Re: Graphics properties implementation

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Jan-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| Related to hidden properties, I think that properties like
| __plot_stream__ and so on should be hidden. Normally, hidden
| properties should not be listed by the "get(void)" method; they
| should only be accessible on explicit requests by the
| "get(caseless_str)" method. However, doing this will make
| some m-code not functional: for instance, "drawnow" uses
| "get(fig_handle)" to get a structure containing all properties;
| if hidden properties are not part of the structure, drawnow
| will fail. What do you think?

Instead of

  get (void)

how about defining the function as

  get (bool all = false)

?  If ALL is TRUE, it would return all properties, including those
that are hidden.  Then, for the gnuplot backend, we could define an
internal __get__ function that passes TRUE to the C++ get function.

jwe