maximize

Platform independent function to maximize a figure window.

Description

This function maximizes MATLAB figures on any platform. It takes a figure handle as input. Note: it doesn't simply resize the figure to fill the screen.

It uses Java, therefore doesn't contain any mex or OS specific code.

Acknowledgements

Find J Obj Find Java Handles Of Matlab Graphic Objects inspired this file.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Sauro Salomoni]

Ingenious function. Thank for the author!
Now I need to replace many years of using the ugly set(gcf, 'units', 'normalized', 'outerposition', [0 0 1 1])... :)

[dave]

 

[Joao Henriques]

Works as advertised, thank you!

[Lukas]

 

[Julián Francisco]

Hi. Your application does not work if the visibility of the figure is off before
calling the mazimize function. I am trying to find a function that maximize the figure window through a smoothed optical transition. Thank you for your attention. Best regards.

[Mohammed El-Said]

Works great,
Thanks for sharing...

[Craig]

Worked very nicely for me on Win7 with 64-bit R2010b. I use it together with export_fig to automatically and consitently save high quality figure output.

Many thanks Oliver!

[Oliver Woodford]

Joris: On the version of MATLAB I have I don't see this error with the latest version of maximize (updated 17th May 2010). Do you have the latest version? It specifically fixed the error you report.

[JdW]

I encounter one issue using your maximize.m function, namely maximize throws exceptions when figure is not yet ready. I include an example:

Example that throws exceptions:
h = figure; maximize(h);

Not so nice looking solution:
h = figure; pause(0.01); maximize(h);

[Heinrich Acker]

 

[Heinrich Acker]

It's nice to have a real maximize operation without rezising, calling executables or the like. There is one issue, however:

If there is no figure, 'maximize' causes exceptions and makes all subsequent figure or plot operations fail, until the graphic system is sort of reset, e.g. by 'close all'. Tested on R2007b.

[JdW]

Exactly what I whas looking for. I always did resizing to fill the screen, but this works so much nicer.

[Carsten Hoever]

 

[Oliver Woodford]

Sherif: I've tested this function under several different versions of Matlab and OS's, and it works fine on all of them. If it genuinely doesn't work for you then can I suggest you send me a much more detailed bug report (e.g. Matlab version & OS, error message etc.) via the Contact Author link on my Author page. Posting requests for help here isn't what this comments section is for.

[Sherif Elnabarawy]

i am wondering why all this code and functions for this simple thing , just need to maximize the gui automatically when loading , all codes and functions didn't work perfectly with me , any help ?
thanks a lot,
Sherif Elnabarawy.