graphing -- make figure window larger

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Lisa
Lisa on 4 Mar 2015
Answered: Image Analyst on 4 Mar 2015
I'm plotting a bunch of points, but I want the figure window to appear larger when I run the code. I need this to be some command that I can include in the code. thanks

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 4 Mar 2015
Try set() to enlarge/resize, but not truly maximize , the window:
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0 0 1 1]);
or see Yair's function (attached) that uses an undocumented call to truly maximize the window.

Joseph Cheng
Joseph Cheng on 4 Mar 2015
Edited: Joseph Cheng on 4 Mar 2015
you can do something like this
figh = figure(1);
plot(1:10,1:10)
pos = get(figh,'position');
set(figh,'position',[pos(1:2)/4 pos(3:4)*2])
where you can get the position (pos) of the current position. then in the set() you can set the window x,y position of the lower left corner and then how wide and tall the figure is [lowerleftcornerx lowerleftcornery width height]. for my screen and initial figure position the above works out well.

Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 4 Mar 2015
The fullfig function creates full-screen figures. fullfig by itself initializes a new figure; fullfig(gcf) turns the current figure into a full-screen figure.

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