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doc: Rewrite docstrings for most plot functions. Emphasize clarity, use common "voice", and increase density of seealso links. * doc/interpreter/plot.txi: Add @findex entries that were in xlim.m * scripts/miscellaneous/getappdata.m scripts/miscellaneous/setappdata.m, scripts/plot/allchild.m, scripts/plot/ancestor.m, scripts/plot/area.m, scripts/plot/axes.m, scripts/plot/axis.m, scripts/plot/bar.m, scripts/plot/barh.m, scripts/plot/box.m, scripts/plot/caxis.m, scripts/plot/cla.m, scripts/plot/clabel.m, scripts/plot/clf.m, scripts/plot/close.m, scripts/plot/closereq.m, scripts/plot/colorbar.m, scripts/plot/comet.m, scripts/plot/comet3.m, scripts/plot/compass.m, scripts/plot/contour.m, scripts/plot/contour3.m, scripts/plot/contourc.m, scripts/plot/contourf.m, scripts/plot/copyobj.m, scripts/plot/cylinder.m, scripts/plot/daspect.m, scripts/plot/diffuse.m, scripts/plot/ellipsoid.m, scripts/plot/errorbar.m, scripts/plot/ezcontour.m, scripts/plot/ezcontourf.m, scripts/plot/ezmesh.m, scripts/plot/ezmeshc.m, scripts/plot/ezplot.m, scripts/plot/ezplot3.m, scripts/plot/ezpolar.m, scripts/plot/ezsurf.m, scripts/plot/ezsurfc.m, scripts/plot/feather.m, scripts/plot/figure.m, scripts/plot/fill.m, scripts/plot/findall.m, scripts/plot/findobj.m, scripts/plot/fplot.m, scripts/plot/gca.m, scripts/plot/gcbf.m, scripts/plot/gcbo.m, scripts/plot/gcf.m, scripts/plot/gco.m, scripts/plot/ginput.m, scripts/plot/graphics_toolkit.m, scripts/plot/grid.m, scripts/plot/gtext.m, scripts/plot/guidata.m, scripts/plot/guihandles.m, scripts/plot/hdl2struct.m, scripts/plot/hggroup.m, scripts/plot/hidden.m, scripts/plot/hist.m, scripts/plot/hold.m, scripts/plot/ishghandle.m, scripts/plot/ishold.m, scripts/plot/isocolors.m, scripts/plot/isprop.m, scripts/plot/legend.m, scripts/plot/line.m, scripts/plot/linkprop.m, scripts/plot/loglog.m, scripts/plot/loglogerr.m, scripts/plot/mesh.m, scripts/plot/meshc.m, scripts/plot/meshgrid.m, scripts/plot/meshz.m, scripts/plot/newplot.m, scripts/plot/orient.m, scripts/plot/pareto.m, scripts/plot/patch.m, scripts/plot/pcolor.m, scripts/plot/peaks.m, scripts/plot/pie.m, scripts/plot/pie3.m, scripts/plot/plot.m, scripts/plot/plot3.m, scripts/plot/plotmatrix.m, scripts/plot/plotyy.m, scripts/plot/polar.m, scripts/plot/print.m, scripts/plot/quiver.m, scripts/plot/quiver3.m, scripts/plot/rectangle.m, scripts/plot/refresh.m, scripts/plot/refreshdata.m, scripts/plot/ribbon.m, scripts/plot/rose.m, scripts/plot/saveas.m, scripts/plot/scatter.m, scripts/plot/scatter3.m, scripts/plot/semilogx.m, scripts/plot/semilogxerr.m, scripts/plot/semilogy.m, scripts/plot/semilogyerr.m, scripts/plot/shading.m, scripts/plot/shg.m, scripts/plot/shrinkfaces.m, scripts/plot/slice.m, scripts/plot/specular.m, scripts/plot/sphere.m, scripts/plot/stairs.m, scripts/plot/stem.m, scripts/plot/stem3.m, scripts/plot/struct2hdl.m, scripts/plot/subplot.m, scripts/plot/surf.m, scripts/plot/surface.m, scripts/plot/surfc.m, scripts/plot/surfl.m, scripts/plot/tetramesh.m, scripts/plot/text.m, scripts/plot/title.m, scripts/plot/trimesh.m, scripts/plot/triplot.m, scripts/plot/trisurf.m, scripts/plot/view.m, scripts/plot/waitbar.m, scripts/plot/waitforbuttonpress.m, scripts/plot/waterfall.m, scripts/plot/whitebg.m, scripts/plot/xlabel.m, scripts/plot/xlim.m, scripts/plot/ylabel.m, scripts/plot/ylim.m, scripts/plot/zlabel.m, scripts/plot/zlim.m: Rewrite docstrings for most plot functions. Emphasize clarity, use common "voice", and increase density of seealso links.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:30 -0700
parents dbd64c9a16da
children 088d014a7fe2
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## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Michael Goffioul
##
## 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{name} =} graphics_toolkit ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{name} =} graphics_toolkit (@var{hlist})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} graphics_toolkit (@var{name})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} graphics_toolkit (@var{hlist}, @var{name})
## Query or set the default graphics toolkit which is assigned to new
## figures.
## 
## With no inputs, return the current default graphics toolkit.  If the input
## is a list of figure graphic handles, @var{hlist}, then return the name
## of the graphics toolkit in use for each figure.
## 
## When called with a single input @var{name} set the default graphics toolkit
## to @var{name}.  If the toolkit is not already loaded, it is initialized by
## calling the function @code{__init_@var{name}__}.  If the first input
## is a list of figure handles, @var{hlist}, then the graphics toolkit is set
## to @var{name} for these figures only.
## 
## @seealso{available_graphics_toolkits}
## @end deftypefn

