#811 "Fix Layout" needs a dialog

[Jeremy Faden]

Cindy and Connor both asked separately about how to make the stack of plots in Autoplot be without any space in between, and the "fix layout" action might provide this. It should bring up a dialog showing what the result will look like, and provide options like removing timetags in between and controlling the amount of whitespace in between plots.

[Jeremy Faden]

What else should be in this dialog? For example "fix layout..." brings up a dialog which offers:
* remove labels between plots
* gap between plots: 0, 1/2em, 1em, ....

Anything else we can think of (talking to you, Ivar)?

[Jeremy Faden]

Fix layout should also automatically add a time axis at the bottom, or make this easy to do. I often see where people loose their time axis and don't know how to turn it back on.

[Ivar Christopher]

On the topic of time axes, there needs to be some kind of explicit binding of
all the non-visible time axes to the visible one. I'm always paranoid that one
of the non-visble ones could get in a weird state where it's actually showing a
different time range (it's happened...).

I'll ponder other things for this dialog...

Ta,

Ivar

On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Jeremy Faden wrote:

Fix layout should also automatically add a time axis at the bottom, or make
this easy to do. I often see where people loose their time axis and don't
know how to turn it back on.

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[feature-requests:#811] "Fix Layout" needs a dialog

Status: open
Group: Next Development Release
Created: Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:00 PM UTC by Jeremy Faden
Last Updated: Sat Oct 14, 2023 01:02 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Cindy and Connor both asked separately about how to make the stack of plots in Autoplot be without any space in between, and the "fix layout" action might provide this. It should bring up a dialog showing what the result will look like, and provide options like removing timetags in between and controlling the amount of whitespace in between plots.

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[Ivar Christopher]

Option to turn on/off all plot titles.

Ivar

On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Ivar Christopher wrote:

On the topic of time axes, there needs to be some kind of explicit binding of
all the non-visible time axes to the visible one. I'm always paranoid that
one of the non-visble ones could get in a weird state where it's actually
showing a different time range (it's happened...).

I'll ponder other things for this dialog...

Ta,

Ivar

On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Jeremy Faden wrote:

Fix layout should also automatically add a time axis at the bottom, or make
this easy to do. I often see where people loose their time axis and don't
know how to turn it back on.

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[feature-requests:#811] "Fix Layout" needs a dialog

Status: open
Group: Next Development Release
Created: Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:00 PM UTC by Jeremy Faden
Last Updated: Sat Oct 14, 2023 01:02 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Cindy and Connor both asked separately about how to make the stack of plots
in Autoplot be without any space in between, and the "fix layout" action
might provide this. It should bring up a dialog showing what the result
will look like, and provide options like removing timetags in between and
controlling the amount of whitespace in between plots.

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[Jeremy Faden]

Also needed is a normalization of the layout strings. Often I have tests fail because "100%+2.0em" is different than "100.0%+2em".

[Jeremy Faden]

See also https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/243/

[K Paulson]

Maybe there could also be the option to place all legends in the "OutsideNE" position.

[Jeremy Faden]

I'm going to finish off the v2023a_10 release today, and then I'll start working on this.

[Jeremy Faden]

The devel version of Autoplot (20231021a) has a first go at this.

[Jeremy Faden]

Cindy was looking for this function.

[Jeremy Faden]

This is coming along. The epiphany I had this morning was that the percentages are of the margin row, not the canvas, so they were slightly off. Plus a dump index error.

[Jeremy Faden]

Ivar and I noticed:
* vap+cdaweb:ds=OMNI2_H0_MRG1HR&id=DST1800&timerange=Oct+2016
* add plot below, vap+cdaweb:ds=OMNI2_H0_MRG1HR&id=KP1800&timerange=Oct+2016
* remove the extra !c
* fix layout.

It doesn't leave enough room for the titles.

[Jeremy Faden]

The problem where the extra !c is added is fixed. Also the problem where the x-axis label wasn't counted is fixed.

[Jeremy Faden]

I've added the properties maxLayout and minLayout to Das2's DasColumn and DasRow objects, so that Autoplot can simply bind to these and the problem of managing layout is all in one class. Autoplot now simply binds to these properties.

[Jeremy Faden]

This is close to working ideally. There's a jump when this idempotent operation is invoked a second time. Here are the two states, the second is after "autolayout" scoots things in:

marginRow_0: 0%+3.0em,100%-0.0em (626 pix)
  row_21: 0.00%+0.00em,31.95%-1.00em (190 pix)
  oneEmRow: 31.95%+0.00em,31.95%+1.00em (10 pix)
  row_23: 31.95%+2.00em,64.38%+1.00em (193 pix)
  row_25: 64.38%+2.00em,101.60%-2.00em (193 pix)
ratio of last two heights: 1.00
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marginColumn_0: 0%+3.0em,100%-10.0em (595 pix)



marginRow_0: 0%+3.0em,100.00%-4.0em (586 pix)
  row_21: 0.00%+0.00em,32.10%-1.0em (178 pix)
  oneEmRow: 32.10%,32.10%+1.0em (10 pix)
  row_23: 32.10%+2.0em,64.40%+1.0em (179 pix)
  row_25: 64.40%+2.0em,101.60%-2.0em (178 pix)
ratio of last two heights: 1.01
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marginColumn_0: +8.0em,100.00%-11.0em (535 pix)

[Jeremy Faden]

See also https://github.com/autoplot/dev/tree/master/rfe/sf/811

[Jeremy Faden]

There's an issue with "inset" plots where a special row and column are added. This should be detected and ignored in the fix layout, or moved relative to the plot they were on before the fix layout operation.

1 . add plots, 3x3, replace current
2. add plot, inset plot
3. fix_layout

You can see that the insert plot's row and column are handled along with the others.

[Jeremy Faden]

The action "Break into stack of plots" would hang because fix layout would call waitUntilIdle when the action would get a mutator lock. It now checks that there's a mutator that is locked.