Re: Rewritten version of bar.m

[Shai Ayal]

On 4/18/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 18-Apr-2007, David Bateman wrote:
> >
> > | converting it to use patches would be trivial. I'm not sure what a
> > | barseries really is..
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I don't understand the group thing yet, but I'd bet
> > that it is eventually what we will have to do for compatibility.

I think the reason group objects were introduced us to make it easier
to change properties for the whole group. i.e. in a barseries you can
change the color of all the bars with one set operation. The groups
just aggregate all the patches together,

> > | That would work as long as you don't mind an additional internal function
> >
> > Once we have private functions, we could make it private, but for now
> > just naming it __bar__ would be OK with me.
> >
> > jwe
> >
>
> Frankly, in the long run I'd rather have someone like Shai responsible
> for maintaining the graphic handles in the octave core, and so I'd
> rather make sure of what he'd prefer to see done for bar/barh rather
> than try and push any code from me..

Well, based on my current preformance, I'm not sure it's a very good
idea, But I'm trying to find time for this.

> D.