## Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton
##
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## Undocumented internal function.

## Return the next line color in the rotation.

## Author: jwe

function rgb = __next_line_color__ (reset)

  persistent color_rotation;
  persistent num_colors;
  persistent color_index;

  if (nargin < 2)
    if (nargin == 1 && reset)
      color_rotation = get (gca (), "colororder");
      num_colors = rows (color_rotation);
      color_index = 1;
    elseif (! isempty (color_rotation))
      rgb = color_rotation(color_index,:);
      if (++color_index > num_colors)
	color_index = 1;
      endif
    else
      error ("__next_line_color__: color_rotation not initialized");
    endif
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

endfunction
