Comments on: Do you dock figure windows? What does your desktop look like?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:14:58 +0000

@jarrad, I'm not sure what you're looking for here, but try the command figure(N), where N is the figure handle, (you can use gcf for the "current" figure").

By: jarrad

jarrad — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:14:04 +0000

I am currently using the line below
set(0,’DefaultFigureWindowStyle’,'docked’)
in to automatically dock the figure i create.

the problem i am having is that i want it to select the figure automatically so the user can see it without having to manually click on it. is this possible?

also it creates a warning for the menu that i am using, can this be avoided?
mode = menu(‘Sample?’,'Answer 1′,’Answer 2′);

Thanks

By: David

David — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:38:29 +0000

@Tobias The warning is due to your initial magnification setting, which is not usable with a docked figure as docked figures have a fixed size in the desktop. In other words, Matlab can't resize the figure to match your magnification option. To solve this, you can change the default magnification to "Fit" in the Matlab Preferences/Image Processing under Initial Magnification. (Alternately, you can use the command

iptsetpref('ImshowInitialMagnification', 'fit')

Otherwise, you can set the initial magnification option each time you use imshow as in :

imshow( , 'InitialMagnification', 'fit')

By: Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:07:35 +0000

I use the commands:

set(0,’DefaultFigureWindowStyle’,'docked’); and
set(0,’DefaultFigureWindowStyle’,'normal’);

But how can I get rid of the warning: “The initial magnification of the image is set to ‘fit’ in a docked figure.” ??

I don’t want to just suppress the warning.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:13:47 +0000

Hey, I want to dock the figure windows by programming till i am asking the user for inputs. After all the inputs are accepted i want that that the docked figure window should be undocked or the figure should get cleared by programming,
please help.

By: yanting

yanting — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:54:11 +0000

Dear Mr Altman
Thank you very much for your reply and the setFigDockGroup file, it really helps! i’m be waiting for a future Matlab release for panel docking, your teams are really great teams! thanks again.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:35:49 +0000

@Yanting – you can only dock figures into a group container window – you cannot dock into another figure window in the current Matlab release.

My setFigDockGroup utility (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16650-setfigdockgroup ) enables docking to a group container or to a figure button (minimized), but not to a figure panel as I assume you requested. We need to wait for a future Matlab release for panel docking; in the meantime use setFigDockGroup.

-Yair

By: yanting

yanting — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:09:39 +0000

I have the same question as Per, i created a lots of GUIs, i want some figures can be docked in the main figure, not in the desktop. How could i do? I searched all over the internet but didnt get replies. Can u help me? thanks a lot!

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:24:31 +0000

Hi Per,

Thanks for the request and use case. We’ll keep it in mind.

-Ken

By: Per

Per — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:13 +0000

I never dock windows in the desktop. However, I develop large and complex GUIs and one docking feature I would definitely use, if it was available, was to dock figures inside other figures. For instance, I have one GUI that generates a lot of subplots. It would be useful to have those subplots docked inside my main GUI (not all the time, of course, some users may want to blow up the figures by undocking and maximising). Perhaps something the Matlab Dev team can think about implementing…