Difference between [ handles.comp1 ]=axes and [ comp1=axes ]

What is the difference between defining an axis using {handles.comp1=axes} and {comp1= axes}

I'm guessing in the first case the axes has its handle stored in the handles structure and in the second it is not stored into it?

Answer 1

Yes, that is the only difference. And it would be perfectly valid to use

comp1 = axes;
handles.comp1 = comp1;

Thank you very much :)

By the way, the code that you wrote is supposed to enable me to call the handle without typing [handle.] before it? Because its not doing that. What does that piece of code do?

Be careful on "handles." compared to "handle."

The code I gave shows that an axes handle can be copied around like any other numeric value. You can store it in any numeric form that is convenient to you, in any kind of double precision variable.