[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60980] "Position" key in uigetfile appears to have no effect

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #60980 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   6.1.0 => dev                    
        Operating System:       Microsoft Windows => Any                    

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Follow-up Comment #2:

I can confirm on both Windows and Ubuntu.

It looks like this is an extension to the Matlab function that isn't
completely implemented. Their documentation doesn't mention a "position"
property:
https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uigetfile.html


The position is assigned to a variable here. But it is never used for the Qt
graphics toolkit:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/53de043ea532/libinterp/corefcn/event-manager.cc#l311

Looking back in the history of the repository, it looks like this was never
implemented.

The same goes for corresponding implementation with the FLTK graphics
toolkit:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/53de043ea532/libinterp/dldfcn/__fltk_uigetfile__.cc#l78

Maybe, we should just remove that property from the documentation and simplify
the code by removing the position property entirely.



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