Re: units updater for figures is broken when using fltk

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Did you know about the method function::properties::set_boundingbox?
>> Along with its get_boundingbox counterpart, those 2 methods are
>> specifically designed to sync the figure window position between a
>> graphics toolkit and octave. So in theory, the graphics toolkit never
>> accesses the figure position directly (because of inverted Y-axis and
>> 1-based indexing), but does it through get_boundingbox/set_boundinbox
>> methods.
>>
>> Sorry I didn't mention that earlier.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> I was aware of the set/get boundingbox methods, but initially avoided them 
> because of the LL vs UL reference. I changed my mind when I realized that 
> adding get_boundingbox to the root_figure would be helpful.
>
> If there is no objection, I'll push the change later today. First I want to 
> look at the impact on a few other bugs and run the dump demos script.

I don't have an objection, but I find the patch too complicated. The
FLTK backend should simply use get_boundingbox and set_boundingbox
functions.

Michael.