draggableRect

Create a draggable rectangle in normalized units.
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Updated 1 Sep 2016

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Like MATLAB's dragrect function, this function allows you to interactively define a draggable rectangle. However, UNLIKE MATLAB's function, this version works in normalized units, and it includes SNAP-TO behavior to constrain the rectangle to a user-specified grid.
Syntactically, the function is implemented to use Parameter-Value pairs, and allows the user to specify a non-interactive starting point, arrays of x- and y- points for snap-to behavior, and the axis you want to draw in. Outputs variables can contain a handle to the created rectangle, as well as an array of handles to the draggable perimeter points. (Output points are in the order: [BL,BR,TL,TR,BM,TM,RM,LM]).
Now accepts a "new position callback function."

Thanks to Francois Bouffard for his excellent implementation of "draggable," which greatly facilitated this entry.

Cite As

Brett Shoelson (2024). draggableRect (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35895-draggablerect), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2011b
Compatible with any release
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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.1

Updated license

1.1.0.0

Modified to allow specification of new position callback function. Also added new example to show how to use draggableRect on top of an image axes (for example).

1.0.0.0