Re: [matplotlib-devel] reimplemented legend class

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have been working on reimplementation of the legend class, and I
>> guess it is mostly done. The biggest change is how each items are
>> placed. For this, I made a simple container class("offsetbox.py"),
>> which can pack the mpl artists in a similar way as widget packing in
>> gtk, tk, etc.
>>     
>
> Hi Jae-Joon -- as usual this is great work, and brings one of the
> oldest, hairiest, parts of the code into the modern age.  I went ahead
> and committed this to svn r6461 with some minor spelling corrections,
> but I have some minor comments below which may be worth addressing in
> a revision.
>
> Aside from the legend enhancement, the important and general piece
> here is the offset box, which  could become a significant piece of the
> low-level infrastructure (eg for axes layout)  so I do want to make
> sure we get this right.  In particular, I'd like Andrew Straw, who has
> a toolkit for sizers, and Michael Droettboom, who implemented the
> Knuth boxes in support of mathtext, to take a look at the API and
> provide some feedback as to whether if it looks sufficient.
>   
Hi Jae-Joon and John,

The MPL sizer toolkits looks entirely unaffected by these changes, and
the demo looks very convincing. So from my perspective this would be a
benefit to have in assuming that the issues John raises can be dealt with.