Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc generation

2006-10-10 Thread John Hunter
> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> 1) generate matplotlibrc with almost everything commented Eric> out by default +2 Hopefully, this will address the problem of all the deprecated rc warnings people are getting, which is confusing to new users. Eric> 2) el

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: line and marker designations

2006-10-10 Thread John Hunter
> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> It raises larger API questions. From the standpoint of Eric> user-level code readability, the present array of marker and Eric> line identifiers (inherited from Matlab) is not good. For Eric> example, why should '-' me

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc generation

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, >>> The core problem: The matplotlibrc file distributed with matplotlib >>> contains all the default values in non-commented lines. This file is >>> usually copied to the home-directory of any user, making it impossible >>> to simply change any default value in later versions. It is not po

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: line and marker designations

2006-10-10 Thread John Hunter
> "Eric" == Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> marker='tri_up')"? (I still don't know what is the Eric> difference between "tri_up" and "triangle_up".) tri_up is a tripod up, vs a triangle up. JDH -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, >> >>> The problem in r2790: I changed the default value in matplotlibrc to >>> 'auto' and everything worked fine for me. I forgot that, of course, >>> anybody updating from an older version, would still have the values >>> 'blue' and 'black' in their matplotlibrc, which would not be ov

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: line and marker designations

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, I am splitting this thread because I think different issues are involved in different parts. > >> In looking at your original patch, I also wondered what is the reason >> for supporting 3 different ways of specifying "_draw_nothing"? (I had >> not previously noticed that there was a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] custom symbol patch

2006-10-10 Thread John Hunter
> "Manuel" == Manuel Metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manuel> Hi, I just submitted a patch to sourceforge and also Manuel> attached it to this email: Manuel> The applied patch modifies the files axes.py and Manuel> collections.py. Manuel> I added a class StaredRegularPoly

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling

2006-10-10 Thread Norbert Nemec
Eric Firing wrote: > Norbert Nemec wrote: > >> OK, I found the problem and committed a temporary fix. The real problem, >> however is rooted a bit deeper. >> >> First an explanation of the intended change: >> >> It used to be that marker colors were partly automatic, but not >> completely. I.e.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert Nemec wrote: > OK, I found the problem and committed a temporary fix. The real problem, > however is rooted a bit deeper. > > First an explanation of the intended change: > > It used to be that marker colors were partly automatic, but not > completely. I.e. > > plot(x,y,'-or') > > w

Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling

2006-10-10 Thread Norbert Nemec
OK, I found the problem and committed a temporary fix. The real problem, however is rooted a bit deeper. First an explanation of the intended change: It used to be that marker colors were partly automatic, but not completely. I.e. plot(x,y,'-or') would set both, line color and marker color