Fix setting artists properties of selectors #20693

ericpre · 2021-07-20T14:10:36Z

PR Summary

Fix #20618 by adding set_props and set_handle_props method. ~~This PR needs a bit of tidying up but I would like to know if we are happy with this approach!~~

A few others changes:

selector.artists is now a property returning a tuple of all artists to disallow changing the artists through a public API
Add _selection_artist and _handles_artists to access the corresponding artists internally. ~~Remove the use of SpanSelector._rect and other, because it is already accessible through artists[0], maybe this is still better to keep a separate attribute?~~

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.widgets import SpanSelector
import numpy as np

values = np.arange(-10, 100)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot()
ax.plot(values, values)

span = SpanSelector(ax, print, "horizontal", interactive=True)

span.set_props(color='green')
span.set_handle_props(color='green')

Alternative could be:

use props and handle_props setter
add methods to get artists, something along the line of: get_main_artist get_handle_artists, which could use as span.get_main_artist().set(facecolor='green'), for get_handle_artists, it would be necessary to loop over the tuple

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Has pytest style unit tests (and pytest passes).
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New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
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[n/a] API changes documented in doc/api/next_api_changes/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).

ericpre · 2021-07-20T14:12:29Z

@larsoner, does this API look good to you?

larsoner · 2021-07-20T16:41:49Z

Yep, and I tested it and it seems to work for us!

ericpre · 2021-07-20T20:22:46Z

Great, thanks @larsoner!

ericpre · 2021-07-27T14:09:25Z

This is ready for review

timhoffm · 2021-07-27T23:29:59Z

Remove the use of SpanSelector._rect and other, because it is already accessible through artists[0], maybe this is still better to keep a separate attribute?

I don't think this is a good idea. Having artists[0] implicitly be the selection artist is confusing. We should give these concepts names: selection_artist and handle_artists.

Should we keep them internal (and have public set_props and set_handle_props) or follow

add methods to get artists, something along the line of: get_main_artist get_handle_artists, which could use as span.get_main_artist().set(facecolor='green'), for get_handle_artists, it would be necessary to loop over the tuple
?

That depends: How much control do we want to give to the user? set_props and set_handle_props is quite a limited API, which is good in a way. Do we anticipate that getters will be needed as well? Do we anticipate that handles may become more complex, e.g. a combination of markers and lines, that a single setter cannot address?

ericpre · 2021-07-28T08:44:29Z

Remove the use of SpanSelector._rect and other, because it is already accessible through artists[0], maybe this is still better to keep a separate attribute?

I don't think this is a good idea. Having artists[0] implicitly be the selection artist is confusing. We should give these concepts names: selection_artist and handle_artists.

Agreed, I have added a _selection_artists property.

add methods to get artists, something along the line of: get_main_artist get_handle_artists, which could use as span.get_main_artist().set(facecolor='green'), for get_handle_artists, it would be necessary to loop over the tuple
?

That depends: How much control do we want to give to the user? set_props and set_handle_props is quite a limited API, which is good in a way. Do we anticipate that getters will be needed as well? Do we anticipate that handles may become more complex, e.g. a combination of markers and lines, that a single setter cannot address?

I would lean toward keeping it simple for now!

lib/matplotlib/widgets.py

ericpre · 2021-07-29T10:17:55Z

lib/matplotlib/widgets.py

            self._direction = direction
            self.new_axes(self.ax)
            if self._interactive:
-                self._setup_edge_handle(self._edge_handles._line_props)
+                line = self._edge_handles.artists[0]
+                line_props = dict(alpha=line.get_alpha(),


Is there a way to get the properties relevant to axvline (the kwargs of axvline)? line.properties() returns too many properties.

Not directly. https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline says

Valid keyword arguments are Line2D properties, with the exception of 'transform'.

That's because it's a Line2D, but we enforce the vertical placement using a transform, so this is not user-settable.

Yes, indeed, but there are also other properties (internal properties?), which are not listed in https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots() line = ax.axvline(1.5) props = line.properties() del props['transform'] line.set(**props)

Will give the following error:

File "/home/eric/Dev/others/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py", line 115, in <lambda> cls.set = lambda self, **kwargs: Artist.set(self, **kwargs) File "/home/eric/Dev/others/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py", line 1155, in set return self.update(kwargs) File "/home/eric/Dev/others/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py", line 1060, in update raise AttributeError(f"{type(self).__name__!r} object " AttributeError: 'Line2D' object has no property 'children'

timhoffm

Essentially looks good.

Since for now, we seem to need the update, set_props() and set_handle_props() are the right way to go. In that case, do people still need access to the properties artists, selection_artist, handle_artists? If not, I'd start with keeping them private to keep the public API small. We can always make them public later if needed.

timhoffm · 2021-07-30T12:40:42Z

lib/matplotlib/widgets.py

            self._direction = direction
            self.new_axes(self.ax)
            if self._interactive:
-                self._setup_edge_handle(self._edge_handles._line_props)
+                line = self._edge_handles.artists[0]
+                line_props = dict(alpha=line.get_alpha(),


Not directly. https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.axvline says

Valid keyword arguments are Line2D properties, with the exception of 'transform'.

That's because it's a Line2D, but we enforce the vertical placement using a transform, so this is not user-settable.

ericpre · 2021-08-05T11:12:46Z

This is ready for review, I have updated the description of the PR to reflect the current state.

lib/matplotlib/widgets.py

Co-authored-by: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>

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ericpre · 2021-08-21T11:08:26Z

Thanks @QuLogic for the review, all comments should be sorted!

lib/matplotlib/tests/test_widgets.py

lib/matplotlib/widgets.py

Co-authored-by: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>

ericpre · 2021-08-24T18:38:56Z

Thanks @timhoffm, all done - CI had some hiccups and I restarted it.

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timhoffm · 2021-08-24T20:47:19Z

Thanks @ericpre!

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Protect Selector.artists attribute

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Fix deprecated attribute and add new feature entry

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