This is a collection of thoughts on AIDA Styles and on their use in the new plotter.
Style Store
This is an object that can save and retrieve styles from a store (xml file on disk, database table). The basic xml style definition is the AIDA one. Next to the style itself we also identified the need to define Style Rules that should also be saved/retrieved to/from the store.
Style Rules
It should be possible to define rules on how to attach a style to a particular plot object. It should be possible to apply rules to:
- object type: hep.aida.IHistogram1D, org.myproject.MyData1D
- object path: with path expressions like "MC/**"
- plot order: a specific order position, 0, 7 or a cyclical recurrence (3) -> every third plot
- action: like printing (plots for printing might require less details)
- category: "experiment=GLAST, quality=preliminary"