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+## Copyright (C) 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{data} =} guidata (@var{handle})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} guidata (@var{handle}, @var{data})
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: goffioul
+
+function varargout = guidata (varargin)
+
+ if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
+ h = varargin{1};
+ if (ishandle (h))
+ h = ancestor (h, "figure");
+ if (! isempty (h))
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ varargout{1} = get (h, "__guidata__");
+ else
+ data = varargin{2};
+ set (h, "__guidata__", data);
+ if (nargout == 1)
+ varargout{1} = data;
+ endif
+ endif
+ else
+ error ("no ancestor figure found");
+ endif
+ else
+ error ("invalid object handle");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+endfunction