## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __uiobject_text_ctor__ (p)
## Create a text object with parent @var{p}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function h = __uiobject_text_ctor__ (p, varargin)

  if (nargin > 0)
    ## XXX FIXME XXX -- need to intialize all properties to default
    ## values here.
    s.type = "text";
    s.parent = p;
    s.children = [];
    s.string = "";

    s.units = "data";
    s.position = [0, 0, 0];
    s.horizontalalignment = "left";

    s.__validators__.string = @ischar;

    h = __uiobject_make_handle__ (s);

    set (h, varargin{:});
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

endfunction