Why is it not possible to use HIST and HISTC with the Parameter/Value Syntax in MATLAB 7.9 (R2009b)?

I want to use the HIST and HISTC function in MATLAB 7.9 (R2009b). Unfortunately it is not possible to use the Parameter/Value syntax with these two functions:

 The doc lists ‘style’ options. In the first it is only mention grouped or stacked but the points below mentions histc and hist as well.

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Aswell there is this information:

 Note   When you use either the hist or histc option, you cannot also use parameter/value syntax. These two options create graphic objects that are patches rather than barseries. See Backward-Compatible Versions for details.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

HIST and HISTC cannot be used with the Parameter/Value Syntax in MATLAB.

As a workaround you can adapt the following example to set these properties using the SET and GET accessor methods associated with each Handle Graphics object created:

x = -2.9:0.1:2.9;

y = randn(10000,1);

data = histc(y,x);

h = bar(x,data)

set(h,'FaceColor','red')