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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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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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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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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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18 |
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} gcf () |
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21 ## Return the current figure handle. If a figure does not exist, create |
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22 ## one and return its handle. The handle may then be used to examine or |
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23 ## set properties of the figure. For example, |
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24 ## |
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25 ## @example |
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26 ## @group |
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27 ## fplot (@@sin, [-10, 10]); |
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28 ## fig = gcf (); |
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29 ## set (fig, "visible", "off"); |
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30 ## @end group |
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31 ## @end example |
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32 ## |
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33 ## @noindent |
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34 ## plots a sine wave, finds the handle of the current figure, and then |
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35 ## makes that figure invisible. Setting the visible property of the |
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36 ## figure to @code{"on"} will cause it to be displayed again. |
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37 ## @seealso{get, set} |
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38 ## @end deftypefn |
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39 |
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40 ## Author: jwe, Bill Denney |
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41 |
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42 function h = gcf () |
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43 |
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44 if (nargin == 0) |
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45 h = get (0, "currentfigure"); |
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46 if (isempty (h) || h == 0) |
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47 ## We only have a root figure object, so create a new figure |
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48 ## object and make it the current figure. |
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49 h = figure (1); |
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50 endif |
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51 else |
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52 print_usage (); |
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53 endif |
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54 |
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55 endfunction |
