## Copyright (C) 2006-2015 Thomas Treichl <treichl@users.sourceforge.net>
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## Author: Thomas Treichl <treichl@users.sourceforge.net>

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {[@var{ret}] =} odeplot (@var{t}, @var{y}, @var{flag})
##
## Open a new figure window and plot the results from the variable @var{y} of
## type column vector over time while solving.  The types and the values of
## the input parameter @var{t} and the output parameter @var{ret} depend on
## the input value @var{flag} that is of type string.  If @var{flag} is
##
## @table @option
## @item  @qcode{"init"}
## then @var{t} must be a double column vector of length 2 with the first and
## the last time step and nothing is returned from this function,
##
## @item  @qcode{""}
## then @var{t} must be a double scalar specifying the actual time step and
## the return value is false (resp. value 0) for @qcode{"not stop solving"},
##
## @item  @qcode{"done"}
## then @var{t} must be a double scalar specifying the last time step and
## nothing is returned from this function.
## @end table
##
## This function is called by an ode solver function if it was specified in
## an options structure with the @command{odeset}.  This function is an
## internal helper function therefore it should never be necessary that this
## function is called directly by a user.  There is only little error
## detection implemented in this function file to achieve the highest
## performance.
##
## For example, solve an anonymous implementation of the
## @qcode{"Van der Pol"} equation and display the results while solving
##
## @example
## @group
## fvdb = @@(t,y) [y(2); (1 - y(1)^2) * y(2) - y(1)];
##
## opt = odeset ("OutputFcn", @@odeplot, "RelTol", 1e-6);
## sol = ode45 (fvdb, [0 20], [2 0], opt);
## @end group
## @end example
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{odeset, odeget}

function ret = odeplot (t, y, flag, varargin)

  ## No input argument check is done for a higher processing speed
  persistent fig; persistent told;
  persistent yold; persistent counter;

  if (strcmp (flag, "init"))
    ## Nothing to return, t is either the time slot [tstart tstop]
    ## or [t0, t1, ..., tn], y is the inital value vector "init"
    fig = figure; told = t(1,1); yold = y(:,1);
    counter = 1;

  elseif (isempty (flag))
    ## Return something, either false for "not stopping
    ## the integration" or true for "stopping the integration"
    counter = counter + 1; figure (fig);
    told(counter,1) = t(1,1);
    yold(:,counter) = y(:,1);
    plot (told, yold, "-o", "markersize", 1); drawnow;
    ret = false;

  elseif (strcmp (flag, "done"))
    ## Cleanup has to be done, clear the persistent variables because
    ## we don't need them anymore
    clear ("figure", "told", "yold", "counter");

  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! % solve an anonymous implementation of the "Van der Pol" equation
%! % and display the results while solving
%! fvdb = @(t,y) [y(2); (1 - y(1)^2) * y(2) - y(1)];
%! opt = odeset ("OutputFcn", @odeplot, "RelTol", 1e-6);
%! sol = ode45 (fvdb, [0 20], [2 0], opt);