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Re: keyword inheritance in object graphics [message #91822 is a reply to message #91821]

Wed, 02 September 2015 13:20

dg86
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On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 3:50:16 PM UTC-4, Paulo Penteado wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 7:58:32 AM UTC-7, David Grier wrote:
>> Is this correct behavior, or is it a bug? I've tested this
>> in IDL 8.4.
>
> As I understand it, this is intended behavior, because unlike iTools (which ignore any keywords they do not know, even if not passed with _extra), Function Graphics (not Object Graphics) have keyword checking code in them (the VerifyProperty method). However, you can use the /undocumented keyword, which would disable this checking:
>
> p=plot(/test,/somethingthatdoesnotexist,/undocumented)

Dear Paulo,

Thanks very much for this extremely helpful fix.

I could not be more jazzed that my code is going to rely on
the "undocumented" boolean keyword, which indeed is
undocumented. :)

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		keyword inheritance in object graphics By: dg86 on Wed, 02 September 2015 07:58
		Re: keyword inheritance in object graphics By: penteado on Wed, 02 September 2015 12:50
		Re: keyword inheritance in object graphics By: dg86 on Wed, 02 September 2015 13:20
		Re: keyword inheritance in object graphics By: wlandsman on Wed, 02 September 2015 13:21

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