Opening stored figures directly in GUI
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I've stumbled upon this problem which I thought would be easy to solve, but my limited experience with Matlab forced me to seek for help.
I have a figure stored in a .fig file, and I have a GUI with an 'axes' object. I would like to open the stored figure file and display the figure in the axes of the GUI. What is the best way to achieve this?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Sean de Wolski
on 3 Jul 2012
Edited: Sean de Wolski
on 3 Jul 2012
This is not possible. An axes cannot be a container for a figure. You could load the figure, take a snapshot of it ( getframe or print ) and then display this as an image in the axes but all functionality will be gone.
What are you trying to do? Perhaps we could help you come up with a nicer solution.
Kevin Claytor
on 3 Jul 2012
You could transfer the data over reasonably fast with something like;
% Example of transfering data from one figure to another
f1 = figure; % The figure we want to transfer to
h2 = subplot(3,3,4); % The axes we want to transfer to
od = open('untitled.fig'); % Load our saved figure
%get(get(x,'CurrentAxes'))
% This command displays all the options we can
% transfer over, for this example, I'll just transfer the data
datahandles = get(get(x,'CurrentAxes'),'Children');
for ii = 1:length(datahandles)
set(datahandles(ii),'Parent',h2);
end
% Close the other figure
close(od)
You'll have to tweak it to transfer other properties (title, labels, etc) over, but that should get you started.
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Jan
on 22 Mar 2016
@Cheng: As you found out, you cannot open a the contents of a fig file in an axes object. You can copy axes objects to axes objects using copyobj.
Cheng, Nestic
on 29 Mar 2016
Thanks for reply!!! I've got some further question about using copyobj these days,try to copy axes objects to axes objects just as your mention(still failed :P) Therefor I write another Post to ask more about this! http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/275954-problem-with-transfer-information-from-a-axes-to-another-in-gui-using-copyobj
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