Re: Final call for bug reports

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 10/16/2013 02:52 PM, Rik wrote:
> On 10/16/2013 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > 7) In the list of children associated with a figure, I'm trying to
> > determine which is an axes and which is a legend.  Try the following
> > commands:
> >
> > figure(10)
> > x = [1:50]
> > h = plot(x)
> > legend(h, 'this is x');
> > kids = get(gcf, 'Children')
> > get(kids(1))
> > [snip]
> >       tag = legend
> >       type = axes
> > [snip]
> > get(kids(2))
> > [snip]
> >       tag =
> >       type = axes
> > [snip]
> >
> > It's as though the "tag" for the legend actually should be the "type"
> > variable value.  There shouldn't be a tag there unless the user
> > specifies one.  This may have been introduced somewhere around the
> > following changeset:
> > http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/d99785217634
> Blame The MathWorks.  Legends are implemented as an additional axes on the
> figure with the tag set to "legend".  This is the compatible behavior.

That's really strange.  There is a completely different set of 
parameters/elements for a legend object and an axes object, yet they are 
both considered "axes" type?

Dan