Re: linestyleorder and scatter plots markerfacecolor and markeredgecolor properties

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:14 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> For information here is a patch that I'm working on that does the following
> 
> * It removes the "@" markers I recently added
> * It implements setting the linestyleorder with either a string or a string 
> cell array
> * Adds an graphics property order_property to handle the above
> * Uses the linestyleorder property in a what I believe is a matlab compatible 
> manner for plot, plot3, scatter and stem
> * Makes the scatter functions use the markedgecolor and markerfacecolor 
> properties in a matlab compatible manner rather than using the edgecolor 
> properties (or abusing it) as Shai pointed out
> * Adapt the patch handling in __go_draw_axes__ to treat the above properties, 
> though it only treats the case where one of these values is set or those 
> values that are set are set to the same value.
> 
> The patch seems to work for me and I'll commit it when I have more time. I'd 
> also like to get the regrouping of patches with "flat" properties given by 
> the scatter function to try and get more speed for scatter for these cases. I 
> know how to do it for the gnuplot backend but it needs some work.
> 
> Note that I can't seem to get the fltk backend to draw scatter plots 
> correctly even though I believe the properties of the scatter plots are now 
> correct.
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> <patch.bz2>

I had a moment to kill and thought I'd try out this change. Unfortunately, ...

        make[2]: *** No rule to make target `plot/__next_line_style__.m', 
needed by `all-am'.  Stop.

Ben