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Implement new usejava function for Matlab compatability. * usejava.m: New function for Matlab compatability. * NEWS: Announce new function availability in 3.6.0
author Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
date Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:58:38 -0700
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## Copyright (C) 2011 Rik Wehbring
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} usejava (@var{feature})
## Return true if the specific Sun Java element @var{feature} is available.
##
## Possible features are:
##
## @table @asis
## @item "awt"
## Abstract Window Toolkit for GUIs.
##
## @item "desktop"
## Interactive desktop is running.
##
## @item "jvm"
## Java Virtual Machine.
##
## @item "swing"
## Swing components for lightweight GUIs.
## @end table
##
## This function is provided for compatability with @sc{matlab} scripts which
## may alter their behavior based on the availability of Java.  Octave does
## not implement an interface to Java and this function always returns
## @code{false}.
## @end deftypefn

function retval = usejava (feature)

  if (nargin != 1 || ! ischar (feature))
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (! any (strcmp (feature, {"awt", "desktop", "jvm", "swing"})))
    error ("usejava: unrecognized feature '%s'", feature);
  endif

  retval = false;

endfunction


%!assert (usejava ("awt"), false)

%% Test input validation
%!error usejava ()
%!error usejava (1, 2)
%!error usejava (1)
%!error <unrecognized feature> usejava ("abc")