[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60861] set command sometimes doesn't allow mixed prop/value pairs and cell arrays

[Rik]

Update of bug #60861 (project octave):

                Category:                     GUI => Octave Function        
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
              Item Group:                    None => Matlab Compatibility   
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   6.1.0 => dev                    
        Operating System:       Microsoft Windows => Any                    
                 Summary: set command sometimes doesn't allow multiple items.
=> set command sometimes doesn't allow mixed prop/value pairs and cell arrays

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I believe the issue is that Octave expects either 1) property/value pairs, 2)
cell array of properties, cell array of values, or 3) a struct array.  Try
`help set`


     There are three ways to give the property names and values:

        * as a comma separated list of PROPERTY, VALUE pairs

          Here, each PROPERTY is a string containing the property name,
          each VALUE is a value of the appropriate type for the
          property.

        * as a cell array of strings PROPERTIES containing property
          names and a cell array VALUES containing property values.

          In this case, the number of columns of VALUES must match the
          number of elements in PROPERTIES.  The first column of VALUES
          contains values for the first entry in PROPERTIES, etc.  The
          number of rows of VALUES must be 1 or match the number of
          elements of H.  In the first case, each handle in H will be
          assigned the same values.  In the latter case, the first
          handle in H will be assigned the values from the first row of
          VALUES and so on.

        * as a structure array PV

          Here, the field names of PV represent the property names, and
          the field values give the property values.  In contrast to the
          previous case, all elements of PV will be set in all handles
          in H independent of the dimensions of PV.


The calling syntax you are using, and which Matlab apparently accepts, is a
mix of prop/value pairs and cell arrays.  As you determined, a workaround is
to simply separate the individual calls.

You can also join calls if you want into cell arrays.


set (a, {'units', 'position', 'string'}, [repmat({'normalized'}, 3,1),
locations, txt])



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