Compound_properties - description of the Compound entity properties

Description

The Compound entity is a third of the graphics entities hierarchy. This entity defines interdependencies of the various graphics entities and their global visibility property.

parent: This property contains the handle of the parent. The parent of the text entity should be of the type "Axes" or "Compound" .

children: A vector containing the handles of all graphics objects children of the Compound These graphics objects can be of type "Compound" , "Rectangle" , "Polyline" , "Patch" , "Segs" , "Arc" , "Grayplot" ,..

visible: This field contains the visible property value for the entity . It should be "on" or "off" . By default, value is "on" where graphics entities children of the Compound are drawn according to their visibility property. If "off" all children of Compound are not displayed on the screen.

user_data: This field can be use to store any scilab variable in the figure data structure, and to retreive it.

See Also

glue ,   unglue ,   graphics_entities ,  

Author

Djalel ABDEMOUCHE