background color of text plots as foreground

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Hello list,

I am trying to set the backgroundcolor of a textbox:

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. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? mpl version 1.4.3

Thanks, Mark

2

Which backend are you using? It works fine for me with a recent-ish master using Qt4Agg backend.

Ben Root

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Mark Bakker <markbak@…287…> wrote:

Hello list,

I am trying to set the backgroundcolor of a textbox:

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. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? mpl version 1.4.3

Thanks, Mark

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Works for me with TkAgg backend on 1.4.3.

-Sterling

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On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:52AM, Mark Bakker <markbak@...287...> wrote:

Hello list,

I am trying to set the backgroundcolor of a textbox:

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. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? mpl version 1.4.3

Thanks, Mark

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Fails on MacOSX backend.

Just tried it, and it works fine with the QT backend.

So I guess a MacOSX bug…

Thanks for your help,

Mark

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Sterling Smith <smithsp@…713…304…> wrote:

Works for me with TkAgg backend on 1.4.3.

-Sterling

On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:52AM, Mark Bakker <markbak@…287…> wrote:

Hello list,

I am trying to set the backgroundcolor of a textbox:

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. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? mpl version 1.4.3

Thanks, Mark

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