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Re: Bug: ListPlot and Tooltip

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  • Subject: [mg102663] Re: Bug: ListPlot and Tooltip
  • From: Jens <noeckel at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <h5bk30$hja$1@smc.vnet.net> <h5jdkb$1a2$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Aug 17, 1:13 am, dr DanW <dmaxwar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jens,
> Nice solution.  Since I became interested in this problem, I started
> digging around in PlotLegends.m.  Here is the code used therein for
> default markers and colors:
>
> Graphics`PlotMarkers[]
>
> defaultcolors =
>        Table[
>             Hue[FractionalPart[0.67 + 2.0 (i - 1)/GoldenRatio], 0.6,
> 0.6],
>         {i, 1, n}]
>
> (Disclaimer: since this code was copied from a file with a Wolfram
> copyright, so I can't recommend that you use it directly.)

Thanks for the sleuthing. It would make a lot of sense if there were
functions such as DefaultPlotColors and DefaultPlotMarkers. The fact
that this is defined in PlotLegends.m instead of being imported from a
common location accessed by the actual [List]Plot routines seems
clumsy to me.


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