MATLAB®

getpixelposition - Get component position in pixels

Syntax

position = getpixelposition(handle)
position = getpixelposition(handle,recursive)

Description

position = getpixelposition(handle) gets the position, in pixel units, of the component with handle handle. The position is returned as a four-element vector that specifies the location and size of the component: [distance from left, distance from bottom, width, height].

position = getpixelposition(handle,recursive) gets the position as above. If recursive is true, the returned position is relative to the parent figure of handle.

Use the getpixelposition function only to obtain coordinates for children of figures and container components (uipanels, or uibuttongroups). Results are not reliable for children of axes or other Handle Graphics objects.

Example

This example creates a push button within a panel, and then retrieves its position, in pixels, relative to the panel.

f = figure('Position',[300 300 300 200]);
p = uipanel('Position',[.2 .2 .6 .6]);
h1 = uicontrol(p,'Style','PushButton','Units','Normalized',...
               'String','Push Button','Position',[.1 .1 .5 .2]);
pos1 = getpixelposition(h1)

pos1 =
     18.6000  12.6000  88.0000  23.2000

The following statement retrieves the position of the push button, in pixels, relative to the figure.

pos1 = getpixelposition(h1,true)

pos1 =
      79.6000  53.6000  88.0000  23.2000

See Also

setpixelposition, uicontrol, uipanel

getinterpmethod

getpref