Comments on: Improving graphics interactivity

By: Alessandro Beda

Alessandro Beda — Fri, 05 May 2023 06:21:14 +0000

I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a "ButtonDownFcn" to the plots (see example below), then the modified interaction stops working completely.

hFig = figure('Pos',[10,10,400,300]);
hTabGroup = uitabgroup(hFig);
for iTab = 1 : 10
    hTab = uitab(hTabGroup, 'title',num2str(iTab));
    hPanel = uipanel(hTab);
    for iPanel = 1 : 10
        hPanel = uipanel(hPanel);
    end
    hAxes(iTab) = axes(hPanel); %see MLint note below
    plot(hAxes(iTab),1:5,'-ob','ButtonDownFcn','disp("hello")');
    hAxes(iTab).Interactions = [zoomInteraction regionZoomInteraction rulerPanInteraction];
    hAxes(iTab).Toolbar = [];
end
drawnow

Is this an expected behaviour?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:47:36 +0000

When I use the suggestion above to set the ‘defaultAxesCreateFcn’, it works as expected in that the axes toolbar is gone and the default behavior is to zoom. However, double-click does not reset the axes as it does when i manually select the zooming tool. Is there an easy way around this?

By: Collin

Collin — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:35:09 +0000

A potential lightweight alternative to the standard axes toolbar is the FloatingPalette

hFTB = controllib.plot.internal.FloatingPalette(FigureHandle, ButtonList)

It's not as pretty as the standard axes toolbar and has less button options but does not fade, works best for single axes figures. You need to set the standard toolbar invisible or set it to empty before creating the floating palette.

hAxes.Toolbar.Visible = 'off';  % or:
hAxes.Toolbar = [];

By: Komutan Logar

Komutan Logar — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:49:49 +0000

Thank you very much. I’m using dynamic plotting, moving particles, only one figure created as a digraph. The performance has slightly improved and I also didn’t need the toolbox and interactions(I removed them all) anyway. I would like to ask if it makes any difference if I remove the toolbox and interactions in the AxesCreationFcn or after the figure is created by using ax = gca; ax.Interactions = []; ?

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:00:32 +0000

In reply to Jeremiah. @Jeremiah - perhaps the default interactions are implemented only as the last step in the axes creation sequence, after the user-specified AxesCreationFcn callback has already executed.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:26:07 +0000

I tried to run your function during a figure(…) creation and it removes the axes toolbar but it does not change the interactions. Those only work once the axes is already created and then I change them. But I’d like to have this automated, even in the startup.m script. Can you think of why the toolbar portion works but the interactions don’t while used as a defaultAxesCreationFcn ?

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 24 May 2019 12:26:02 +0000

I’d love to be able to customize the appearance of the axes toolbar rather than replacing it. Frustratingly my attempts have led to not very much success, I can move it from it’s current location fairly easily and resize it once it’s visible, but the size is reset every time the menu appears. I wonder if anyone else has had any success?

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Tue, 21 May 2019 08:07:31 +0000

In reply to Andreas. @Andreas - as far as I could see there is no change in R2019a.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 21 May 2019 07:23:03 +0000

Great article.

Do you know if something changed with R2019a? Is MathWorks working on this new “feature” and improving it?