Makie Roadmap [WIP]

[SimonDanisch]

• colorsampler interface + alpha keyword
• resizing plots with multiple array attributes consistently (e.g. scatter(rand(5), color=rand(5)))
• data space + marker space
• text + scatter shader rewrite
• WidgetsBase.jl integration
• Improve how attributes work document & implement refactor goals JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl#360
• Merge MakieLayout
• Data transforms (log axis etc)
• Merge most code shared in WGLMakie & GLMakie
• clean up recipes

[asinghvi17]

I wonder if WidgetsBase could be integrated into MakieLayout now? It seems like nearly all of the widgets are, or will soon be supported there.

[SimonDanisch]

Yeah we should integrate them in the final version with the MakieLayout widgets!
But I may want to quickly do a first integration with Makie before that, to already figure out the problems with that ;) Makie widgets are much easier, so I assume it will be quite simple to this...

[asinghvi17]

Sorry for the noise, was trying to see if I could put this in multiple milestones at once, but it doesn't seem like it.

[KronosTheLate]

Shouldn't the "Log axis" box get a well-earned tickmark? ^_^

[Masacroso]

* [ ]  colorsampler interface + alpha keyword

* [ ]  resizing plots with multiple array attributes consistently (e.g. `scatter(rand(5), color=rand(5))`)

* [ ]  data space + marker space

* [ ]  text + scatter shader rewrite

* [ ]  WidgetsBase.jl integration

* [ ]  Improve how attributes work [document & implement refactor goals AbstractPlotting.jl#360](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl/pull/360)

* [ ]  Merge MakieLayout

* [x]  Data transforms (log axis etc)

* [ ]  Merge most code shared in WGLMakie & GLMakie

* [ ]  clean up recipes

You forget here the more important point of all for any package: the documentation. As today the documentation is TERRIBLE, I wasted many hours trying to figure how to color a surface point to point... I just deduced a solution reading a post in the forum of Julia. After, I was trying to figure out what kind of types are valid for the function surface, I just find (by trial and error) just one valid type.

Seriously, its a pain to try to do something with this library due to the lack of documentation.

[jkrumbiegel]

Hey, leave such negativity somewhere else please. We don't need our hard volunteer work disparaged like that. If you find the documentation lacking, you can always help adding to it.

[KronosTheLate]

To add to @jkrumbiegel's response, I actually think it looks like documenting something as enormous as a plotting library is extremely difficult, and that the job done is really impressive. I generally find it sufficient to find out how to do everything I want to.

[asinghvi17]

AFAIK the third point (data + marker space) has been implemented in the :pixel, :clip, :data spaces as of 0.17?

[Moelf]

I'd like to help with cleaning up recipes and add stephist, any words on what's the guiding principle and desired outcome of clean up? maybe it takes a veteran to do it since it's quite nuance

[andreasvarga]

I would propose to add the following (if possible with high priority):

Allow to bring up a figure with CairoMakie from the REPL alone like Plots.jl can.

[SimonDanisch]

That should be working as of [email protected]

[SimonDanisch]

Ah, but you need to call Makie.inline!(false) though..

[andreasvarga]

Sorry, but I was not able to plot from REPL.

julia> using CairoMakie

julia> CairoMakie.scatter(rand(10))
FigureAxisPlot()

julia> display(CairoMakie.scatter(rand(10)))
FigureAxisPlot()

julia> CairoMakie.inline!(false)
ERROR: UndefVarError: inline! not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(x::Module, f::Symbol)
   @ Base .\Base.jl:31
 [2] top-level scope
   @ REPL[10]:1

julia> CairoMakie.inline(false)
ERROR: UndefVarError: inline not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(x::Module, f::Symbol)
   @ Base .\Base.jl:31
 [2] top-level scope
   @ REPL[11]:1

(@v1.8) pkg> status CairoMakie
Status `C:\Users\Andreas\.julia\environments\v1.8\Project.toml`
  [13f3f980] CairoMakie v0.9.3

[SimonDanisch]

Makie.inline!...somehow the re-export doesn't work, would be nice to fix 🤷‍♂️