Re: legend and bar?

[Michael Goffioul]

On 11/5/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Matlab has the "DisplayName" field of the BarSeries objects that
> includes the values of the legend strings.. I suppose we might add a
> "KeyLabel" field to the patch objects as you suggest, though it probably
> makes more sense to just bite the bullet and implement the bar series
> objects in a matlab compatible way. JHandles in octave-forge has this
> but its in a mix of java and m-files... If this was in pure m-file it
> would be relatively easy to migrate this into Octave, and add legends
> for bar plots in the process.

This is "next" in my TODO list. I already migrated the stemseries into
pure m-files. My target is to move all specialized graphs into pure
m-files (actually, there's only barseries left, the others are not implemented
yet). This makes the code re-usable by any graphics backend.

Michael.