Re: [matplotlib-devel] reimplemented legend class

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

John,

I just committed changes to SVN that reflect most of your comments.
I didn't add the optional transformation support yet though.


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:45 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> As implementing an optional transformation should be trivial, I'll
>> just go ahead an work on it. But it seems not clear to me how to
>> approach this without any specific use case given.
>
> In another thread yesterday, someone was asking about a general way to
> create a shadow effect.  It occurred to me that we could probably use
> the offsetbox for this.  One could create an offset box for a given
> artist that draws the artist offset from the original by 5 points or 5
> pixels, in a gray color that creates the appearance of a shadow.
> Would this be a reasonable use case to test the offset transformation
> in either points or pixels?
>
> JDH
>

I kind of prefer to use transforms.offset_copy() for simple offsets.
But it may better to use some kind of container (e.g., offsetbox) if
you have multiple artists.
I'll think about it.

Regards,

-JJ