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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>

  <TITLE>Compound_properties</TITLE>

  <TYPE>Scilab Data type</TYPE>

  <DATE>2002</DATE>

  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="Compound_properties">description of the Compound
  entity properties</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>

  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>The Compound entity is a third of the graphics entities hierarchy. This
    entity defines interdependencies of the various graphics entities and
    their global visibility property.</P>

    <DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label="parent: ">
        <SP>This property contains the handle of the parent. The parent of the
        text entity should be of the type <VERB>"Axes"</VERB> or
        <VERB>"Compound"</VERB>.</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>

      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label="children: ">
        <SP>A vector containing the handles of all graphics objects children
        of the Compound These graphics objects can be of type
        <VERB>"Compound"</VERB>, <VERB>"Rectangle"</VERB>,
        <VERB>"Polyline"</VERB>, <VERB>"Patch"</VERB>, <VERB>"Segs"</VERB>,
        <VERB>"Arc"</VERB>, <VERB>"Grayplot"</VERB>,..</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>

      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label="visible: ">
        <SP>This field contains the <VERB>visible</VERB> property value for
        the entity . It should be <VERB>"on" </VERB> or <VERB>"off"</VERB>. By
        default, value is <VERB>"on" </VERB> where graphics entities children
        of the Compound are drawn according to their visibility property. If
        <VERB>"off"</VERB> all children of Compound are not displayed on the
        screen.</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>

      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label="user_data: ">
        <SP>This field can be use to store any scilab variable in the figure
        data structure, and to retreive it.</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
    </DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
  </DESCRIPTION>

  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>glue</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>

    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>unglue</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>

    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>graphics_entities</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>

  <AUTHOR>Djalel ABDEMOUCHE</AUTHOR>
</MAN>