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

-Ken

Normaly I do not dock any figures. Every figure opens a new window. But after the upgrade to Matlab R2007a I have some problems with that. When editing a figure, the figure automaticly moves to this figure group container. Of course after editing I could undock it again but thats annoying. Is there any way to avoid this docking?

An other way might be to dock all figures right from the beginning to this container. I found one way to do so:
set(0,’DefaultFigureWindowStyle’,'docked’)
Do you work like that?

I thought for my problem there might be the opposite of this setting, but all I tried was without success. When starting to edit the figure, it moves to the container again.

So maybe you know something about that, the documentation about this container is very poor in the help, I feel. (As it is in general about these “desktop-topics”.)

Hoping for you

Antonia

desktop.setGroupDocked(’Figures’,false);

I have been hoping for a way to handle the following:

Create a batch of figures in a script (e.g., by running a simulation and making plots using the results) and automatically force those figures to dock into the figure container (separate from the desktop) with a specified size.

My workaround so far has been:

1) Create the figures
2) Run the following script to dock all of the figures:

last_fig_no=max(get(0, ‘Children’));

for fig_no=1:last_fig_no
figure(fig_no)
set(gcf, ‘WindowStyle’, ‘docked’)
end
clear last_fig_no fig_no

3) Manually undock the figure container from the desktop and set the size.

Yair Altman’s approach seems to work for setting the container size. It seems that the missing piece is how to “Undock” the container window. When the container window is still docked in the desktop, the container.setSize method resizes the entire Matlab desktop.

desktop=com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
container=desktop.getGroupContainer(’Figures’).getTopLevelAncestor;
container.setSize(width,height); % e.g., (500,300)

You can also do the following useful actions:
container.setAlwaysOnTop(1); % or 0 to return to normal
container.setMaximized(1); % or 0 to return to normal
container.setMinimized(1); % or 0 to return to normal
container.setVisible(1); % or 0 to hide - ignore the java error…
container.methodsview; % show full list of possible actions

After learning about the ability to dock figures into the desktop “figure container” or figure group and then undock the group from the desktop, I’ve started using this feature a lot. I wish, however, that there was a way to programmatically control the size of the figure group or “container” window. Is there a way to do this?

I like the idea of using the group to keep all figures the same size without having to individually set figure position for each figure. Unfortunately, the only way that I kind find for setting the size of the group is interactively sizing this container window.