Re: new snapshot?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> it's been 5 months and almost 700 changesets since 3.3.50. What about
> a new snapshot now?
> Regarding 3.4.0, I'd like to still try to address at least these two projects:
> 
> 1. merge the MArray classes
> 2. legends in FLTK backend
> 
> 1 is straightforward, just wants some code manipulation to do. 2 will
> probably be a more difficult task.
> 
> Any other projects to be completed prior to 3.4.0?

Regarding the legends, current the gnuplot backend uses gnuplot's legend 
feature. For compatibility the legend should be constructed as an instance of 
an axes object. What I'm leading up to is that I expect most of the work will 
be agnostic to the backend, and should work with gnuplot as well.

There are (were?) two missing features that I expect would make the job of 
implementing a compatible legend easier.

(1) Method to determine the "extent" property for text objects

(2) Listeners to convert property values when the "units" property is changed.

Ben