Re: wxt (was: Re: improved __contourc__.cc + filled contours)

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, October 15, 2007, at 12:45PM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 15-Oct-2007, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| How about
>| 
>| set (0, 'terminal', 'wxt') ?
>
>At this point, I'd prefer to avoid adding properties that are not
>compatible with Matlab.  A terminal property with gnuplot-specific
>names is also asking for trouble when/if we switch to some other
>plotting backend.  Yes, we already have this problem with the print
>function handling lots of output formats that may be difficult to
>obtain with other graphics backends, but I'd at least like to limit
>the damage.
>
>jwe

Good points.

Is there any plan to provide the setappdata and getappdata functions from 
Matlab?

They behave similarly to "get" and "set", but are intended for specific 
applications ... user defined apps I suppose.   Perhaps such a functionality 
would allow individuals to come up with backend specific functionality without 
burdening other backends or breaking matlab compatibility.

>From Matlab 7.3; "help setappdata"

 SETAPPDATA Set application-defined data.
   SETAPPDATA(H, NAME, VALUE) sets application-defined data for
   the object with handle H.  The application-defined data,
   which is created if it does not already exist, is
   assigned a NAME and a VALUE.  VALUE may be anything.
 
   See also getappdata, rmappdata, isappdata.