Changes for 0.42

.. code-block:: text

• Refactoring AxisText to be backend independent. Text drawing and get_window_extent functionality will be moved to the Renderer.

• backend_bases.AxisTextBase is now text.Text module

• All the erase and reset functionality removed from AxisText - not needed with double buffered drawing. Ditto with state change. Text instances have a get_prop_tup method that returns a hashable tuple of text properties which you can use to see if text props have changed, e.g., by caching a font or layout instance in a dict with the prop tup as a key -- see RendererGTK.get_pango_layout in backend_gtk for an example.

• Text._get_xy_display renamed Text.get_xy_display

• Artist set_renderer and wash_brushes methods removed

• Moved Legend class from matplotlib.axes into matplotlib.legend

• Moved Tick, XTick, YTick, Axis, XAxis, YAxis from matplotlib.axes to matplotlib.axis

• moved process_text_args to matplotlib.text

• After getting Text handled in a backend independent fashion, the import process is much cleaner since there are no longer cyclic dependencies

• matplotlib.matlab._get_current_fig_manager renamed to matplotlib.matlab.get_current_fig_manager to allow user access to the GUI window attribute, e.g., figManager.window for GTK and figManager.frame for wx