[changeset] - findobj([],...) produces an error

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Wed Oct 22 13:16:50 CDT 2008


On Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at 01:56PM, "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
>On 22-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| octave:76> findobj([],'type','axes')
>| error: invalid matrix index = 1
>| 
>| Matlab returns [](0x1).
>| 
>| Changeset attached.
>
>I applied it.
>
>Should we be looking at all children, or just those that don't have 
>the handlevisibility property set to "off"?
>
>jwe
>

There may be a way to enable findobj to see those objects with hidden handles, but I've always been frustrated by not being able to "find" them when using Matlab. So my understanding is that findobj examines only the visible ones.

Ben


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