Graphic properties not working

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> 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

"should never" is a bit too hard. I don't think I have ever heard a
justified reasoning why doing should be illegal if you just use the
idea and not actual code. Unless the idea is subject to a patent
restriction, but then you infringe the patent regardless of whether
you looked at the code or not.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz