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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) 2007-2012 Michael Goffioul
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{parent} =} ancestor (@var{h}, @var{type})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{parent} =} ancestor (@var{h}, @var{type}, "toplevel")
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22 ## Return the first ancestor of handle object @var{h} whose type matches
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23 ## @var{type}, where @var{type} is a character string. If @var{type} is a
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24 ## cell array of strings, return the first parent whose type matches
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25 ## any of the given type strings.
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26 ##
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27 ## If the handle object @var{h} itself is of type @var{type}, return @var{h}.
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28 ##
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29 ## If @code{"toplevel"} is given as a third argument, return the highest
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30 ## parent in the object hierarchy that matches the condition, instead
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31 ## of the first (nearest) one.
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32 ## @seealso{findobj, findall, allchild}
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33 ## @end deftypefn
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35 function p = ancestor (h, type, toplevel)
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37 if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
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38 print_usage ();
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39 endif
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41 if (ischar (type))
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42 type = { type };
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43 elseif (! iscellstr (type))
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44 error ("ancestor: TYPE must be a string or cell array of strings");
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45 endif
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47 find_first = true;
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48 if (nargin == 3)
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49 if (ischar (toplevel) && strcmpi (toplevel, "toplevel"))
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50 find_first = false;
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51 else
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52 error ('ancestor: third argument must be "toplevel"');
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53 endif
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54 endif
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56 if (isempty (h))
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57 p = [];
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58 else
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59 p = cell (numel (h), 1);
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60 h = num2cell (h);
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61 for nh = 1:numel (h)
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62 while (true)
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63 if (isempty (h{nh}) || ! ishandle (h{nh}))
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64 break;
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65 endif
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66 if (any (strcmpi (get (h{nh}, "type"), type)))
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67 p{nh} = h{nh};
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68 if (find_first)
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70 endif
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71 endif
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72 h{nh} = get (h{nh}, "parent");
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73 endwhile
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74 endfor
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75 if (nh == 1)
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76 p = p{1};
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77 endif
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78 endif
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80 endfunction
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83 %!test
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84 %! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
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85 %! unwind_protect
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86 %! hl = line;
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87 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "axes"), gca);
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88 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "figure"), hf);
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89 %! unwind_protect_cleanup
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90 %! close (hf);
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91 %! end_unwind_protect
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93 %!test
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94 %! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
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95 %! unwind_protect
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96 %! hg1 = hggroup ("parent", gca);
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97 %! hg2 = hggroup ("parent", hg1);
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98 %! hl = line ("parent", hg2);
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100 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "axes"), gca);
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101 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "figure"), hf);
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102 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "hggroup"), hg2);
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103 %! assert (ancestor (hl, "hggroup", "toplevel"), hg1);
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104 %! assert (ancestor (hl, {"hggroup", "axes"}), hg2);
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105 %! assert (ancestor (hl, {"hggroup", "axes"}, "toplevel"), gca);
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106 %! unwind_protect_cleanup
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107 %! close (hf);
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108 %! end_unwind_protect
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110 %!assert (ancestor ([], "axes"), [])
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112 %!error ancestor ()
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113 %!error ancestor (1,2,3)
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114 %!error <TYPE must be a string> ancestor (1,2)
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115 %!error <third argument must be "toplevel"> ancestor (1, "axes", "foo")
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