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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"New \"vector\" method to replace \"arrow\"","articleBody":"It was decided in the dev call today that we want to deprecate `arrow()` because of its awkward dependence on the axis scales. ...\r\n\r\nAs an alternative, we want to introduce a similar replacement `vector(x, y, dx, dy, ...)` where the parameters are still in data space, but the arrow shape is not tied to the data. This should be implemented based on `FancyArrowPatch` which is also the basis for `annotate()` arrows. The additional parameters will be governed by the `FancyArrowPatch` capabilities, maybe be simply `arrowprops` like in `annotate()`. We may try to make an effort to choose their defaults in a way that will result in an arrow similar to `arrow()` with default settings. Whether that's possible and reasonable is to be tested.\r\n\r\nThe `arrow()` deprecation should point to `vector()` and `annotate()` depending on users needs.\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @timhoffm in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/22382#issuecomment-1029506756_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jklymak","@type":"Person","name":"jklymak"},"datePublished":"2022-02-04T08:14:41.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/22390/matplotlib/issues/22390"}