Use the Location or the Position properties. For example,

% set the plot
t     = 0:.01:7; 
hPlot = plot(t,sin(t));
% draw the cursorbars
if verLessThan('matlab','8.4.0') % HG1 version
    hCursorbar1 = graphics.cursorbar(hPlot);
    hCursorbar2 = graphics.cursorbar(hPlot);
else % HG2 version, latest version on FEX
    hCursorbar1 = cursorbar(hPlot);
    hCursorbar2 = cursorbar(hPlot);
end
% now, set the locations
hCursorbar1.Location = 2; 
hCursorbar2.Location = 4; 

I was trolling around on this section a few weeks ago and I thought I saw a link to the File Exchange for a function that plotted multiple cursor bars on a Magnitude/Power Spectrum that indicated a fundamental plus several harmonics. I cannot find this link anymore. Do you recall where this link might be or what the name of the function might be?

With a gigantic thanks to Yaroslav, we now have an updated for R2014b version of cursorbar posted on the File Exchange: cursorbar. I believe it’s a straight drop-in replacement that should support code written against the undocumented cursorbar from previous releases.

I have also encountered the same issue as @Dan — Being a very useful feature, some of my files rely heavily on graphics.cursorbar. Unfortunately, after TMW had decided to remove it, my programs ceased to work at all. Therefore, I needed a fast, reliable and indistinguishable solution (the last requirement is important: I didn’t want to modify large chunks of code).

Simiarly to @Dan, I also couldn’t find an adequate solution; thus, I decided to take the mission on myself. Taking all the old files in +graphics/@cursorbar, I modified them so that they work with HG2. Mainly, I merged schema and cursorbar to a single file built in Matlab’s new class system, and made a few minor changes to all other files. Since it is basically the same ol’ code, it works like a charm; almost no changes were required to my programs, and I feel it is even faster than the old cursorbar.

Now I have a dilemma: I want to publish my solution on the File Exchange, but most of the code and the entire logical structure is still TMW’s. Since I wish to avoid plagiarism and copyright issues, it creates quite a nuisance. How do you suggest to proceed?

Thanks, I will check it out!

@Dan – try Michelle Hirsch’s dualcursor utility. She’s the Matlab product manager at MathWorks, by the way.

Hi Yair,

nevermind – I finally did it.
As I mentioned before, linkprop does not show the desired behaviour.
I added a listener via “handle.listener” function on the position property to call the update-function for all involved cursorbar handles and it works fine. A bit slow in case of many cursorbars but it is OK.

So there was no need to copy or edit any matlab-files.

Thank you
Christoph

You can place a modified copy of the file(s) in your own user path, where it takes precedence over the built-in path. To synchronize different cursorbars, you can use the linkprop function.