potential problems with Scilab's uicontrol

[StŽéphane Mottelet]

StŽéphane Mottelet a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Since I am currently evaluating if it is worth uising Scilab's
> uicontrols (instead of Tk widgets), I would like to warn the
> Scilab team that these uicontrols have a strange non-standard
> behavior (with respect to any gui system) : once an
> uiconcontrol has been created, i.e. :
>
> f=gcf();
> h=uicontrol(f,'style','frame');
>
> the "position" field of the uicontrol changes each time the figure is
> resized.
> I am sorry to be so crude, but I cannot imagine that people who have
> decided that uicontrols should behave this way have ever programmed
> any serious gui :-)
>
> The problem is very simple : the origin of the screen coordinate system
> (the one for uicontrols) should be on the upper-left corner of the window
> (this is the case in Matlab).
> In Scilab, it is  located in the lower-left corner : this makes all the
> stuff very tricky and/or unusable as an alternative to Tk.
>
> hth
>
> S.
>
>
So, nobody cares in the Scilab team ? Do you plan to move the
origin to the right place or do you consider this as a minor problem ?

S.