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

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

Thanks for writing the convenience function John !
I think there is a large group (like the students in my class) who use
matplotlib as a simple tool to make beautiful graphs. To compete with matlab
we need to keep simple tasks simple. I personally think that this
convenience function is a good one to add. Probably under pylab.
Anybody else want to weigh in?
Mark

On 1/3/07, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Bakker <ma...@gm...> writes:
>
>     Mark> Thanks John. This works great.  I think, however, that
>     Mark> set_backgroundcolor would be useful.  It should be easy to
>     Mark> fix.  If nobody speaks up, I will take a crack at it, Mark
>
> What do you have in mind, a simple convenience function that does
>
>     def set_backgroundcolor(self, color):
>         """
>         Set the background color of the text by updating the bbox
> facecolor
>
>         ACCEPTS: any matplotlib color
>         """
>         if self._bbox is None:
>             self._bbox = dict(facecolor=color, edgecolor=color)
>         else:
>             self._bbox.update(dict(facecolor=color))
>
> I'm not too opposed to it, but it does violate the maxim "There should be
> one--
> and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."  Of course, we
> violate this throughout mpl offerings lots of convenience functions,
> but it is something to bear in mind.
>