Re: units updater for figures is broken when using fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 12, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Did you know about the method function::properties::set_boundingbox?
>>>> Along with its get_boundingbox counterpart, those 2 methods are
>>>> specifically designed to sync the figure window position between a
>>>> graphics toolkit and octave. So in theory, the graphics toolkit never
>>>> accesses the figure position directly (because of inverted Y-axis and
>>>> 1-based indexing), but does it through get_boundingbox/set_boundinbox
>>>> methods.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry I didn't mention that earlier.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael.
>>> 
>>> I was aware of the set/get boundingbox methods, but initially avoided them 
>>> because of the LL vs UL reference. I changed my mind when I realized that 
>>> adding get_boundingbox to the root_figure would be helpful.
>>> 
>>> If there is no objection, I'll push the change later today. First I want to 
>>> look at the impact on a few other bugs and run the dump demos script.
>> 
>> I don't have an objection, but I find the patch too complicated. The
>> FLTK backend should simply use get_boundingbox and set_boundingbox
>> functions.
>> 
>> Michael.
> 
> Michael,
> 
> To simplify things, the get_boundingbox and set_boudingbox methods for figure 
> objects can be modified to set the origin in the UL corner.
> 
> Do you think this is an appropriate approach?
> 
> Or, might a 3rd boolean input be added get_boundingbox to allow the origin to 
> be selected as LL or UL ?
> 
> Ben

Switching form the help list to the maintainers list. 

Ben