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background color of text is forground color on MacOSX #4609
Description
With MacOSX backend, the following fails:
from pylab import *
plot([1, 2, 3])
text(1, 2, 'Hello', backgroundcolor = 'red')
This plots a nice red box but no text. It looks like the backgroundcolor is set as the foreground.
mpl version 1.4.3
backend: MacOSX
Works correctly with Qt4Agg and, as reported on mailinglist, works correctly with TkAgg
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jenshnielsen commentedon Jul 9, 2015
Confirming that I see the same with the OSX backend
jenshnielsen commentedon Jul 9, 2015
This could be related to #4024, see #4202 too
efiring commentedon Jul 9, 2015
#4202 doesn't fix it. This looks like a different problem. Strangely, the text is very faintly visible as a slight lightening of the red. This is easier to see if you use
fontsize=30. At least at the Python level, the default text color is not being overwritten by the background. I don't know what is happening inside the extension code.attn: @mdehoon
mdehoon commentedon Jul 9, 2015
I can't reproduce this bug. It's working fine for me with the MacOSX backend, matplotlib version 1.4.3.
efiring commentedon Jul 9, 2015
@mbakker7 and @mdehoon which Python versions are you using? I tested with python 3. We have had several cases where the change between py2 and py3 in the order of iteration through a dictionary (such as kwargs in a function call) caused problems under py3.
mdehoon commentedon Jul 9, 2015
@efiring Thanks! That is indeed the issue. With Python3, I am seeing this bug. Let me look into this.
mdehoon commentedon Jul 10, 2015
See pull request #4617 for a bug fix.
jenshnielsen commentedon Jul 11, 2015
Fixed by #4617
mbakker7 commentedon Jul 11, 2015
Sorry for the late reply: I have the problem with Python 2.7.9-1. Got the
bug on two separate Macs, one with mpl 1.4.3, one with mpl 1.4.0, so it has
been around for a little while.
Thanks for looking into this,
Mark
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Eric Firing notifications@github.com
wrote:
jenshnielsen commentedon Jul 11, 2015
@mbakker7 Thanks for the confirmation
If you have a chance please test master and report it it fixes it for you