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Change away from scatterpath to minimise confusion #434

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@nilshg nilshg commented Mar 30, 2021

scatterpath leads to lines being a different colour from markers, and the markers can end up being the same colour as different lines on the same plot, making the legend very confusing.

`scatterpath` leads to lines being a different colour from markers, and the markers can end up being the same colour as different lines on the same plot, making the legend very confusing.
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nilshg commented Mar 30, 2021

I've initially raised this on Zulip but thought I'd just PR straight away - this essentially moves us from
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If we are to go with this PR I would leave the marker be :circle, but actually I would prefer to fix scatterpath to have the same color for markers and line

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nilshg commented Apr 8, 2021

That's a very good point, I generally can't see why one would want different colours when plotting a scatterpath.

Is it this recipe here: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/blob/0a84ff8caff94e1923d379465d14998835e24d18/src/recipes.jl#L164?

I just monkey-patched it locally by adding color := 1 and that seems to do the trick, but I'm assuming that's a bit heavy handed. Not sure how to tell it to use the same color for both series without fixing the color?

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BeastyBlacksmith commented Apr 8, 2021

color := plotattr[:seriescolor] might work

Else making it a path with markers like in this PR should also work

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nilshg commented Apr 8, 2021

Sorry, can't get that to work - color := plotattr[:seriescolor] complains that there's no method matching getindex(::typeof(plotattr), ::Symbol) (is plotattr a function?), and any other changes I make to try and align it with what's in here give me a pretty inscrutable ERROR: The seriestype didn't change in series recipe scatterpath. This will cause a StackOverflow. Looks like this is beyond me!

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should be a dictionary, but maybe the name was plotattributes? Its some time I worked on this ^^;

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may be fixed by JuliaPlots/Plots.jl@64f3d58

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