## Copyright (C) 2013 Vytautas Jančauskas
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{value} =} get (@var{player}, @var{name})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{values} =} get (@var{player})
## Return the @var{value} of the property identified by @var{name}.
## If @var{name} is a cell array return the values of the properties
## identified by the elements of the cell array.  Given only the
## player object, return a scalar structure with values of all
## properties of @var{player}.  The field names of the structure
## correspond to property names.
## @end deftypefn

function retval = get (varargin)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  properties = __get_properties__ (varargin{1});

  if (nargin == 1)
    retval = properties;
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    pnames = varargin{2};
    if (ischar (pnames))
      retval = getfield (properties, pnames);
    elseif (iscellstr (pnames))
      retval = cell (size (pnames));
      for i = 1:numel (pnames)
        retval{i} = getfield (properties, pnames{i});
      endfor
    else
      error ("@audioplayer/get: invalid name argument");
    endif
  endif

endfunction