Different styles for objetcs with the same text

[CapitanPrimate]

Hello.

First of all, thank you very much for this great piece of work.

In my daily work I generate "heat tables" which consist of cells with fixed colors and varying values, like the example below:

I have seen in the documentation that you can define the attributes for certain objets by selecting them via regular expressions. For example, I could select the cell with the value/id "18" and make it have a yellow background. But that wouldn't work with cells containing the value/id "1", since they need different colors.

Is there a way to accomplish this with shaape?

Thanks in advance.

[christiangoltz]

Hi @CapitanPrimate,
this is not supported out of the box. Unfortunately I didn't implement a method to name the shapes without showing the names.

There are 2 possibilities that I see:

1. There is a very stupid version that I think might work:
   Draw your boxes like this

+-------+
| green |
| +---+ |
| | 1 | |
| +---+ |
+-------+

After that you can use the styling to style the inner rectangle (which would match [0-9]+) to have an invisible frame and background by setting the alpha to 0. Additionally you would style the green box to have a green background and invisible text. In theory this will give you a black number in front of a green box. I didn't try this though, but would be really interesting to see ;)

2. As I am not actively building new features for this, you could still do named shapes yourself and submit a pull request, e.g. extend the TextParser and Text to support something like actual names, maybe denoted by a colon at the start of the text and then change the drawing backend to only draw text that isn't names.

[CapitanPrimate]

Thank you for your quick response, @christiangoltz !

Based on your suggestion, I tried this:

+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|y    |y    |r    |r    |r    |
|  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |
|     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|g    |y    |r    |r    |r    |
|  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  A  |
|     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|g    |y    |y    |y    |r    |
|  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |  F  |
|     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|g    |y    |y    |y    |y    |
|  G  |  H  |  I  |  J  |  K  |
|     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|g    |g    |g    |g    |y    |
|  L  |  M  |  N  |  Ñ  |  O  |
|     |     |     |     |     |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
options:
- ".*" : {text : ["Sans 16"]}
- "r" : {text : ["Sans 11", [0, 0, 0, 0]], fill : [[1.0000, 0.3451, 0.3961, 1]]}
- "g" : {text : ["Sans 11", [0, 0, 0, 0]], fill : [[1.0000, 0.9686, 0.4941, 1]]}
- "y" : {text : ["Sans 11", [0, 0, 0, 0]], fill : [[0.7020, 0.8941, 0.5529, 1]]}

and got this:

Works like a charm!

However, in order to get the same image of my original post (white text on red background, black text elsewhere), your solution will apply perfectly.

Regarding item 2, I am not fluent in Python, but I can take a look at it ;)

Thank you very much again!