From 90588018a63b470e72c32ec8783fd6ce3277891f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tyler Goodlet Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:06:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Label doc tweak --- piker/ui/_label.py | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/piker/ui/_label.py b/piker/ui/_label.py index 8f776279..bf05c2ac 100644 --- a/piker/ui/_label.py +++ b/piker/ui/_label.py @@ -89,11 +89,16 @@ def right_axis( class Label: """ + A plain ol' "scene label" using an underlying ``QGraphicsTextItem``. + After hacking for many days on multiple "label" systems inside ``pyqtgraph`` yet again we're left writing our own since it seems - all of those are over complicated, ad-hoc, pieces of garbage that - can't accomplish the simplest things, such as pinning to the left - hand side of a view box. + all of those are over complicated, ad-hoc, transform-mangling, + messes which can't accomplish the simplest things via their inputs + (such as pinning to the left hand side of a view box). + + Here we do the simple thing where the label uses callables to figure + out the (x, y) coordinate "pin point": nice and simple. This type is another effort (see our graphics) to start making small, re-usable label components that can actually be used to build @@ -104,6 +109,7 @@ class Label: self, view: pg.ViewBox, + fmt_str: str, color: str = 'bracket', x_offset: float = 0,