Re: [OctDev] Java/OpenGL-based graphics package for octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Apr-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| I don't think so, because the properties of the hggroup somehow translate
| automatically into properties of its children. For instance, setting "color" 
of
| a stemseries sets "color" of the stem and marker lines (2 children of the
| stemseries); setting "marker" propagates only to the marker line; setting
| "xdata" propagates to the stem line (with NaN insertion) and to the marker
| line (as-is).
| In the end, at rendering-time, the children objects are already correctly
| configured such that you don't actually care of the real type of the hggroup.
| Rendering the stemseries reduces to rendering the stem and marker lines;
| no need to know the "basevalue".

OK, I think I'm (slowly) beginning to catch on.  All of the properties
of the group objects are somehow reflected in the children, so when
any one of the group properies are set, something extra must happen to
push that change to one or more of the children?

jwe