gco broken in 2014b?

In older versions, this displays the last object clicked in the command window whenever a key is pressed in the figure:

figure('keypressfcn','gco') axes

In 2014b the gco always just returns "0x0 empty GraphicsPlaceholder array"

Is there any way to restore the old behavior in 2014b? I need a keypressfcn to react differently depending on what the current object is.

(I'm using gco as a string to simplify the example. Calling gco from an actual function also does not work)