Re: [Matplotlib-users] How can I set the backgroundcolor of text with set_backgroundcolor ?

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Bakker <ma...@gm...> writes:

    Mark> Hello - I want to set the backgroundcolor of text with the
    Mark> set_backgroundcolor function.  Does that actually work?  I
    Mark> saw a more complicated way to do it by defining a bbox, but
    Mark> this would be much easier (if I got it to work).  Here's my
    Mark> example that doesn't work.  Thanks for any suggestions,

Strange.  When I saw your post my first thought was "hmmm, I didn't
know we had a text background color".  I looked through the text.py
code and it is there as a property, but is totally unused.  I don't
know who added it, but apparently someone got interrupted mid-code.
That someone could be me, but if anyone knows where this came from
speak up; otherwise it will be removed.

The bbox is the standard way to do this, and is a bit more general
since you can set the alpha, the linewidth, the edgecolor, etc...

  ax.text(1,2,'hi mom', bbox=dict(facecolor='red'))

JDH