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Subject: Re: [kde-edu]: KPlotWidget ideas
From: "Andreas Nicolai" <Andreas.Nicolai () gmx ! net>
Date: 2005-06-20 12:35:10
Message-ID: opssn48w1mt8lo91 () smtp ! kuleuven ! ac ! be
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Hello,
> 1) I'd like to rename some functions in KPlotAxis to make it clearer
> what they do. The functions that deal with tickmark labels are named
> with "label", which is a bit confusing, because label() and setLabel()
> refer to the *axis* label, not the tick labels. I'd like to change to
> "tick" in the following functions:
>
> labelFieldWidth() --> tickFieldWidth()
> setLabelFormat() --> setTickFormat()
> labelFmt() --> tickFormat()
> labelPrec() --> tickPrecision()
>
> ...or maybe "tickLabel" instead of "tick"? too wordy?
Agreed, I was thinking about that as well. I'd prefer replacing label with tickLabel \
and I wouldn't mind the extra typing :-)
> 2) Should we add RightAxis and TopAxis, which can be independent of
> BottomAxis and LeftAxis? I already use this in my subclass
> (KStarsPlotWidget), but one could argue that we don't need this in the
> base class.
Yes, per default right and top axes labeling should be turned off, tick mark drawing \
is on by default.
> 3) Control over whether to show axes, tickmarks, and tick labels should
> be moved to KPlotAxis, so that it can be controlled separately for each
> axis. Maybe still have some convenience functions in KPlotWidget to
> control both axes at once. Maybe instead of using DataRect in
> KPlotWidget, we should keep the limits in KPlotAxis as well
> (KPlotAxis::min() and max()).
Yes, that's what I had in mind. We can even "outsource" the axis drawing code to each \
axis object and let the plot widget simply call each axis to draw itself.
Technical Design Question: If we move the drawing and padding rendering functionality \
to each axis, we could provide the means that a user can subclass an axis and provide \
his own axis drawing implementation. Do you think this is reasonable? That would mean \
that axis objects are access rather like:
plotWidget->LeftAxis()->setTickLabelFormat(...)
and we need to provide extra functions like:
MyOwnAxis * axis = MyOwnAxis();
plotWidget->setLeftAxis(axis); // assigns user define axis
plotWidget->resetLeftAxis(); // assigns default axis
What do you think?
Bye,
Andreas
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