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+## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Bill Denney
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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 (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{h} =} allchild (@var{handles})
+## Find all children, including hidden children, of a graphics object.
+##
+## This function is similar to @code{get (h, "children")}, but also
+## returns hidden objects. If @var{handles} is a scalar,
+## @var{h} will be a vector. Otherwise, @var{h} will be a cell matrix
+## of the same size as @var{handles} and each cell will contain a
+## vector of handles.
+## @seealso{get, set, findall, findobj}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws>
+
+function h = allchild (handles)
+
+ shh = get (0, "showhiddenhandles");
+ unwind_protect
+ set (0, "showhiddenhandles", "on");
+ h = get (handles, "children");
+ unwind_protect_cleanup
+ set (0, "showhiddenhandles", shh);
+ end_unwind_protect
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!testif HAVE_FLTK
+%! toolkit = graphics_toolkit ();
+%! graphics_toolkit ("fltk");
+%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
+%! unwind_protect
+%! l = line;
+%! assert(get (allchild (hf),"type"),{"axes"; "uimenu"; "uimenu"; "uimenu"});
+%! unwind_protect_cleanup
+%! close (hf);
+%! graphics_toolkit (toolkit);
+%! end_unwind_protect
+