--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/m-toolbox/classes/@ao/fromProcinfo.m	Wed Nov 23 19:22:13 2011 +0100
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+% FROMPROCINFO returns for a given key-name the value of the procinfo-plist
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: FROMPROCINFO returns for a given key-name the value of the
+%              procinfo - parameter list
+%
+% CALL:        val = fromProcinfo(obj, 'key');
+%              val = obj.fromProcinfo('key');
+%              val = obj.fromProcinfo(plist('key', 'key_name'));
+%
+% PARAMETERS:  'key': key-name which should be found in the porcinfo-plist
+%
+% <a href="matlab:utils.helper.displayMethodInfo('ao', 'fromProcinfo')">Parameters Description</a>
+%
+% VERSION:     $Id: fromProcinfo.m,v 1.7 2011/04/08 08:56:11 hewitson Exp $
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function val = fromProcinfo(varargin)
+  
+  % Check if this is a call for parameters
+  if utils.helper.isinfocall(varargin{:})
+    val = getInfo(varargin{3});
+    return
+  end
+
+  % Collect all AOs
+  as  = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), 'ao');
+  pl  = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), 'plist');
+  key = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), 'char');
+  
+  if isempty(key) && ~isempty(pl) && pl.nparams == 1 && pl.isparam('key')
+    key = pl.find('key');
+  end
+  
+  if ~ischar(key)
+    error('### Please specify only one key as a string.');
+  end
+  
+  if numel(as) ~= 1
+    error('### This method works only for one input AO.');
+  end
+  
+  val = as.procinfo.find(key);
+  
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                               Local Functions                               %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getInfo
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Info Object
+%
+% HISTORY:     11-07-07 M Hewitson
+%                Creation.
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function ii = getInfo(varargin)
+  if nargin == 1 && strcmpi(varargin{1}, 'None')
+    sets = {};
+    pl   = [];
+  else
+    sets = {'Default'};
+    pl   = getDefaultPlist;
+  end
+  % Build info object
+  ii = minfo(mfilename, 'ao', 'ltpda', utils.const.categories.helper, '$Id: fromProcinfo.m,v 1.7 2011/04/08 08:56:11 hewitson Exp $', sets, pl);
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getDefaultPlist
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Default Plist
+%
+% HISTORY:     11-07-07 M Hewitson
+%                Creation.
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function plout = getDefaultPlist()
+  persistent pl;  
+  if exist('pl', 'var')==0 || isempty(pl)
+    pl = buildplist();
+  end
+  plout = pl;  
+end
+
+function plo = buildplist()
+  plo = plist('key', '');
+end
+
+