Comments on: Tiling without a Wet Saw http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/ Ken & Mike work on the MATLAB Desktop team Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:49:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Peter http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4358 Peter Thu, 01 May 2008 12:07:46 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4358 The figures container and plot tools are designed to be interactive tools. As such they do not provide programmatic APIs that offer the level of precise control you are looking for. The basics of figures container interactive use are covered in the help documentation at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f5-41409.html The figures container and plot tools are designed to be interactive tools. As such they do not provide programmatic APIs that offer the level of precise control you are looking for. The basics of figures container interactive use are covered in the help documentation at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f5-41409.html

]]> By: naor http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4349 naor Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:25:37 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4349 Thanks Peter! This went a long way toward fixing my desktop experience. My bet that the author of the post would have a feed to the comments months later paid off :) I am trying to learn more about this container object but I'm having trouble locating it in the documentation. For example, how can I get/set the container size so that if someone were, say, a perfection freak they could make the container the right size for a single maximized figure in it would be x pixels wide by y high? Thanks again, -naor Thanks Peter!
This went a long way toward fixing my desktop experience. My bet that the author of the post would have a feed to the comments months later paid off :)
I am trying to learn more about this container object but I’m having trouble locating it in the documentation. For example, how can I get/set the container size so that if someone were, say, a perfection freak they could make the container the right size for a single maximized figure in it would be x pixels wide by y high?
Thanks again,
-naor

]]> By: Peter http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4347 Peter Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:57:42 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4347 Noar, You can achieve something similar to the old behavior as follows: <p> <ol> <li>From the MATALB desktop menu bar choose Desktop->Figures</li> <li>Undock the empty figures container and adjust its size and location as you wish</li> <li>Click the Show Plot Tools tool bar button</li> <li>Undock each of the plot tools (using the undock button on the upper right of each title bar) </li> <li>Drag and size the undocked plot tools such that they surround the Figures container along the lines of the screen shot below</li> <li>Now whenever you select the plot tools for a particular figure it will drop into the container, leaving the plot tools around it border</li> </ol> </p> <p> Granted this is a fair number of steps but the position and size of the Figures container and the plot tools will be remembered across sessions, so you should only have to do the first five steps once. <a href='http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/../images/desktop/undockedplottools.png' title='Undocked Plot Tools' rel="nofollow"><img src='http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/../images/desktop/undockedplottools.thumbnail.png' alt='Undocked Plot Tools' /></a> </p> Noar,

You can achieve something similar to the old behavior as follows:

  1. From the MATALB desktop menu bar choose Desktop->Figures
  2. Undock the empty figures container and adjust its size and location as you wish
  3. Click the Show Plot Tools tool bar button
  4. Undock each of the plot tools (using the undock button on the upper right of each title bar)
  5. Drag and size the undocked plot tools such that they surround the Figures container along the lines of the screen shot below
  6. Now whenever you select the plot tools for a particular figure it will drop into the container, leaving the plot tools around it border

Granted this is a fair number of steps but the position and size of the Figures container and the plot tools will be remembered across sessions, so you should only have to do the first five steps once.

Undocked Plot Tools

]]> By: naor http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4344 naor Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:13:53 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2007/10/22/tiling-without-a-wet-saw/#comment-4344 I know it's an old post but I have questions about the Figures container and the forums are mostly silent on this feature. I had a neat and plesent work flow for interactive plotting with R2006a. I think the introduction of the Figures container is what messed it up. Used to be, when I pressed the show plot tools button, the figure would be surrounded by all the lovely tools, WITHOUT changing the figure window size and position. Now it's the "show plot tools and dock figure" button, only the property editor shows up when I press it, and the figure size is fouled up. I have to go to the View menu to bring up the figure palette and the plot browser, and they further mess with my figure size. In fact they squeeze it into uselessness. I resize the figure so I can work with it, and when I hide the plot tools the figure expands to uselessness! I think this is related to the new "...and dock figure" part, but I'm not sure. Is there anyway I can recreate the older neater way? Is there a way to "show plot tools" but NOT "dock figure", as an experiment? My work flow also includes a mixture of interactive and command line usage which is now greatly hampered, because docked figures cannot be resized by set command. Big thanks for any tips, as well as to any person who read this too long question regardless of answer, -naor I know it’s an old post but I have questions about the Figures container and the forums are mostly silent on this feature.

I had a neat and plesent work flow for interactive plotting with R2006a. I think the introduction of the Figures container is what messed it up. Used to be, when I pressed the show plot tools button, the figure would be surrounded by all the lovely tools, WITHOUT changing the figure window size and position. Now it’s the “show plot tools and dock figure” button, only the property editor shows up when I press it, and the figure size is fouled up. I have to go to the View menu to bring up the figure palette and the plot browser, and they further mess with my figure size. In fact they squeeze it into uselessness. I resize the figure so I can work with it, and when I hide the plot tools the figure expands to uselessness! I think this is related to the new “…and dock figure” part, but I’m not sure. Is there anyway I can recreate the older neater way? Is there a way to “show plot tools” but NOT “dock figure”, as an experiment? My work flow also includes a mixture of interactive and command line usage which is now greatly hampered, because docked figures cannot be resized by set command.
Big thanks for any tips, as well as to any person who read this too long question regardless of answer,
-naor

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