# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1294422766 18000
# Node ID fbdb95640852bde308be3e758bc090cbc21ce433
# Parent  2be9e22796d2991b7a2476acbc2f5f851168a263
get: return empty matrix if no values are found

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
 	(text::properties::renderer): New class member of type ft_render.
 	(text::properties::pixels): New class member of type uint8NDArray.
 
+2011-01-07  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* graphics.cc (Fget): Return empty matrix if no values are found.
+	Bug #32067.
+
 2011-01-06  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc (Frandperm): Tag call to floor with gnulib::.
diff --git a/src/graphics.cc b/src/graphics.cc
--- a/src/graphics.cc
+++ b/src/graphics.cc
@@ -6150,15 +6150,21 @@
     {
       octave_idx_type len = vals.numel ();
 
-      if (len > 1)
-        retval = vals;
+      if (len == 0)
+        retval = Matrix ();
       else if (len == 1)
         retval = vals(0);
+      else
+        retval = vals;
     }
 
   return retval;
 }
 
+/*
+%!assert (get (findobj (0, 'Tag', 'nonexistenttag'), 'nonexistentproperty'), [])
+*/
+
 // Return all properties from the graphics handle @var{h}.
 // If @var{h} is a vector, return a cell array including the
 // property values or lists respectively.