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fix(labels): separate per-render categorical legends with distinct palettes - #723
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01120e5Compare…lettes (#364) Stacking multiple categorical `render_labels` calls produced a single merged legend (scanpy's bare `ax.legend()` auto-collected every labeled artist and dropped the previous legend) and reused the same default palette, so the overlaid layers were indistinguishable. - Each categorical render now gets its own legend; 2nd+ legends are built with explicit handles and laid out left-to-right along the top margin in a post-render pass (`_layout_panel_legends_rightward`), robust to tall legends and `constrained_layout` reflow. Only legends this code owns (tagged `_sdata_column`) are touched, so fill/outline and channel legends keep their placement. - Later categorical label renders offset into the palette to skip colors already used on the panel (`_next_palette_colors`), keeping layers distinct. - A legend is titled by its column only when 2+ legends share an axis (to tell them apart); a lone legend stays untitled. - Shared helpers `_legend_ncol`, `_categorical_legend_handles`, and `_default_categorical_palette` remove duplicated logic. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…tically The per-render categorical legends (#364) were laid left-to-right in figure fraction with no width budget, so a 2nd legend overflowed the figure's right edge (clipped, or rescued by bbox_inches=tight into a wide gap). Stack them top-to-bottom in the right margin instead — the standard right-margin convention — so wide legends grow figure height on save rather than running off the right. Also title a lone categorical legend by its source column (it previously went through scanpy's untitled right-margin path), matching the colorbar auto-title and the 2+-legend behavior.
Anchor the stacked per-render legends in axes-fraction (not figure-fraction): when constrained_layout reserves right-margin space and rescales the axes, the legends move with it instead of leaving a gap that shrinks the plot to a thumbnail. Title each legend by its color column; assert palette offset accumulates across 3 renders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
#364) Every categorical legend is now titled by its color column (consistent with colorbars), and 2+ legends stack in the right margin; regenerate the affected image baselines from CI's renderer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A legend is a fixed-pixel artist, so its axes-fraction footprint shifts whenever the axes is rescaled (constrained_layout, or a figure resize) — placing it once is unstable and overlaps/squashes. Mirror what colorbars get for free from their self-rescaling insets: recompute the side-by-side offsets on every draw via a draw_event callback, measuring each legend at the geometry actually rendered. Lone legends stay untitled in scanpy's default spot; 2+ are titled by their color column and laid left-to-right. Revert the single-legend baselines (unchanged now) to base; only the two two-element shapes plots change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…de legends (#364) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cleanup - Use the draw event's renderer (valid on PDF/SVG/PGF) instead of the Agg-only fig.canvas.get_renderer(); fixes a crash when saving a 2-legend plot to a vector format. - Guard leg.set_loc() for matplotlib < 3.8 (matching render.py). - Replace per-panel draw_event callbacks with a single connect-once figure-level dispatcher that repositions all panels (no unbounded re-registration on reuse). - Reuse _categorical_legend_handles in _add_outline_legend; trim redundant comments; warn when the palette can't keep stacked legends distinct. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes#364.
Stacking categorical
render_labelscalls gave one merged legend (scanpy's bareax.legend()collected every artist and dropped the prior legend) with reused colors._sdata_column, so fill/outline & channel legends are untouched).