Datetickzoom - automatically update dateticks

Label axis with date ticks that automatically update when zooming or panning

Description

DATETICKZOOM behaves completely identical to DATETICK, except that tick labels are automatically updated when zooming or panning.

Acknowledgements

This file inspired Datetick With Zooming Panning And Subplots and Tlabel.M V2.6.1 (Sep 2009).

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)

[Fredrik]

I agree on F Moisy comment from 2007. How do I use this witouth having to lose the date info when going down to hours and minutes?

[latheefth]

Hi,

I need to zoom it to milli sec, but it happens only till second.
datetickzoom('x','HH:MM:SS.FFF');
Is there any way of doing it?

[Nicolas]

hold arrowkey -> matlab crashes

[Karen]

 

[Marc Listmangof]

 

[adam]

 

[Florian]

Hi Christophe,
I'm getting the error "One or more output arguments not assigned during call" in line 39 when using datetickzoom('x'). Any clue what I'm doing wrong?
Cheers

[Carlos Adrián Vargas Aguilera]

Excellent job! Congratulations Christophe! I made a modification of your function and MATLAB's to put what is left by the ticks on the date-axis.

Rajesh: if time is in X-axis you can use
a = linkprop(h, {'XTick', 'XTickLabel', 'XLim', 'YLim'});
where h are your axes handles. And to link the label too:
b = linkprop(cell2mat(get(h,'XLabel')), 'String');

Cheers

[Rajesh Rajaram]

It is a very nice option to add to matlab. It works great on a single plot.

However I am not sure how I could use it when I also need to use the linkaxes option to link multiple subplots.

[Dan Kominsky]

Very nice. This has been an annoying aspect of MatLab for some time. Thank you.

[Christophe Lauwerys]

Concerning your remark: the switching between different dateforms is desired behavior since, in my opinion, the resolution of the ticks should increase when zooming in.

[F Moisy]

Very useful, thanks!

One remark: it seems that datetickzoom uses the input argument dateform=0 by default, even if a second input argument is given. For instance, datetickzoom('x',1) should display labels in the form 'dd-mmm-yyyy' whatever the zoom. Instead, it automatically switches between different dateforms when zooming.