expandAxes

Sets all axes in the handle list to expand in a new figure on buttondown.

Description

FUNCTION EXPANDAXES(HNDLS)

Allows you to click on any axes (or child thereof) in the list of input handles. Left-clicking will popup a new window in the position of the original, filled with the single axes and all its children. Clicking on that figure closes the popup window. (Right-clicking restores non-expanding status to the axis.)

SYNTAX:
expandAxes
     Sets the current axes to expand on buttondown.
  
expandAxes(hndls)
     Sets all axes in the input list of handles to expand on buttondown.

NOTE: This function modifies the BUTTONDOWNFCN of axes in the input list, and their children. However, it will not modify any object whose buttondownfcn is nonempty.
 
MOTIVATION:
In real estate, there's a saying: "Location, location, location." In computer graphics, the saying is (or ought to be): "Real estate, real estate, real estate." This function allows you to show a lot more plots, graphics, etc. in a single figure without sacrificing the ability to see larger versions of same.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)

[Olivier B.]

Simple but very usefull when managing lot of subplots !

[Bob Rooney]

Perfect! Thanks alot.

[John D'Errico]

A creative way to turn a whole mess of plots into thumbnail images. Then you can click on only the ones you want to see to bring them up.

[Sergey Karpov]

Thank u!

[Adi]

Great gizmo.
Justa little remark. For those still using old Matlab 7.0 R14 I found that " @isempty " needs to be changes to " 'isempty' " in order to work. Good job, thanks.

[Brett Shoelson]

Thanks, Adi. For users of older versions of MATLAB, please note the single quotes around 'isempty' in Adi's comments.