Re: [Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-10-03 Par sujet Jeremy Sanders
It would be quite easy to write a dataset plugin to do the conversion from data-text, but automatically allowing such expressions in plotting widgets would require some work. Jeremy On 02/10/13 22:31, Joseph Xu wrote: How hard would it be to allow text datasets to be generated from

Re: [Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-10-02 Par sujet Joseph Xu
How hard would it be to allow text datasets to be generated from expressions? Then one can specify the number formatting with the standard python formatting strings like {:03}. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Jeremy Sanders jer...@jeremysanders.net wrote: Dear All For the next release, I've

Re: [Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-09-30 Par sujet Jeremy Sanders
Dear All For the next release, I've added support for non-text datasets as labels. There isn't any support for how the numbers are formatted, however. It might be useful to have a number or date to text dataset plugin to do the conversion, however. Jeremy Joseph Xu wrote: Hi Benjamin:

[Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-09-23 Par sujet Joseph Xu
Hi: I'm trying to make a bar chart with numeric labels at the top, kind of like this: http://www.dplot.com/barchart/barchart3_h600.png I tried to do this by adding an additional x-y plot with hidden markers and the bar chart length for both the y position and the labels. However, it seems like

Re: [Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-09-23 Par sujet Benjamin K. Stuhl
On 9/23/2013 5:38 PM, Joseph Xu wrote: I'm trying to make a bar chart with numeric labels at the top, kind of like this: http://www.dplot.com/barchart/barchart3_h600.png I tried to do this by adding an additional x-y plot with hidden markers and the bar chart length for both the y position and

Re: [Veusz-discuss] using numeric data for labels

2013-09-23 Par sujet Joseph Xu
Hi Benjamin: Thanks, that works! The only problem is that the labels don't automatically update when the dataset it's based on changes, but it's not a big deal. Joseph On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Benjamin K. Stuhl bk...@cornell.edu wrote: On 9/23/2013 5:38 PM, Joseph Xu wrote: I'm