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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## 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.
+##
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+## 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} {} fill (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{c})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} fill (@var{x1}, @var{y1}, @var{c1}, @var{x2}, @var{y2}, @var{c2})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} fill (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} fill (@var{h}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} fill (@dots{})
+## Create one or more filled patch objects.
+##
+## The optional return value @var{h} is an array of graphics handles to
+## the created patch objects.
+## @seealso{patch}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = fill (varargin)
+
+ [h, varargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("fill", varargin{:});
+
+ htmp = [];
+ iargs = __find_patches__ (varargin{:});
+
+ oldh = gca ();
+ unwind_protect
+ axes (h);
+
+ nextplot = get (h, "nextplot");
+ for i = 1 : length (iargs)
+ if (i > 1 && strncmp (nextplot, "replace", 7))
+ set (h, "nextplot", "add");
+ endif
+ if (i == length (iargs))
+ args = varargin (iargs(i):end);
+ else
+ args = varargin (iargs(i):iargs(i+1)-1);
+ endif
+ newplot ();
+ [tmp, fail] = __patch__ (h, args{:});
+ if (fail)
+ print_usage();
+ endif
+ htmp (end + 1) = tmp;
+ endfor
+ if (strncmp (nextplot, "replace", 7))
+ set (h, "nextplot", nextplot);
+ endif
+ unwind_protect_cleanup
+ axes (oldh);
+ end_unwind_protect
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = htmp;
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+function iargs = __find_patches__ (varargin)
+ iargs = [];
+ i = 1;
+ while (i < nargin)
+ iargs (end + 1) = i;
+ if (ischar (varargin{i})
+ && (strcmpi (varargin{i}, "faces")
+ || strcmpi (varargin{i}, "vertices")))
+ i += 4;
+ elseif (isnumeric (varargin{i}))
+ i += 2;
+ endif
+
+ if (i <= nargin)
+ while (true);
+ if (ischar (varargin{i})
+ && (strcmpi (varargin{i}, "faces")
+ || strcmpi (varargin{i}, "vertices")))
+ break;
+ elseif (isnumeric (varargin{i}))
+ ## Assume its the colorspec
+ i++;
+ break;
+ elseif (ischar (varargin{i}))
+ colspec = tolower (varargin{i});
+ collen = length (colspec);
+
+ if (strncmp (colspec, "blue", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "black", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "k", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "black", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "red", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "green", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "yellow", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "magenta", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "cyan", collen)
+ || strncmp (colspec, "white", collen))
+ i++;
+ break;
+ endif
+ else
+ i += 2;
+ endif
+ endwhile
+ endif
+ endwhile
+endfunction
+
+
+%!demo
+%! clf
+%! t1 = (1/16:1/8:1)*2*pi;
+%! t2 = ((1/16:1/8:1) + 1/32)*2*pi;
+%! x1 = sin (t1) - 0.8;
+%! y1 = cos (t1);
+%! x2 = sin (t2) + 0.8;
+%! y2 = cos (t2);
+%! h = fill (x1,y1,'r', x2,y2,'g');
+