Add a useful package (from Source forge) for octave

[CreaPhase.git] / octave_packages / geometry-1.5.0 / io / @svg / loadsvgdata.m

diff --git a/octave_packages/geometry-1.5.0/io/@svg/loadsvgdata.m b/octave_packages/geometry-1.5.0/io/@svg/loadsvgdata.m
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+%% Copyright (c) 2011 Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
+%% 
+%%    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+%%    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+%%    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+%%    any later version.
+%%
+%%    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+%%    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+%%    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+%%    GNU General Public License for more details.
+%%
+%%    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+%%    along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+function data = loadsvgdata (obj, svg, varargin)
+
+  here   = which ("@svg/loadsvgdata");
+  here   = fileparts (here);
+  script = fullfile (here, 'parseSVGData.py');
+
+  %% Call python script
+  if exist (svg,'file')
+  % read from file  
+    [st str]=system (sprintf ('python %s %s', script, svg));
+    
+  else
+  % inline SVG  
+    [st str]=system (sprintf ('python %s < %s', script, svg));
+  end
+  
+  %% Parse ouput
+  strdata = strsplit (str(1:end-1), '$', true);
+  eval (strdata);
+
+endfunction