integrate colorpalettes in pgfplotsx

src/backends/gr.jl

@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ function gr_draw_colorbar(cbar::GRColorbar, sp::Subplot, clims)
     GR.setwindow(xmin, xmax, zmin, zmax)
     if !isempty(cbar.gradients)
         series = cbar.gradients
-        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(gr_get_color.(series),"color"))
+        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(get_colorgradient.(series),"color"))
         gr_set_transparency(_cbar_unique(get_fillalpha.(series), "fill alpha"))
         GR.cellarray(xmin, xmax, zmax, zmin, 1, 256, 1000:1255)
     end
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ function gr_draw_colorbar(cbar::GRColorbar, sp::Subplot, clims)
     if !isempty(cbar.fills)
         series = cbar.fills
         GR.setfillintstyle(GR.INTSTYLE_SOLID)
-        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(gr_get_color.(series), "color"))
+        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(get_colorgradient.(series), "color"))
         gr_set_transparency(_cbar_unique(get_fillalpha.(series), "fill alpha"))
         levels = _cbar_unique(contour_levels.(series, Ref(clims)), "levels")
         # GR implicitly uses the maximal z value as the highest level
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ function gr_draw_colorbar(cbar::GRColorbar, sp::Subplot, clims)
 
     if !isempty(cbar.lines)
         series = cbar.lines
-        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(gr_get_color.(series),"color"))
+        gr_set_gradient(_cbar_unique(get_colorgradient.(series),"color"))
         gr_set_line(_cbar_unique(get_linewidth.(series), "line width"),
                     _cbar_unique(get_linestyle.(series), "line style"),
                     _cbar_unique(get_linecolor.(series, Ref(clims)), "line color"))
@@ -657,25 +657,10 @@ function gr_set_gradient(c)
 end
 
 function gr_set_gradient(series::Series)
-    color = gr_get_color(series)
+    color = get_colorgradient(series)
     color !== nothing && gr_set_gradient(color)
 end
 
-function gr_get_color(series::Series)
-    st = series[:seriestype]
-    if st in (:surface, :heatmap) || isfilledcontour(series)
-        series[:fillcolor]
-    elseif st in (:contour, :wireframe)
-        series[:linecolor]
-    elseif series[:marker_z] !== nothing
-        series[:markercolor]
-    elseif series[:line_z] !==  nothing
-        series[:linecolor]
-    elseif series[:fill_z] !== nothing
-        series[:fillcolor]
-    end
-end
-
 # this is our new display func... set up the viewport_canvas, compute bounding boxes, and display each subplot
 function gr_display(plt::Plot, fmt="")
     GR.clearws()

src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl

@@ -200,12 +200,13 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
             # As it is likely that all series within the same axis use the same
             # colormap this should not cause any problem.
             for series in series_list(sp)
-                for col in (:markercolor, :fillcolor, :linecolor)
+                    if hascolorbar(series)
-                    if typeof(series.plotattributes[col]) == ColorGradient
+                        cg = get_colorgradient(series)
+                        cm = pgfx_colormap(get_colorgradient(series))
                         PGFPlotsX.push_preamble!(
                             pgfx_plot.the_plot,
                             """\\pgfplotsset{
-                            colormap={plots$(sp.attr[:subplot_index])}{$(pgfx_colormap(series.plotattributes[col]))},
+                            colormap={plots$(sp.attr[:subplot_index])}{$cm},
                             }""",
                         )
                         push!(
@@ -213,10 +214,16 @@ function (pgfx_plot::PGFPlotsXPlot)(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                             "colorbar" => nothing,
                             "colormap name" => "plots$(sp.attr[:subplot_index])",
                         )
+                        if cg isa ColorPalette
+                            push!(
+                                axis_opt,
+                                "colormap access" => "piecewise const",
+                                "colorbar sampled" => nothing,
+                            )
+                        end
                         # goto is needed to break out of col and series for
                         @goto colorbar_end
                     end
-                end
             end
             @label colorbar_end
 
@@ -677,13 +684,9 @@ function pgfx_filllegend!(series_opt, opt)
               }""")
 end
 
-function pgfx_colormap(grad::Union{ColorGradient, ColorPalette})
+pgfx_colormap(cl::PlotUtils.AbstractColorList) = pgfx_colormap(color_list(cl))
-    join(map(color_list(grad)) do c
+function pgfx_colormap(v::Vector{<:Colorant})
-        @sprintf("rgb=(%.8f,%.8f,%.8f)", red(c), green(c), blue(c))
+    join(map(v) do c
-    end, "\n")
-end
-function pgfx_colormap(grad::Vector{<:Colorant})
-    join(map(grad) do c
         @sprintf("rgb=(%.8f,%.8f,%.8f)", red(c), green(c), blue(c))
     end, "\n")
 end

src/examples.jl

@@ -1000,6 +1000,8 @@ _backend_skips = Dict(
         16, # pgfplots thinks the upper panel is too small
         22, # contourf
         23, # pie
+        25, # @df
+        30, # @df
         31, # animation
         32, # spy
         38, # histogram2d

src/utils.jl

@@ -541,6 +541,21 @@ for comp in (:line, :fill, :marker)
     end
 end
 
+function get_colorgradient(series::Series)
+    st = series[:seriestype]
+    if st in (:surface, :heatmap) || isfilledcontour(series)
+        series[:fillcolor]
+    elseif st in (:contour, :wireframe)
+        series[:linecolor]
+    elseif series[:marker_z] !== nothing
+        series[:markercolor]
+    elseif series[:line_z] !==  nothing
+        series[:linecolor]
+    elseif series[:fill_z] !== nothing
+        series[:fillcolor]
+    end
+end
+
 single_color(c, v = 0.5) = c
 single_color(grad::ColorGradient, v = 0.5) = grad[v]