Bug summary

I am trying to improve some edge cases for plotting arrows in adjustText. Without going into details, sometimes I have to use ax.annotate to add arrows instead of directly using FancyArrowPatch. However in this case the arrows are not associated with the text objects and strike through them. I thought I could modify the arrow patch of the Annotation object to point to the corresponding Text object. The object appears to be set correctly, however this doesn't fix the clipping of the arrow! With a regular FancyArrowPatch this procedure works just as expected. Interestingly, if I update other properties (color) it works perfectly.

(As an aside, why do the two arrows have a different style in the example below?)

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import patches
xytext = 0.2, 0.5
f, ax = plt.subplots()
ann = ax.annotate('', xy=(0.5, 0.6), xytext=xytext, arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->"))
ann_arrowpatch = ann.arrow_patch
print(ann_arrowpatch.patchA)
text = plt.text(xytext[0], xytext[1], 'Text', ha='center', va='center')
ann_arrowpatch.set_patchA(text)
print(ann_arrowpatch.patchA)

ann_arrowpatch.set_color('b')

arrowpatch = patches.FancyArrowPatch(posA=xytext, posB=(0.5, 0.4), arrowstyle="->", color='r')
ax.add_patch(arrowpatch)
print(arrowpatch.patchA)
arrowpatch.set_patchA(text)
print(arrowpatch.patchA)

Actual outcome

None
Text(0.2, 0.5, 'Text')
None
Text(0.2, 0.5, 'Text')

Expected outcome

Expect that the blue arrow is also clipped by the Text

Additional information

No response

Operating system

OS/X

Matplotlib Version

3.8.0

Matplotlib Backend

both inline and ipympl

Python version

3.11.7

Jupyter version

6.4.5

Installation

conda