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+## Copyright (C) 2010-2012 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.
+##
+## 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{style} =} __next_line_style__ (@var{reset})
+## Undocumented internal function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Return the next line style in the rotation.
+
+
+function [linestyle, marker] = __next_line_style__ (reset)
+
+ persistent style_rotation;
+ persistent num_styles;
+ persistent style_index;
+
+ if (nargin < 2)
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ if (ischar (reset) && strncmp (reset, "incr", 4))
+ if (isempty (style_rotation))
+ error ("__next_line_style__: style_rotation not initialized");
+ elseif (++style_index > num_styles)
+ style_index = 1;
+ endif
+ elseif (reset || isempty (style_rotation))
+ style_rotation = get (gca (), "linestyleorder");
+ if (ischar (style_rotation))
+ style_rotation = strsplit (style_rotation, "|");
+ endif
+ num_styles = length (style_rotation);
+ style_index = 1;
+ endif
+ elseif (! isempty (style_rotation))
+ options = __pltopt__ ("__next_line_style__",
+ style_rotation (style_index));
+ linestyle = options.linestyle;
+ marker = options.marker;
+ else
+ error ("__next_line_style__: style_rotation not initialized");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+endfunction