Hi all,
I always thought that you should use get and set to play with object properties.
From time to time I stumble on a strange syntax. I did not keep track of the places where I saw that, but it definitely happened to me quite a few times. One example in this respect can be found in a recent post here on matlab central.
What I'm talking about is something like
as opposed to
Is the first syntax a real thing? I tried that, but only got the expected "Attempt to reference field of non-structure array."
I'm asking because, maybe, I could find such a syntax useful in some cases.
For instance, sometimes I need to adjust the position of an axis. Perhaps reducing its width from the default 0.7750 to 0.75. What I do is
p=get(gca,'position');
p(3) = 0.75;
set(gca,'position',p);
Perhaps, if the above syntax was real, I could go
gca.position(3)=0.75;
Anyway, is there a way to change "in place" just one of the elements of a vector attribute of some object?
