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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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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
+