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Re: units updater for figures is broken when using fltk


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: units updater for figures is broken when using fltk
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:38:58 +0000

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> If there is no objection, I'll push the change later today. First I want 
>>>> to look at the impact on a few other bugs and run the dump demos script.
>>>
>>> I don't have an objection, but I find the patch too complicated. The
>>> FLTK backend should simply use get_boundingbox and set_boundingbox
>>> functions.
>>>
>>> Michael.
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> To simplify things, the get_boundingbox and set_boudingbox methods for 
>> figure objects can be modified to set the origin in the UL corner.

They already do. That's (partially) why they're made for.

>> Do you think this is an appropriate approach?
>>
>> Or, might a 3rd boolean input be added get_boundingbox to allow the origin 
>> to be selected as LL or UL ?

Possibly, but I don't see the usefulness at the moment. Any windowing
toolkit I know always uses the UL corner as origin. Only Matlab
doesn't use that reference, god only knows why... ;)

Michael.


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