## Copyright (C) 2008-2011 David Bateman
##
## 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} {} gtext (@var{s})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@{@var{s1}; @var{s2}; @dots{}@})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val})
## Place text on the current figure using the mouse.  The text is defined
## by the string @var{s}.  If @var{s} is a cell array, each element of the cell
## array is written to a separate line.  Additional arguments are passed to
## the underlying text object as properties.
## @seealso{ginput, text}
## @end deftypefn

function gtext (s, varargin)

  if (nargin > 0)
    if (iscellstr (s))
      if (isempty (s))
        s = "";
      else
        s = sprintf ("%s\n", s{:});
      endif
    endif
    if (ischar (s))
      if (! isempty (s))
        [x, y] = ginput (1);
        text (x, y, s, varargin{:});
      endif
    else
      error ("gtext: expecting a string or cell array of strings");
    endif 
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

endfunction