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+## Copyright (C) 2008 Michael Goffioul
+##
+## 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} {} hggroup ()
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hggroup (@var{h})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hggroup (@dots{}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
+## Create group object with parent @var{h}. If no parent is specified,
+## the group is created in the current axes. Return the handle of the
+## group object created.
+##
+## Multiple property-value pairs may be specified for the group, but they
+## must appear in pairs.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: goffioul
+
+function h = hggroup (varargin)
+
+  [ax, varargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("hggroup", varargin{:});
+
+  tmp = __go_hggroup__ (ax, varargin{:});
+
+  if (nargout > 0)
+    h = tmp;
+  endif
+
+endfunction