function retval = graphics_toolkit (name, hlist = [])

  if (nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargout > 0 || nargin == 0)
    retval = get (0, "defaultfigure__graphics_toolkit__");
  endif

  if (nargin == 0)
    return;
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    if (all (isfigure (name)))
      hlist = name;
      retval = get (hlist, "__graphics_toolkit__");
      return
    elseif (! ischar (name))
      error ("graphics_toolkit: invalid graphics toolkit NAME");
    endif
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    ## Swap input arguments
    [hlist, name] = deal (name, hlist);
    if (! all (isfigure (hlist)))
      error ("graphics_toolkit: invalid figure handle list HLIST");
    elseif (! ischar (name))
      error ("graphics_toolkit: invalid graphics toolkit NAME");
    endif
  endif

  if (! any (strcmp (loaded_graphics_toolkits (), name)))
    feval (["__init_", name, "__"]);
    if (! any (strcmp (loaded_graphics_toolkits (), name)))
      error ("graphics_toolkit: %s toolkit was not correctly loaded", name);
    endif
  endif

  if (isempty (hlist))
    set (0, "defaultfigure__graphics_toolkit__", name);
  else
    set (hlist, "__graphics_toolkit__", name);
  endif

endfunction


%!testif HAVE_FLTK
%! unwind_protect
%!   hf = figure ("visible", "off");
%!   toolkit = graphics_toolkit ();
%!   assert (get (0, "defaultfigure__graphics_toolkit__"), toolkit);
%!   graphics_toolkit (hf, "fltk");
%!   assert (graphics_toolkit (hf), "fltk");
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   close (hf);
%! end_unwind_protect

%!testif HAVE_FLTK
%! old_toolkit = graphics_toolkit ();
%! switch (old_toolkit)
%!   case {"gnuplot"}
%!     new_toolkit = "fltk";
%!   otherwise
%!     new_toolkit = "gnuplot";
%! endswitch
%! assert (graphics_toolkit (new_toolkit), old_toolkit);
%! assert (graphics_toolkit (old_toolkit), new_toolkit);