batmanabcdefg / xfigure

MATALB figure extended

xfigure - v1.6

Extended figure with additional interactive mouse controls.

News:

• 1.6 InfoText added. Simplifies adding textbox using cell array of strings. H.InfoText holds the handle.
• 1.5 Cleaned up input parsing using inputParser. Minor changes to input.
• 1.4 Added GKPF. Graphical Key Press Function. Ammends the default keypress with user defined keys. Use GKPF to add own hotkeys. Keep GKPF.m inside your project files.

Features

Mouse features

• CTRL + click to rotate. Useful for any 3d Visualization
• CTRL + scroll to zoom in and out
• Middle mouse + drag to pan

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Keyboard Hotkeys

• G - to toggle Grid
• CTRL+R to reset axis (beta)
• Shift+S to snap the view.
• Shift+P to save the current position and size of the figure window. Next time it loads, the figure with the same number will automatically assume the saved figure position.

Installation

Put xfigure.m and xfigure_KPF.m somewhere on your matlab path. Use GKPF.m as a template in each project where you want to override keypresses.

GKPF

Usage (Matlab 2014b)

[h1.fig,xf1] = xfigure;
h1.patch = patch(....);
h1.quiver = quiver3(...);
h1.light(1) = light;
h1.fig.KeyPressFcn = {@GKPF,xf1,h1};