Graphic properties not working

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Mar-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| Mathworks appears to be doing something special. How does Matlab  
| handle a situation like below?
| 
| 	set (hg, "SomeProperty", SomeValue)
| 
| If the property "SomeProperty" does not exst for the hggroup with  
| handle hg, does Matlab do something like ...
| 
| 	set (findobj (hg, "-property", "SomeProperty"), "SomeProperty",  
| SomeValue)
| 
|   ... or is the current example unique?

I don't know how this this functionality is implemented in Matlab.
This is just a friendly reminder that you should never examine any
Matlab m-file sources to determine how it works and then implement
something for Octave based on that.

jwe