artist base class default is 0, but the >> Line2D class bumps it to 2.) All tests pass with the change, and manual >> inspection of several of the pylab_examples don't show any difference before >> and after the patch. >> >> -Andrew >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >> on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
