Legend box overrides graphics

[Diego Manenti Martins]

When using series_label on BarPlot the legend box overrides graphis.
The attached patch solves it reducing 'plot_dimensions[main_dir]'.

[Rodrigo Moreira Araújo (alf-rodrigo)]

I've been thinking about a solution for this since I saw this bug.
I don't think that making the plotting area smaller is a solution.
I though of 2 other solutions:
 1 - Allow the user to select where the legend box will be plotted (one of the four corners);
 2 - Or maybe something like this [1]

I'm inclined to solution 1. What do you think?

[1] http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/homework06/1/bar1.JPG

[Diego Manenti Martins (dmmartins)]

2009/4/2 Rodrigo Moreira Araújo <email address hidden>:
> I've been thinking about a solution for this since I saw this bug.
> I don't think that making the plotting area smaller is a solution.
hum. works for me. but I don't like it :)

> I though of 2 other solutions:
>  1 - Allow the user to select where the legend box will be plotted (one of the four corners);
>  2 - Or maybe something like this [1]
>
> I'm inclined to solution 1. What do you think?
I prefer solution 2.
If all bars have the same size the legend box will override in any
place you put it.

>
> [1] http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/homework06/1/bar1.JPG

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diego

[Sebastien Cote (sebas642)]

If you implement solution 1, you can also define positions that are outside the graph. This way the solution works for all use cases.