## Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Teemu Ikonen
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __errcomm__ (@var{args})
## Common argument handling code for all error plots (errorbar, loglogerr,
## semilogyerr, semilogxerr).
## @seealso{errorbar, semilogxerr, semilogyerr, loglogerr, __pltopt__}
## @end deftypefn

## Created: 20.02.2001
## Author: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi>
## Keywords: errorbar, plotting

function retval = __errcomm__ (caller, p, varargin)

  if (nargin < 4)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  nargs = length (varargin);

  k = 1;
  idx = 1;
  data = cell(6,1);
  while (k <= nargs)
    a = varargin{k++};
    if (isvector (a))
      a = a(:);
    elseif (ismatrix (a))
      ;
    else
      usage ("%s (...)", caller);
    endif
    sz = size (a);
    ndata = 1;
    data{ndata} = a;
    while (k <= nargs)
      a = varargin{k++};
      if (ischar (a) || iscellstr (a))
	retval(idx++) = __errplot__ (a, p, data{1:ndata});
	break;
      elseif (isvector (a))
	a = a(:);
      elseif (ismatrix (a))
	;
      else
	error ("wrong argument types");
      endif
      if (size (a) != sz)
	error ("argument sizes do not match");
      endif
      data{++ndata} = a;
      if (ndata > 6)
	error ("too many arguments to a plot");
      endif
    endwhile
  endwhile

  if (! (ischar (a) || iscellstr (a)))
    retval(idx++) = __errplot__ ("~", p, data{1:ndata});
  endif

  drawnow ();

endfunction