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bug #44242: Adding a listener to the "children" property has no effect

Submitter:  Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Submitted:  Fri 13 Feb 2015 09:28:15 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  pantxo
Originator Name:  Ben Abbott Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 3.8.2 Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Wed 18 Feb 2015 05:11:22 PM UTC, comment #13: 

I just tested


tic, test ('../octaveclone/libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc'), toc


The execution time is 4.85+/-0.1s with or without the patch, so yes, when there is no listener, the impact is negligible.
I don't see a practical case where listening "children" property may be useful, but as I showed this will cause listener functions to be called several times. Note that this is also true for other properties.

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Wed 18 Feb 2015 04:55:08 PM UTC, comment #12: 

Is there any performance hit to this patch?  Or is it generally zero because adding a listener to the children property is infrequent?

Rik <rik5>
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Wed 18 Feb 2015 03:46:36 PM UTC, comment #11: 

Thank you Ben, I pushed the changeset at http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/99ef3e58214e.

Closing report.

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Tue 17 Feb 2015 07:28:43 PM UTC, comment #10: 

I applied you patch to the stable branch and it works for for me as well.


Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
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Tue 17 Feb 2015 06:34:23 PM UTC, comment #9: 

Hi,

The attached patch fixes the issue for me. Using listeners on axes children property is a bit noisy (e.g. Octave internally deletes recreates text labels when "nextplot" is "replace"):


>> clf ();
>> hax = axes ();
>> fcn = @() disp ("Children modified");
>> addlistener (hax, "children", fcn);
>> plot (rand (3))
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
>> hold all
>> plot (rand (3))
Children modified
Children modified
Children modified
>> h = get (gca (), "children");
>> set (gca (), "children", flipud (h))
Children modified


(file #33111)

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Sun 15 Feb 2015 09:18:37 AM UTC, comment #8: 

@Ben: yes it is possible on the c++ side to call "set" function without executing listeners and notifying toolkit. There are two boolean arguments that let you choose.

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Group Member
Sat 14 Feb 2015 04:45:43 PM UTC, comment #7: 

I'm not exactly trustworthy when it comes to reading c++, but it looks to me as if the listeners are not called when the children are modified from the c++ side, which is what happens when a new object is added to a parent.

To check I tried the modified script below.


1;
function my_handler (h, dummy)
  fprintf ("my_handler called\n");
endfunction
figure (1)
clf ()
hax = axes ();
plot (rand (3))
hold all
fcn = @my_handler;
prop = "children";
addlistener (hax, prop, fcn)
plot (rand (3))
h = get (gca (), prop);
set (gca (), prop, flipud (h))


Running this script does trigger the listener.

Is it possible that listeners are only triggered when the associated property is modified from an m-file, or command line?

Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Sat 14 Feb 2015 03:50:25 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Most properties XXX have their listener run in their corresponding set_XXX method. For some properties, the set_XXX is not generated automatically (marked S or s in the genprop.awk macro). Then the run_listeners method has to be added by hand to their specific set_XXX method. Maybe it has been forgotten for "children" properties ... I can't verify this guess now but if someone wants to investigate I'd watch in this direction.


Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Group Member
Sat 14 Feb 2015 01:54:55 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Until we understand why addlistener doesn't work for "children" I'd hesitate to reduce the severity.




Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Sat 14 Feb 2015 01:19:18 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Can we lower the priority to minor?  Or is there a compelling use case for listeners on the "children" property of graphics objects?

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Sat 14 Feb 2015 01:12:36 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I think the Matlab version of addlistener() is for classdef objects.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/handle.addlistener.html

Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Sat 14 Feb 2015 12:27:13 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Matlab doesn't have a compatible addlistener() function. in R2014a,


fcn = @(h,arg1,arg2) disp ('hello world')

fcn =

    @(h,arg1,arg2)disp('hello world')

axes
addlistener (gca (), 'children', fcn)
The specified event is not supported by the object



Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Fri 13 Feb 2015 11:33:31 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Does this work in Matlab?  I expect so, but it would be nice to check.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Fri 13 Feb 2015 09:28:15 PM UTC, original submission:  

When run, the example below should print "my_hander called" to the command line.


1;
function my_handler (h, dummy)
  fprintf ("my_handler called\n");
endfunction
figure (1)
clf ()
hax = axes ();
plot (rand (3))
hold all
fcn = @my_handler;
addlistener (hax, "children", fcn)
plot (rand (3))


Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-02-18 pantxo StatusPatch Submitted Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2015-02-17 bpabbott StatusNone Patch Submitted
        Assigned toNone pantxo
    2015-02-17 pantxo Attached File- Added fix_children_listener.patch, #33111

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