text object clipping

[ahed87]

Hi,
I stumbled over a bit of surprising behaviour when working with some plots with text and panning them.

Apperantly the default behaviour of text is not to have a clipbox/viewbox attached to them (other than figure canvas?).

A small sample code here.

plt.text(.5,.5,'center')
plt.text(.8,.8,'panned')
plt.text(1.1,0.3,'original position outside plot canvas')
plt.plot([0,1])

And the picture after a bit of panning.

Clearly the text object is not passed through the same clipping box as the line, I think that should be the default, and if someone wants to place text outside of the current viewbox of the axis, that could be a kwarg somehow.

Thanks for a great library.

[anntzer]

See #5554.
Closing but feel free to discuss more.

[WeatherGod]

Just as a quick summary of the issue (for those who don't want to click through), text objects added by ax.text() are not clipped by default (for a variety of reasons). If you want them clipped, then the `clip_on=True` parameter should be passed.

…

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Antony Lee ***@***.***> wrote: Closed #8506 <#8506>. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8506 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AARy-GNZBLPHNpkdIU962NUMQXcCCVRQks5rxSCNgaJpZM4NAvXg> .

[ahed87]

got it, had a feeling someone would have commented on it earlier...

any objections to an update of the docstring? if not I will give it a go.

[WeatherGod]

Docstring improvements are some of the best improvements! On Apr 18, 2017 6:16 PM, "ahed87" <notifications@github.com> wrote: got it, had a feeling someone would have commented on it earlier... any objections to an update of the docstring? if not I will give it a go. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8506 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AARy-OrDSrLKTUMeqOUbNgfpmVWyVzX7ks5rxTYfgaJpZM4NAvXg> .