[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34906] Compatibility difference

[Ben Abbott]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34906>

                 Summary: Compatibility difference 
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: bpabbott
            Submitted on: Sat 26 Nov 2011 12:50:30 PM EST
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Ben Abbott
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

There is a subtle incompatibility in how ML and Octave handle ticklabels.
Below I use xticklabels to demonstrate, but the problem exists for x, y, z
ticklabels.


set (gca, 'xticklabel', [0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1]
xticklabel1 = get (gca, 'xticklabel');
set (gca, 'xticklabel', '0|0.2|0.4|0.6|0.8|1')
xticklabel2 = get (gca, 'xticklabel');
set (gca, 'xticklabel', ['0 '; '0.2'; '0.4'; '0.6'; '0.8'; '1 '])
xticklabel3 = get (gca, 'xticklabel');
set (gca, 'xticklabel', {'0', '0.2', '0.4', '0.6', '0.8', '1'})
xticklabel4 = get (gca, 'xticklabel');
whos xticklabel1 xticklabel2 xticklabel3 xticklabel4


ML uses the 3rd variant for the default xticklabel values., and Octave uses
the 4th (1x6 cellstr)

Each set() statement works in both Octave and ML. However, the resulting
values returned by the get() are different.

Octave returns ...


Variables in the current scope:

   Attr Name             Size                     Bytes  Class
   ==== ====             ====                     =====  ===== 
        xticklabel1      1x6                         48  double
        xticklabel2      1x19                        19  char
        xticklabel3      6x3                         18  char
        xticklabel4      1x6                         14  cell


And ML ...


  Name             Size            Bytes  Class    Attributes

  xticklabel1      6x3                36  char               
  xticklabel2      6x3                36  char               
  xticklabel3      6x3                36  char               
  xticklabel4      6x1               700  cell               


I see three differences.

(1) The default xticklabel values for ML are char, and are cell (cellstr) for
Octave.

(2) ML converts the xticklabel with class double or char with "|" used as a
delimiter to a char array. Octave returns the same class and format as was
passed to set().

(3) ML converts a cellstr column vector (1xN) to a row vector (Nx1).





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