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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996 Auburn University. All rights reserved. |
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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 the |
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7 ## Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any |
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8 ## later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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11 ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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12 ## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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13 ## 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, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02110-1301 USA. |
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19 |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} prompt (@var{str}) |
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22 ## Prompt user to continue |
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23 ## |
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24 ## @strong{Input} |
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25 ## @table @var |
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26 ## @item str |
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27 ## Input string. Its default value is: |
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28 ## @example |
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29 ## \n ---- Press a key to continue --- |
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30 ## @end example |
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31 ## @end table |
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32 ## @end deftypefn |
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33 |
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34 ## Author: David Clem |
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35 ## Created: August 15, 1994 |
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36 ## Modified A. S. Hodel June 1995 |
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37 |
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38 function prompt (str) |
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39 |
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40 if (nargin > 1) |
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41 usage ("prompt ([str])"); |
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42 elseif (nargin == 0) |
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43 str = "\n ---- Press a key to continue ---"; |
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44 elseif (! ischar (str) ) |
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45 error ("prompt: input must be a string"); |
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46 endif |
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47 |
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48 disp (str); |
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49 fflush (stdout); |
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50 kbhit (); |
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51 |
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52 endfunction |
