Legend labels order

[Marco Caliari]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 22-Jul-2009, Marco Caliari wrote:
>
> | I discovered the following problem in 3.2.x. When you have two plots but
> | only one legend label, such as in
> |
> | x=linspace(0,10);,plot(x,x,x,x.^2),legend('linear')
> |
> | the label is attached to the second plot. Similar behavior in the case
> |
> | x=linspace(0,10);,plot(x,x,x,x.^2,x,x.^3),legend('linear','quadratic')
> |
> | or
> |
> | x=linspace(0,10);,plot(x,x),hold on,plot(x,x.^2,'g'),legend('linear')
> |
> | I'm able to fix this problem if I substitute
> |
> | set (kids(k), "keylabel", arg);
> |
> | with
> |
> | set (kids(nkids-nargs+k), "keylabel", arg);
> |
> | in legend.m (two occourences). But, since there is a similar code some
> | rows above regarding hggroup (and I don't know what a hggroup is), I
> | cannot submit a complete patch. I hope somebody else can fix it.
>
> The hggroup object is used for things like stem plots.
>
> I checked in the following change
>
>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/350148cc0774
>
> It seems to work corrctly for me.
>
> Could you please try it with 3.2.x and let us know if you see
> problems?  If it works, then I suppose it would be OK to include with
> a future 3.2.x release.

It works correctly with 3.2.2 for me.

Thanks,

Marco