Timeline for How to position legends exactly where I want them?
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| Nov 27, 2012 at 22:16 | vote | accept | Mike Honeychurch | ||
| Jun 28, 2012 at 2:21 | comment | added | Mike Honeychurch | @Jens The occasional difficulty I have when clicking in the graphics window is not specific to your code, it is whenever I use that interface. Occasionlly a cell suddenly turns into an input cell when I click on graphics as well. Consequently I tend to not use it. But a key thing is that using locators makes it very easy to extract the exact positioning so that you have stand alone code for later use. I'm not sure how big a priority having professional looking legends is so maybe there won't be any changes in V9. I'd be surprised if rolling your own wouldn't always be a better option actually. | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 1:39 | comment | added | Jens | yes, that's why I'm not posting an answer right now because this question explicitly asks for locators, and yours works great. I think I know how to fix my approach using DrawingTools to make it less finicky, and I already settled on a way to make the label movable outside the plot as well - see here. I bet a combination of these partial solutions would be great - and right when we have solved it all, Wolfram will release a new version that has perfect labeling (I wish). | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 1:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/218155941558886401 | ||
| Jun 28, 2012 at 0:51 | comment | added | Mike Honeychurch | Hi @Jens. I had seen that though had forgotten it. The reason I made this is to be able to locate the legends outside the plotted area. Unless I have misunderstood the movie, which I just had a look at, the method locates within the plotted area. Also I have found DrawingTools very "finicky" for selecting elements in a graphic and much prefer using locators. Finally this method makes it easy to retrieve the static code for repetitive positioning once you find something you like (InputForm[p2]). | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 0:03 | comment | added | Jens | You've probably seen it, but just in case someone else is interested: there is a movie I made to describe how legend positioning works without locators: have a look at this answer to the question Creating legends for plots with multiple lines? | |
| Jun 27, 2012 at 22:38 | history | edited | Brett Champion |
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| Jun 27, 2012 at 22:22 | answer | added | Mike Honeychurch | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 27, 2012 at 22:19 | history | asked | Mike Honeychurch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |