tomwalters@0: % method of class @parameter
tomwalters@0: % 
bleeck@3: % (c) 2011, University of Southampton
bleeck@3: % Maintained by Stefan Bleeck (bleeck@gmail.com)
bleeck@3: % download of current version is on the soundsoftware site: 
bleeck@3: % http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/aimmat
bleeck@3: % documentation and everything is on http://www.acousticscale.org
tomwalters@0: function name=gettext(param,i,inbox)
tomwalters@0: % return the description text of the parameter with the entry number i.
tomwalters@0: % if i is a string then return the full string of the probably abbreviated
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: if nargin==1
tomwalters@0:     name=param.name;
tomwalters@0:     return
tomwalters@0: end
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: if isnumeric(i)
tomwalters@0:     name=param.entries{i}.text;
tomwalters@0: elseif ischar(i)
tomwalters@0:     if nargin==2 % search in all subsections
tomwalters@0:         inbox='all';
tomwalters@0:     end
tomwalters@0:     nr=getentrynumberbytext(param,i,inbox);
tomwalters@0:     name=param.entries{nr}.text;
tomwalters@0: end