What is the relationship between theme and attributes?

[wsrinin]

Hi,

I was wondering what is the relationship between theme and attributes. For example, if I update one of the Attributes in attribute do the attributes in theme get update as well?

Best,

[SimonDanisch]

Can you give an example code sample of what you mean?

[kunzaatko]

@SimonDanisch There is not much to go by from the docs when defining recipes. It only uses either Theme or Attributes, never both.

For example if I want a recipe that uses both a Theme and Attributes I would expect something like this to work

@recipe(MyPlot) do scene
    Theme(
        a = :red
     )
    Attributes(
        b = :blue
    )
end

But it does not. I can not access both myplot.a and myplot.b in the plot! function. This should be somehow specified in the docs. Is there a way how to use both? I can then add it to the docs.

[asinghvi17]

Theme is just a shorthand for Attributes. I think it was introduced because we were planning on moving away from Attributes, but I'm not 100% sure.

julia> Theme
Attributes

julia> Attributes
Attributes

julia> Theme == Attributes
true

To answer your question, the preferred route is to just use Theme.

[kunzaatko]

OK then. Thank you. I will change Attributes in the documentation to avoid more confusion then and submit a PR. Then this issue can maybe be closed?

[kunzaatko]

I don't know why it included the other commits... Why is this?

[Moelf]

this is such a foot gun, have we decided what to use? if so we should remove all Attributes in docs at least, and throw a deprecation in code, I can do it