On 16-Feb-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
| I noticed that many default values are properly reported
|
| octave:2> get (0, "defaultaxesposition")
| ans = 0.13000 0.11000 0.77500 0.81500
|
| octave:3> get (0, "defaultaxesticklength")
| ans = 0.010000 0.025000
|
| But some others are not
|
| octave:4> get (0, "defaultaxesunits")
| ans = 0
|
| octave:5> get (0, "defaultaxesfontunits")
| ans = 0
|
| octave:6> get (0, "defaulttextfontunits")
| ans = 0
|
| octave:7> get (0, "defaultaxestickdir")
| ans = 0
|
| From what I can tell all radio properties behave this way. I
| experimented with placing ...
|
| units = "normalized";
|
| ... in axes::properties::set_defaults, but the behavior did not
| change. Nor does it work for the other radio properties whose
defaults
| are already specified there.
|
| Is this a bug, or the result of a work in progress that has not yet
| been completed?
|
| In any event, is there presently a way to determine the default
value
| for a radio property from an m-file?
I checked in the following change.
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8cb2a144f321
Most of it is whitespace changes. The real fix is to use
dval = "\"" substr (dval, 1, l-1) "\"";
instead of
dval = "\"" + substr (dval, 1, l-1) + "\"";
to concatenate character strings in AWK.
Thanks,