Zoom Adaptive Date Ticks

Make date ticks adapt to zooming

Description

% ZOOMADAPTIVEDATETICKS - Make date ticks adapt to zooming
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('on')
% Turns on the automatic adaptation of date ticks
% to user zooming for the current figure window
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('off')
% Turns off the automatic adaptation of date ticks
% to user zooming for the current figure window
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% zoomAdaptiveDateTicks('demo')
% Opens a demo figure window to play with

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

[Erik Stalberg]

Thanks Andreas! This tool is very useful and the code is very well written.
Erik Stalberg

[Les Beckham]

This is nice and should prove useful.

The 'demo' feature uses the 'today' function which, apparently, only ships with the Financial toolbox. If you replace the line
    dates = today - linspace(1169,0,15000)';
with
    dates = floor(now) - linspace(1169,0,15000)';

it will work without the 'today' function.

[Jeremy Almeter]

This function is very useful. It is short, simple, and makes the graphs easier to read.

[Richard Stephens]

This is just what I've been looking for!
Thanks.

[Hans Martin Aannestad]

Thank you so much for this! I have struggled with 'manual mode' and updating date vectors for ages, this is such a simple and elegant solution.

[Ryan Moffet]

 

[Stijn de Waele]

Useful script! For multiple axes with linked time axis, I have modified the code to:
function adaptiveDateTicks(figureHandle,eventObjectHandle)
% Resetting x axis to automatic tick mark generation
ax=findall(figureHandle,'type','axes');
arrayfun(@(x) set(x,'XTickMode','auto'),ax)
% using automaticallly generate date ticks
arrayfun(@(x) datetick(x,'x','keeplimits'),ax)

[lflorhid]

Very, very useful.. thank you very much