[Scilab-Dev] Problem/missing feature with uicontrols

[Vincent COUVERT]

Hi Stéphane,

These two problems are bugs (an not features) reported in Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5477
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7090

We will fix them as soon as possible.

Vincent

Le 16/06/2010 17:48, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
> Le 16/06/2010 17:07, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There is a missing (easy to implement) feature in uicontrols.
>> When you create e.g. a button as a children of a frame, when
>> making the frame invisible, the button should also dissapear,
>> regardless of its 'visible'  property. Actually, this is not the case
>> (at least in Scilab 5.2.1). This is very annoying, since in Tk
>> the visible state is inherited by childrens. Try the following
>> piece of code :
>>
>> f=uicontrol('style','frame','position',[0 0 100 200]);
>> b=uicontrol(f,'style','pushbutton','position',[0 0 100 
>> 20],'string','push me');
>> set(f,'visible','off');
>>
>> S.
>>
>>
> I am sorry, but I discovered worse things : the "position" property is
> relative to the parent at creation time, but when you move a widget
> by changing its position, then children stay stuck on the root window.
> See the example code :
>
> f=uicontrol('style','frame','position',[100 100 100 100]);
> b=uicontrol(f,'style','pushbutton','position',[0 0 100 
> 20],'string','push me');
> f.position=[0 0 100 100]
>
> Is it a bug or a feature ?
>
>
> S.