Re: [PyX-devel] Dash length relative to line width

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

Hello Otto,

On 19.11.03, Otto Tronarp wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply.

No problem. However, in the meantime, we have (partially) implemented an
attribute system as outlined by André in a previous mail in this thread.

> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:06, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
> > However, I don't like the name normdist too much. It doesn't seem
> > to be very intuitive, does it? How about one of the following.
> 
> Fixed in the attached patch (I used rellengths as suggested by André)

Ok.

> > Similar ordering problems arise at other places in PyX, where we
> > use a similar solution. André, maybe we should use the mechanism
> > of the text module?
> > 
>  
> In the attached patch I use a __cmp__ function instead of supplying sort
> with a custom compare function. (As in the text module)

Dependency of attributes can now be specified more generally with the
new attribute system. In particular, we already took care of the
linestyle vs. linewidth sort order.

> > I really want to avoid the duplication of linestyles, so one
> > should really choose a sensible default. I would tend to
> > use the "automatic" behaviour. Other options?

We discussed this internally some weeks ago and in the end, it came to
the conclusion that probably the old way should be the default. Gert,
could you comment on this?

        Jörg