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annotate scripts/plot/ancestor.m @ 9051:1bf0ce0930be
Grammar check TexInfo in all .m files
Cleanup documentation sources to follow a few consistent rules.
Spellcheck was NOT done. (but will be in another changeset)
author | Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com> |
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date | Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:31:03 -0700 |
parents | dbd0c77e575e |
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8920 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Michael Goffioul |
6851 | 2 ## |
7016 | 3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
6851 | 4 ## |
7016 | 5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
8 ## your option) any later version. | |
9 ## | |
10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
13 ## General Public License for more details. | |
6851 | 14 ## |
15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
7016 | 16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
6851 | 18 |
19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{parent} =} ancestor (@var{h}, @var{type}) | |
21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{parent} =} ancestor (@var{h}, @var{type}, 'toplevel') | |
22 ## Return the first ancestor of handle object @var{h} whose type matches | |
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Cleanup documentation file plot.texi
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23 ## @var{type}, where @var{type} is a character string. If @var{type} is a |
6851 | 24 ## cell array of strings, return the first parent whose type matches |
25 ## any of the given type strings. | |
26 ## | |
27 ## If the handle object @var{h} is of type @var{type}, return @var{h}. | |
28 ## | |
29 ## If @code{"toplevel"} is given as a 3rd argument, return the highest | |
30 ## parent in the object hierarchy that matches the condition, instead | |
31 ## of the first (nearest) one. | |
32 ## @seealso{get, set} | |
33 ## @end deftypefn | |
34 | |
35 function p = ancestor (h, type, toplevel) | |
36 | |
37 if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3) | |
38 p = []; | |
39 if (ischar (type)) | |
40 type = { type }; | |
41 endif | |
42 if (iscellstr (type)) | |
43 look_first = true; | |
44 if (nargin == 3) | |
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use case-insensitive comparison for graphics properties; misc style fixes
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45 if (ischar (toplevel) && strcmpi (toplevel, "toplevel")) |
6851 | 46 look_first = false; |
47 else | |
48 error ("ancestor: third argument must be \"toplevel\""); | |
49 endif | |
50 endif | |
51 while (true) | |
52 if (isempty (h) || ! ishandle (h)) | |
53 break; | |
54 endif | |
55 if (any (strcmpi (get (h, "type"), type))) | |
56 p = h; | |
57 if (look_first) | |
58 break; | |
59 endif | |
60 endif | |
61 h = get (h, "Parent"); | |
62 endwhile | |
63 else | |
64 error ("ancestor: second argument must be a string or cell array of strings"); | |
65 endif | |
66 else | |
67 print_usage (); | |
68 endif | |
69 | |
70 endfunction |