Re: [matplotlib-devel] text with dash problems

[Manuel M. <mm...@as...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> Manuel and Michael worked on fixing a bug with TextWithDash, but this
> introduced a bug will all tick labels so I reverted the changes.  The
> problem is that the text layout code in Text (eg draw,
> get_window_extent) is using "get_position" which in TextWithDash is
> the dash position, according to the doc string and the original impl.
> On the branch, the draw and layout methods of Text use _get_xy_display
> which TextWithDash overrides.  That is why it works on the branch and
> not the trunk.  The changes of M&M to make set_position and
> get_position refer to the x and y locs fixed dash with text for
> reasons that are not completely clear t me, but broke tick labels
> which are also TextWithDash instances.
> 
> I did not write TextWithDash so cannot vouch for its conventions, but
> I don't have time to dig deeply enough right now to fix this, so I
> wanted to revert the changes so regular plots would work again and
> give a head's up here so Manuel, Michael and I would not be doing and
> undoing each other's changes w/o some understanding of where the
> discerpancy was arising.

Hm, the patch I applied was exactly because I got also problems with the 
tick labels -- they were all squashed to one place -- and I thought to 
have fixed that. Now, it seems this wasn't quite correct ;-)
   As I have also no deeper understanding what's _really_ going on in 
TextWithDash, I will now better keep my hands off TextWithDash ...

Manuel

> Thanks,
> JDH
> 
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