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+## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Michael Goffioul
+##
+## 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{fig} =} gcbf ()
+## Return a handle to the figure containing the object whose callback
+## is currently executing. If no callback is executing, this function
+## returns the empty matrix. The handle returned by this function is
+## the same as the second output argument of gcbo.
+##
+##@seealso{gcf, gca, gcbo}
+##@end deftypefn
+
+function fig = gcbf ()
+
+ [dummy, fig] = gcbo ();
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! assert (isempty (gcbf ));