[Scilab-users] Dot operator on a handle

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

Le 29/09/2013 11:37, Stefan Du Rietz a écrit :
> Error setting a property of a graphics entity with the dot operator on 
> a handle from a calling function
It may be related to variable reachability. When "a" is not passed to 
testhandle2(),
this function must get it from the calling environnement. When in 
testhandle()
a = f.children; is set, "a" is a local variable = pointer to the handle 
that is global.

If one inserts the line
a = a
at the very beginning of testhandle2() (before the first disp),
the difference of behavior disappears and type==9 is returned in both cases.

Anyway, this difference is quite strange. In testhandle2(), the first
disp calling type(a) should force the local definition of  "a" if "a" is
not passed among input arguments, and adding a=a should make no difference.

The fact that in some cases a struct is returned could be a piece of work
aiming to answer to http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7407

Or it could be a side effect of the fix of 
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7110

Or.. ?

Regards
Samuel