Curve label floating

[Roberto]

Hi,

In the past I (and I think others, too) requested for different text notes able to have different colors. The main use for that functionality is the clear and convenient look of a curve name having the same color as the curve itself (usually in multiple curve graphs).

Now basically there is an other feature for that purpose, namely the Curve labels. They very nicely have the same color as the curve it is related to.
Unfortunately they have a fixed location right after the last data point (do they?)
Using those in simple curves sometimes look a bit unpro if they happen to be placed over the titles or numbers of the right-hand y-axis.
In multiple curve graps it's even worse: curve labels might be placed over eachother and/or Y2 axis title/numbers.

Example: see image below

Feature request regarding this issue: ability to move curve labels around so they are not fixed to the location of the last data point of a curve.

Cheers,
Roberto

[DPlotAdmin]

Curve labels are from a very old version and though I did toy around with placement, I couldn't see a good way of allowing that without potentially breaking old graphs.

For what you want you should use Text>Label Points. Those labels can reference any point and be placed anywhere you want.

[Roberto]

Hi David,

The nice thing with curve labels is their font color being the same as the color of the curve.

Just checked out label points and indeed it comes with a very versatile dialog.
I totally forgot about that one! (Sometimes I don't use DPlot for quite a while javascript:emoticon(':oops:') ).

But it seems there's no way to set a font for the label points or am I wrong?
Not even through the text-fonts dialog where one can change fonts including a shared color. (Option "notes" is a different group of shared font properties).
Let alone giving label points the color of the graph itself.

What about at least adding "label points" to the text-fonts list? And perhaps a checkbox for font color = curve color? That would be really ideal

Cheers,

[Schwer]

How about making the curve labels movable like the Legend Box.
--len

[DPlotAdmin]

I don't think there is a good way to do that without breaking old graphs, sorry.

Point labels are the way to go. It isn't at all obvious (and I should probably make it so), but the same formatting codes you can use in most other text entries can also be used in point labels - you just don't have the buttons to make it easier. For example, {\cff0000label} gives you label, {\blabel} gives you label, etc.