Re: Customised plots + new API

[Tarjei K. <ta...@ch...>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Uwe Rathmann wrote:

> On Friday 03 May 2002 14:20, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> 
> > What is the best way to create customized plots? Specifically I would like
> > to remove some of the space saved for displaying legends and axis labels
> > to reserve more room for the actual plot, and then add some of my own
> > widgets which don't take up that much space.
> 
> There is no space reserved for something, but a couple of bugs in 0.4.0 that 
> waste these spaces. Try 0.4.1-pre1.
>  
Ah, yes. It looks a lot better in the prerelease, so I won't bother too 
much with this for now.

> > I'd be willing to work out an example for this, but I might need some help
> > from you people who really know the code.
> 
> You can customize the scales to a certain point, but exchanging it by
> your own scale class is very difficult. Exchanging the legends would be
> much easier. Contact me for details.
> 
After having another look at the code I agree. There seems to be a lot of 
overloading to be done to make this happen. It might be a bit easier if 
the array holding the scales was an array of pointers to QWidget instead, 
allthough I'd probably still end up reimplementing minimumSizeHint etc.

Anyway, I'd be happy to learn how to exchange the the legends if you could 
be bothered to give a few pointers.

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Thanks,
-- 
Tarjei