Comments on: Getting default HG property values

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:57:01 +0000

In reply to Royi. @Royi - no, get(0,'FactoryFigureColor') works just fine for me:

>> get(0,'FactoryFigureColor')
ans =
          0.94              0.94              0.94

By: Royi

Royi — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:49:49 +0000

Hi, Did they replaced the '0' in get(0,'FactoryFigureColor') to 'groot' -> get(groot, 'FactoryFigureColor')?

By: Creating high-quality graphics in MATLAB for papers and presentations | David Gleich: a notebook

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:15:55 +0000

[…] are forgotten! Recently, the Undocumented Matlab Blog had a great post about these hidden defaultshttp://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/getting-default-hg-property-values/. There are many other properties that can potentially be changed as […]

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:12:06 +0000

Apart from get(0, 'factory') there's (since MATLAB 2013a) the undocumented function rootfactoryvalues(), that also returns a structure with a lot of factory values. The list returned by the latter is much shorter, but contains values not returned by the former. I failed to see a pattern, but maybe someone else is more inclined to investigate further. :) Thanks for this interesting post! It improved my understanding of the MATLAB graphics system, which is one of my weaknesses.

By: Donn Shull

Donn Shull — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:23:26 +0000

One interesting note is that handle graphic objects including root are sub classes of the abstract base class GObject. GObject defines 29 properties with 11 hidden properties. Sixteen of these properties have Factory values.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:30:49 +0000

It is not clear from your post, but you can also set default values of objects other than the root object. I often will generate a figure and then set its default values ...

hfig = figure;
set(hfig, 'defaultAxesColorOrder', 'rgb');

so that all the axes on that figure have a custom value.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:17:58 +0000

I’ve been wondering about these defaults for a while now. Thanks for posting this.