## Copyright (C)  2007, 2008, 2009 David Bateman
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} caxis (@var{limits})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} caxis (@var{h}, @dots{})
## Set color axis limits for plots.
##
## The argument @var{limits} should be a 2 element vector specifying the 
## lower and upper limits to assign to the first and last value in the
## colormap. Values outside this range are clamped to the first and last
## colormap entries. 
##
## If @var{limits} is 'auto', then automatic colormap scaling is applied,
## whereas if @var{limits} is 'manual' the colormap scaling is set to manual.
##
## Called without any arguments to current color axis limits are returned.
##
## If an axes handle is passed as the first argument, then operate on
## this axes rather than the current axes.
## @end deftypefn

function varargout = caxis (varargin)

  [h, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("caxis", varargin{:});

  oldh = gca ();
  unwind_protect
    axes (h);
    varargout = cell (max (nargin == 0, nargout), 1);
    if (isempty (varargout))
      __caxis__ (h, varargin{:});
    else
      [varargout{:}] = __caxis__ (h, varargin{:});
    endif
  unwind_protect_cleanup
    axes (oldh);
  end_unwind_protect

endfunction

function [cmin, cmax] = __caxis__ (ca, ax, varargin)

  if (nargin == 1)
    cmin = get (ca, "clim");
    if (nargout > 1)
      cmax = cmin(2);
      cmin = cmin(1);
    endif
  elseif (ischar (ax))
    if (strcmpi (ax, "auto"))
      set (ca, "climmode", "auto");
    elseif (strcmpi (ax, "manual"))
      set (ca, "climmode", "manual");
    endif
  elseif (isvector (ax))
    len = length (ax);

    if (len != 2)
      error ("caxis: expecting vector with 2 elements");
    endif

    set (ca, "clim", [ax(1), ax(2)]);
  else
    error ("caxis: expecting no args, a string or a 2 element vector");
  endif

  if (nargin > 2)
    __caxis__ (ca, varargin{:})'
  endif

endfunction
      
