I have updated MEP26 to include discussion on 'decoupling' the style from artists and having a generic Style class.
(copied over from the github issue): I have been thinking that a good way to get stylesheets in, would be if the 'style' of an artist was entirely independent. I.E a single property which points to some kind of 'style' object. This way, style objects could be created on their own (programatically, or by some other means (Stylesheets!)) and then applied to artists at will (programatically, or by some other means (a stylesheet parser....)). Then I thought...when it comes to drawing, the style **is** entirely independent - it has been transferred to the `GraphicsContext` object. So all that is needed is to expose this object at the artist level and we can create styles! I created a very minimal example to explain here: https://github.com/JamesRamm/mpl_experiment Basically, it just provides a `Style` class (which is just `GraphicsContextBase` propertified and with a new function to generate one from a dict) and a minimal reimplementation of Line2D and Text to show how it would be used for both. Just run run.py (and have a look at it) to see how the user would use style objects. (Note it is a bit convoluted as I have not added any axes plotting routines, so a Line2D needs to be manually created and added). Basically, this involves reimplementing the `draw` method to use the `style` property rather than creating a new `GraphicsContext` instance. It also has the benefits that you could create 1 style object and apply it to multiple artists, or tweak a couple of properties on each...which is nicer than using individual get/set methods on artists (IMO). So the API could potentially become something like: arts = axes.plot(xdata, ydata) #Note not providing any 'style' info myStyle = Style.from_dict({'color': '#484D7A', 'linewidth': 1.9, 'linestyle': 'dashed'}) arts.style = myStyle arts.style.color = '#FFFFFF' or: myStyle = Style() axes.plot([0,1],[0,1], style = myStyle) -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/MEP26-Artist-level-stylesheets-tp43664p43770.html Sent from the matplotlib - devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
