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diff scripts/plot/hold.m @ 8065:6333da0dfdfd
hold.m: if hold is applied to a figure, set state for all child axes objects
author: John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:05:13 -0400
parents: 85c5c1d55820
children: a028a5960e18
--- a/scripts/plot/hold.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/hold.m
@@ -44,12 +44,15 @@
 
 function hold (varargin)
 
-  [h, varargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("hold", varargin{:});
+  if (nargin > 0 && ishandle (varargin{1}))
+    [h, varargin, nargs] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("hold", varargin{:});
+  else
+    h = gcf ();
+    nargs = numel (varargin);
+  endif
 
   hold_state = get (h, "nextplot");
 
-  nargs = numel (varargin);
-
   if (nargs == 0)
     if (strcmp (hold_state, "add"))
       hold_state = "replace";
@@ -71,6 +74,11 @@
     print_usage ();
   endif
 
+  if (isfigure (h))
+    axes_objs = findobj (h, "type", "axes");
+    h = [h; axes_objs];
+  endif
+
   set (h, "nextplot", hold_state);
 
 endfunction