Layoutables

Layoutables are objects which can be added to a Figure or Scene and have their location and size controlled by a GridLayout. In of itself, a Layoutable is an abstract type. A Figure has its own internal GridLayout and therefore offers simplified syntax for adding layoutables to it. If you want to work with a bare Scene, you can attach a GridLayout to its pixel area. The layoutscene function is supplied for this purpose.

Adding to a Figure

Here's one way to add a Layoutable, in this case an Axis, to a Figure.

using CairoMakie

f = Figure()
ax = Axis(f[1, 1])
f

Adding to a Scene

And here's how you can add the same Layoutable to a Scene, which is the primitive object underlying a Figure. As discussed above, layoutscene is an older convenience method to create a Scene with an attached GridLayout that tracks its size. This is mostly not needed anymore since Figures were added.

using CairoMakie

scene, layout = layoutscene()
ax = layout[1, 1] = Axis(scene)
scene

Specifying a boundingbox directly

Sometimes you just want to place a Layoutable in a specific location, without it being controlled by a dynamic layout. You can do this by setting the bbox parameter, which is usually controlled by the layout, manually. The boundingbox should be a 2D Rect, and can also be an Observable if you plan to change it dynamically. The function BBox creates an Rect2f, but instead of passing origin and widths, you pass left, right, bottom and top boundaries directly.

Here's an example where two axes are placed manually:

using CairoMakie

f = Figure()
Axis(f, bbox = BBox(100, 300, 100, 500), title = "Axis 1")
Axis(f, bbox = BBox(400, 700, 200, 400), title = "Axis 2")
f

Deleting layoutables

To remove layoutables from their layout and the figure or scene, use delete!(layoutable).