Re: Graphics properties implementation

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Jan-2008, Shai Ayal wrote:

| Also, there is one function which seems out of place
| axes::properties::set_defaults which is in graphics.cc
| No other objects have this function, and in it the properties are
| initialized. Since this function is not auto generated, the values
| might not correspond to the default values  in the
| BEGIN_PROPERTIES/END_PROPERTIES block.
| Does anyone remember what this function is? Can we delete it or at
| least take out all the assignments ?

It seems to be used by __go_axes_init__, which is called by newplot.
I don't remember the details of why it is needed and haven't looked to
see if there is another way to make newplot work without this function.

jwe