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

[Mark B. <ma...@gm...>]

Thanks John. This works great.
I think, however, that set_backgroundcolor would be useful.
It should be easy to fix.
If nobody speaks up, I will take a crack at it,
Mark

On 1/3/07, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "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
>