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: > > 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 > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 the >>> labels. However, it seems like you can't use numeric data sets for >>> labels. I tried some other things, like creating a dataset using >>> "str(y)" for the expression, but that fails also. Is there any way to >>> hack around this? >> >> >> Hi Joseph, >> Your idea about creating a dataset using str(y) is a good one, it just >> takes a bit more typing at the veusz console command line. If your >> numeric dataset is named 'y', you could create a text label dataset by >> >> SetDataText('y_labels', [ str(v) for v in GetData('y')[0] ]) >> >> for example. I hope this helps with your goal! >> >> Regards, >> -- BKS >> _______________________________________________ Veusz-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
