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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
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Ben Abbott
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2 ##
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3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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6 ## (at your option) any later version.
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7 ##
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8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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9 ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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11 ## GNU General Public License for more details.
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12 ##
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13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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14 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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15 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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17 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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18 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{value} =} getappdata (@var{h}, @var{name})
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19 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{appdata} =} getappdata (@var{h})
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20 ##
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21 ## Return the @var{value} for named application data for the object(s) with
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22 ## handle(s) @var{h}.
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23 ##
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24 ## @code{getappdata(@var{h})} returns a structure, @var{appdata}, whose fields
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25 ## correspond to the appdata properties.
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26 ##
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27 ## @seealso{setappdata, guidata, get, set, getpref, setpref}
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28 ## @end deftypefn
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30 ## Author: Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com>
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31 ## Created: 2010-07-15
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33 function val = getappdata (h, name)
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35 if (all (ishandle (h)) && nargin == 2 && ischar (name))
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36 ## FIXME - Is there a better way to handle non-existent appdata
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37 ## and missing fields?
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38 val = cell (numel (h), 1);
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39 appdata = struct ();
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40 for nh = 1:numel (h)
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41 try
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42 appdata = get (h(nh), "__appdata__");
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43 end_try_catch
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44 if (! isfield (appdata, name))
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45 appdata.(name) = [];
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46 endif
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47 val(nh) = {appdata.(name)};
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48 endfor
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50 val = val{1};
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51 endif
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52 elseif (ishandle (h) && numel (h) == 1 && nargin == 1)
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54 val = get (h, "__appdata__");
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55 catch
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56 val = struct ();
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57 end_try_catch
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58 else
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59 error ("getappdata: invalid input");
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60 endif
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62 endfunction
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