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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005-2011 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} {} gca () |
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21 ## Return a handle to the current axis object. If no axis object |
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22 ## exists, create one and return its handle. The handle may then be |
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23 ## used to examine or set properties of the axes. For example, |
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24 ## |
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25 ## @example |
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26 ## @group |
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27 ## ax = gca (); |
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28 ## set (ax, "position", [0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5]); |
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29 ## @end group |
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30 ## @end example |
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31 ## |
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32 ## @noindent |
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33 ## creates an empty axes object, then changes its location and size in |
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34 ## the figure window. |
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35 ## @seealso{get, set} |
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36 ## @end deftypefn |
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37 |
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38 ## Author: jwe |
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39 |
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40 function h = gca () |
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41 |
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42 if (nargin == 0) |
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43 h = get (gcf (), "currentaxes"); |
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44 if (isempty (h)) |
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45 h = axes (); |
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46 endif |
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47 else |
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48 print_usage (); |
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49 endif |
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50 |
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51 endfunction |