Re: h = gca; delete(h); h==gca -> ans=1

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:51 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 22-Oct-2008, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> | On 22-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
> |
> | |     octave:9> gco
> | |     error: `gco' undefined near line 9 column 1
> | |
> | | I have no c++ skill, but I'll go out on a limb and ask if gca() &
> | | gcf() might be cast as special instances of gco()?
> |
> | I don't know whether that makes sense.
>
> I'll also add that I don't know how we would implement gco since it is
> supposed to return the "current object" which the Matlab docs define
> as "the last object clicked on, excluding uimenus".  With the gnuplot
> backend, we don't get any information back about any mouse events that
> happen in the figure window, so I don't see what we would return.  I
> assume that we can eventually make this function work for the
> OpenGL-based backend.
>
> jwe

ok, I got the context of gco completely wrong.

I'm sure my question makes no sense ;-)

Ben