Re: [changeset] - improve clf() compatibility

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| 
| On Oct 10, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| 
| > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
| >>> What's missing here is probably "reset" function.
| >>>
| >>> Michael.
| >>
| >>
| >> Agreed.
| >>
| >> If I had a method available to inquire as to what the defaults  
| >> were, that
| >> would be easy enough to impement. Do you imply that I am already  
| >> able to
| >> determine the default property values?
| >
| > get(0, 'defaultfigurecolor') for instance
| >
| > However, implementing this in m-code will probably be rather  
| > inefficient.
| > I guess a C++ implementation (maybe with some autogenerated code)
| > would be better suited.
| >
| > Michael.
| 
| ok, that does work in Matlab, but not in Octave's 3.1.51+ branch. Does  
| this functionality exist somewhere else?

However, setting default properties does work.  For example

  figure (1);
  get (1, "color")
    ==> [1, 1, 1]

  close ("all");

  set (0, "defaultfigurecolor", [0.1, 0.2, 0.3]);
  figure (1);
  get (1, "color")
    ==> [0.1, 0.2, 0.3]


I think getting defaults is just not completely implemented yet.  Some
things do work.  For example, I see

  set (0, "defaultfigurecolor", [0.1, 0.2, 0.3]);
  get (0, "default")
  ans =
  {
    defaultfigurecolor =

       0.20000   0.20000   0.20000

  }

  get (0, "defaultfigurecolor")
  ans =

     0.20000   0.20000   0.20000


but as you noted, this fails when the default has not been explicitly
set.  I guess that's just something that still needs to be done.

jwe