Defining font size in legend does not work

i define the font size of the legend in this way,it doesn't work

size=15;

legend1=legend(',,,',',,,','FontSize',size))

but it works in this way

size=15;

legend1=legend(',,,',',,,')

set(legend1,'FontSize',size)

why?

Answer 1

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

>> why
The bald and not excessively bald and not excessively smart hamster obeyed a terrified and not excessively terrified hamster.

I hoped that I would get one of the old outputs from why, one of the type: "Because Steve said so"...

If you read the documentation it seems as if legend is only expecting additional settings for location and orientation

and nothing else. If you store the first output from legend you get a handle to the legend axes and for that you have access to all its properties by way of set/get.

HTH