Re: proposed changes to legend()

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Rik wrote:

> On 07/06/2013 05:18 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> Rik,
>> 
>> I thought I'd address this to you as the you and I have made most of recent 
>> changes to legend(), and I'd like to hear from someone familiar with 
>> legend.m before proceeding.
>> 
>> Since Octave has no way to reliably determine the tightinset for gnuplot, I 
>> am proposing implementing a different behavior for gnuplot and opengl.
>> 
>> In the case of gnuplot, my thought is to let gnuplot handle the location of 
>> the keybox and the plotbox (this requires that legend() set the 
>> activepositionproperty of the plotbox to "outerposition" when the keybox is 
>> outside the plotbox).
>> 
>> For opengl, the goal is full Matlab compatibility.
>> 
>> I have three changesets prepared (1) new demos which highlight the problems, 
>> (2) the new gnuplot behavior.  Which implements a behavior close to what was 
>> in the 3.2.x series. (3) fixes for opengl.  I've placed them on the patch 
>> tracker, and will follow up with pdf's of all the demos for both gnuplot and 
>> opengl shortly.
> 7/6/13
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I think what you are proposing is fine.  Supporting two graphics backends
> is difficult for such a small group of volunteers, and we know that the
> future for Octave lies with OpenGL and Qt.  Given that, implementing a few
> kluges for gnuplot, which are eventually going to be ripped out, seems like
> an expedient tactic.
> 
> --Rik

Ok. I'll proceed.

Ben