Recipe usage

[henry2004y]

Hello,

Originally I posted a question on Discourse, but no one responded. I explained my confusion when using the recipes in Makie. Can you offer me some help in getting this through?

Basically I am asking about two things:

1. How to correctly use recipe for Makie, with a minimal working example? The complete example shown in the Full Recipes section is a little bit hard to follow for me, even though it actually works.
2. What is the difference between MakieRecipes.jl and the convert_arguments() or @recipe stuff?

The details are explained in the linked post. Thanks for your response ahead!

[henry2004y]

I have seen something in the Makie milestone related to this. Hopefully it can be made easier to use and with better tutorial!

[jkrumbiegel]

Hi, I've updated the recipe example a couple days ago, could you have a look and comment here if you still don't understand? Then I could try to address those problems

[henry2004y]

Oh I haven't notice that! Yes I will check it soon. Thanks for letting me know! I'll provide some feedback later.

[henry2004y]

The full recipe documentation is good. The part I don't quite understand is the type recipes. Similar to the issue described in the discourse thread, I haven't managed to make it work for my type.

using Makie

struct MyType
   data::Vector
end

convert_arguments(P::Type{<:AbstractPlot}, x::MyType) = (P,rand(10))

fig = Figure(resolution = (800, 500), backgroundcolor = RGBf0(0.98, 0.98, 0.98))
ax1 = fig[1, 1] = Axis(fig, title = "test")

mydata = MyType(ones(10))
plot!(mydata, color=:red)
fig

it returned

ERROR: LoadError: Plotting for the arguments (::MyType) not defined. If you want to support those arguments, overload plot!(plot::Plot(MyType,))

How to make this work? Can you help me?

[goretkin]

What is the difference between MakieRecipes.jl and the convert_arguments() or @recipe stuff?

It appears that MakieRecipes.jl is intended (i.e. it isn't finished) to allow recipes defined with https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl for the Plots.jlworld to be re-purposed for use with the AbstractPlotting.jl world.

I think someone might be reasonable confused about the two kinds of recipes within the JuliaPlots org, and it might be worth mentioning in the documentation that they (unless I am mistaken) are not immediately interchangeable.

Am I right in understanding that if package Foo.jl wants to implement a Plots.jl-recipe, Foo.jl must depend on RecipesBase.jl, whereas to implement a Makie.jl-recipe, Foo.jl must depend on AbstractPlotting.jl?

[henry2004y]

It appears that MakieRecipes.jl is intended (i.e. it isn't finished) to allow recipes defined with https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl for the Plots.jlworld to be re-purposed for use with the AbstractPlotting.jl world.

This is my impression too. However as a user I tend to be lost in the progress of development. Another issue #893 also mentioned the current failure of the recipe system and I am looking forward to the fixes.

[ffreyer]

I'm closing this as outdated/fixed by docs updates