[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59116] Return value for the String property of uicontrol

[Rik]

Update of bug #59116 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Marking as confirmed, and changing the severity to Minor.

The first two instances, where Octave returns a string but Matlab returns a
char matrix, are the ones to focus on.

The code to start looking through is in graphics.in.h and the class definition
for string_array_property.  The class provides an overload for the
string_value() function that creates the pipe-delimited list.


  std::string string_value (void) const
  {
    std::string s;

    for (octave_idx_type i = 0; i < str.numel (); i++)
      {
        s += str[i];
        if (i != str.numel () - 1)
          s += separator;
      }

    return s;
  }


There would probably need to be a new conversion function with an output of
char matrix rather than std::string.  This conversion function would
essentially just call Fchar() on the list of strings.  And then there would be
changing the get function for "string" so that it returned a char matrix so it
would pick up the new overload.


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