From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Apr  5 13:52:44 2006
Subject: set function undefined
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:52:37 -0400

On  5-Apr-2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| I was recently running some code written for Matlab that uses the set 
| function to set some handle graphics features. While we don't yet have 
| an equivalent in Octave, would it be possible to create an empty 
| placeholder version of set.m sooner so that code that calls it will 
| still run?

For this to work in more than a few very simple cases, I think you
would also have to modify other plotting functions to also return some
kind of value that could serve as a "handle".

If you are interested in pursuing this topic, then please pick up this
discussion again:

  http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/octave-maintainers/2006/147

jwe



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