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July 12th, 2007

Tracking the mouse pointer

In MATLAB, with tooltips, you can know what the value of a line is at a given point:

Nogtrack.jpg

But if you want to know the value of an arbitrary point in a figure, you will want gtrack:

gtrack.JPG

This is a nice little utility function that can be put on your MATLAB path, and then invoked with a few keystrokes at the command line. I like how the title keeps the X,Y formatted such that as you move the mouse the values do not jump around the title as significant figures in the location change.

By Doug Hull

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2 Responses to “Tracking the mouse pointer”

  1. mnada replied on April 28th, 2008 at 21:51 UTC :

    i like this code but how can i get it plz help me

  2. Doug replied on April 29th, 2008 at 08:51 UTC :

    The link to gTrack is in between the two images.

    Doug

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