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doc: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line. Reviewed plot/ and gui/ in scripts directory. * scripts/gui/errordlg.m, scripts/gui/helpdlg.m, scripts/gui/inputdlg.m, scripts/gui/listdlg.m, scripts/gui/msgbox.m, scripts/gui/private/__get_funcname__.m, scripts/gui/private/__uiobject_split_args__.m, scripts/gui/questdlg.m, scripts/gui/uigetdir.m, scripts/gui/uigetfile.m, scripts/gui/uiwait.m, scripts/gui/waitbar.m, scripts/gui/warndlg.m, scripts/plot/appearance/annotation.m, scripts/plot/appearance/axis.m, scripts/plot/appearance/box.m, scripts/plot/appearance/caxis.m, scripts/plot/appearance/datetick.m, scripts/plot/appearance/hidden.m, scripts/plot/appearance/legend.m, scripts/plot/appearance/xlim.m, scripts/plot/appearance/ylim.m, scripts/plot/appearance/zlim.m, scripts/plot/draw/area.m, scripts/plot/draw/comet.m, scripts/plot/draw/comet3.m, scripts/plot/draw/contour.m, scripts/plot/draw/contourf.m, scripts/plot/draw/isocolors.m, scripts/plot/draw/isonormals.m, scripts/plot/draw/isosurface.m, scripts/plot/draw/plotmatrix.m, scripts/plot/draw/quiver.m, scripts/plot/draw/quiver3.m, scripts/plot/draw/ribbon.m, scripts/plot/draw/semilogxerr.m, scripts/plot/draw/semilogyerr.m, scripts/plot/draw/sphere.m, scripts/plot/draw/surfl.m, scripts/plot/draw/tetramesh.m, scripts/plot/util/allchild.m, scripts/plot/util/ancestor.m, scripts/plot/util/axes.m, scripts/plot/util/colstyle.m, scripts/plot/util/frame2im.m, scripts/plot/util/gnuplot_binary.in, scripts/plot/util/hgsave.m, scripts/plot/util/im2frame.m, scripts/plot/util/isaxes.m, scripts/plot/util/isfigure.m, scripts/plot/util/linkaxes.m, scripts/plot/util/ndgrid.m, scripts/plot/util/pan.m, scripts/plot/util/print.m, scripts/plot/util/printd.m, scripts/plot/util/private/__add_default_menu__.m, scripts/plot/util/rotate.m, scripts/plot/util/rotate3d.m, scripts/plot/util/saveas.m, scripts/plot/util/struct2hdl.m, scripts/plot/util/subplot.m, scripts/plot/util/zoom.m: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Sat, 09 May 2015 22:50:09 -0700
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## Copyright (C) 2010, 2013 Martin Hepperle
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{h} =} helpdlg (@var{msg})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} helpdlg (@var{msg}, @var{title})
## Display @var{msg} in a help dialog box.
##
## The message may have multiple lines separated by newline characters
## ("\n"), or it may be a cellstr array with one element for each
## line.
##
## The optional input @var{title} (character string) can be used to
## set the dialog caption.  The default title is @qcode{"Help Dialog"}.
##
## The return value is always 1.
## @seealso{errordlg, inputdlg, listdlg, msgbox, questdlg, warndlg}
## @end deftypefn

function retval = helpdlg (msg, title = "Help Dialog")

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

  retval = message_dialog ("helpdlg", msg, title, "help");

endfunction


%!demo
%! disp ('- test helpdlg with a help message only.');
%! helpdlg ("Below, you should see 3 lines:\nline #1\nline #2, and\nline #3.");

%!demo
%! disp ('- test helpdlg with help message and caption.');
%! helpdlg ('You should see a single line.','A help dialog');