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Re: proposed changes to legend()
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Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: proposed changes to legend() |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:50:10 -0400 |
On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Rik wrote:
>
>> On 07/06/2013 05:18 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> Rik,
>>>
>>> I thought I'd address this to you as the you and I have made most of recent
>>> changes to legend(), and I'd like to hear from someone familiar with
>>> legend.m before proceeding.
>>>
>>> Since Octave has no way to reliably determine the tightinset for gnuplot, I
>>> am proposing implementing a different behavior for gnuplot and opengl.
>>>
>>> In the case of gnuplot, my thought is to let gnuplot handle the location of
>>> the keybox and the plotbox (this requires that legend() set the
>>> activepositionproperty of the plotbox to "outerposition" when the keybox is
>>> outside the plotbox).
>>>
>>> For opengl, the goal is full Matlab compatibility.
>>>
>>> I have three changesets prepared (1) new demos which highlight the
>>> problems, (2) the new gnuplot behavior. Which implements a behavior close
>>> to what was in the 3.2.x series. (3) fixes for opengl. I've placed them on
>>> the patch tracker, and will follow up with pdf's of all the demos for both
>>> gnuplot and opengl shortly.
>> 7/6/13
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> I think what you are proposing is fine. Supporting two graphics backends
>> is difficult for such a small group of volunteers, and we know that the
>> future for Octave lies with OpenGL and Qt. Given that, implementing a few
>> kluges for gnuplot, which are eventually going to be ripped out, seems like
>> an expedient tactic.
>>
>> --Rik
>
> Ok. I'll proceed.
>
> Ben
Done.
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1c4be5dcacd5
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8f9ed9d8a478
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8a4e53cf79c9
Ben