How do I disable the Zoom buttons in the figure toolbar?

I would like to disable the Zoom buttons in the figure toolbar?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

You can use the UISUSPEND command to suspend all the interactive properties of a figure. For more this function type:

help uisuspend

at the MATLAB command prompt.

To disable only the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons in the figure toolbar, you can use the following code according to your version of MATLAB.:

For MATLAB 6.5 (R13) and MATLAB 6.5.1 (R13SP1):

figure_handle=figure(1)

handles=findall(figure_handle,'type','uitoggletool'); 

index=logical(strcmp(get(handles,'Tag'),'figToolZoomOut')+strcmp(get(handles,'Tag'),'figToolZoomIn')); 

zoom_handles=handles(index); 

set(zoom_handles,'enable','off');

For MATLAB 7.0 (R14) and later

Beginning in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) the "Tag" properties of the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons changed as illustrated below.

figure_handle=figure(1)

handles=findall(figure_handle,'type','uitoggletool'); 

index=logical(strcmp(get(handles,'Tag'),'Exploration.ZoomOut')+strcmp(get(handles,'Tag'),'Exploration.ZoomIn')); 

zoom_handles=handles(index); 

set(zoom_handles,'enable','off');